DEM Solutions Implements EDEM Simulation Software onto SGI UV

DEM Solutions announced the implementation of EDEM Simulation Software onto SGI UV, the "Big Brain" computer, to deliver a large-scale bulk particle simulation using commercially-available DEM software. Leveraging the compute capabilities of the world's largest shared memory system, DEM Solutions' customers and EDEM users will be able to "realize the full potential of EDEM Software for simulation-based product design and optimization of equipment that handle or process bulk particles, such as powders, granules, tablets and aggregates," the company says.

"Bulk particles, also known as bulk materials or bulk solids, are handled and processed in every major manufacturing and process industry, including, pharmaceutical, food processing, consumer packaged goods, mining, minerals processing, metals manufacturing, and construction and agricultural machinery," said John Favier, CEO and founder of DEM Solutions. "DEM simulation provides a real world level of detail of bulk particle behavior and interaction with equipment that surpass other CAE technologies, and as a result requires more data-intensive computing capability. SGI UV offers the large-scale computing capability required for data-intensive DEM simulation, and like our EDEM Simulation Software, offers a scalable and cost-efficient solution to support the increasing adoption of DEM as a key engineering technology by our blue chip customer base across the many process and manufacturing industries."

EDEM implemented on SGI UV is the industry's first large-scale shared memory parallel DEM simulation, on a scalable Shared Memory Parallel (SMP) computer architecture using commercially available DEM software, the company says. The initial implementation on an SGI UV running 128 cores and 2TB of memory enables a simulation of 10 million model elements with further scaling to larger models using bigger SGI UV architectures planned.

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