ANSYS Partners with Clemson University Center

By DE Editors

ANSYS, Inc.’s software will be deployed as the preferred solution for engineering simulation at the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS). The center’s charter is to foster commercial innovation in automotive and other “mobility” industries, such as aviation/aerospace, and energy.

“What makes our center unique is that we operate according to the private sector’s needs: meeting accelerated deadlines, significantly reducing overall design cycle times, focusing on complex challenges that involve entire systems—which require far greater computational resources—and performing high-fidelity analyses that bring together multiple physics in an iterative way to produce an optimal design,” said James Leylek, executive director of CU-CCMS.

The center is combining its organizational structure with dedicated supercomputing facilities and computational methods to help commercial organizations take product innovation to the next level.

CU-CCMS will use the multiphysics suite of software from ANSYS — which includes structural, fluid flow, heat transfer, electromagnetics, and other tools — to develop methodologies and demonstrate feasibility of simulations in key technology areas. The suite’s adaptive architecture enables software customization specific to project or industry, and its scalability on high-performance computing (HPC) systems will enable high-fidelity simulations and optimization approaches.

Software from ANSYS will be installed on the CU-CCMS high-performance computing facility, which includes a Linux cluster of Sun 6250 blades, with peak theoretical performance of 35 Teraflops on more than 3,440 processing cores and 14TB of RAM. This system, ranked as one of the world's most powerful computers on the latest “Top 500 Supercomputers” list, is carefully balanced to include servers with large RAM for pre- and post-processing, a 20 GBit/sec Infiniband network by Voltaire, and parallel I/O software and hardware by Panasas. The combined Sun HPC hardware and ANSYS software installation will allow CU-CCMS to address highly detailed simulations involving complex physical phenomena and explore the use of simulation for design optimization by industry. 

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.