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Working with ANSYS, Compute Cluster Server 2003 accelerates time-to-insight by providing an HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools. Prescriptive setup procedures simplify network configuration, remote loading of nodes using Remote Installation Services (RIS), node configuration, and security setup. The integrated Job Scheduler, which can be accessed via command-line interface or through several APIs, provides for submitting and managing cluster workloads. CCS uses Active Directory integration to provide end-to-end user and security management, while the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) supports extensible snap-ins and integration with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Microsoft’s development platform, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, supports parallel application development and debugging on Compute Cluster Server 2003.
Distributed ANSYS: Parallel Power from Multi-Core to Clusters With Distributed ANSYS, part of the ANSYS Mechanical HPC module, the entire solution phase runs in parallel including the stiffness matrix generation, linear equation solving and results calculations. Because each of the three main parts of the overall solution are running in parallel, the wall clock time is significantly reduced. On distributed hardware, the memory required also is distributed over multiple systems. This memory-distribution method allows you to solve very large problems on a cluster of machines with limited memory. With multiple processors, you can see significant speedup in the time it takes to run your analysis for both linear and nonlinear analyses. Revolutionary is the new Distributed PCG Lanczos solver, which allows for the quick extraction of eigenvalues and eigenmodes for very large models greater than 100 million degrees of freedom. In addition to the Distributed PCG Lanczos, Distributed ANSYS supports Distributed PCG and Distributed Sparse solvers. As always, Distributed ANSYS works equally well on both distributed memory and shared memory hardware. Multi-Processing Computer Environments
Memory Architectures Supported
Analysis Types Supported by Distributed ANSYS
Testimonials Alden
Research Laboratories
•Customer’s Industry/Products:
–Fluids flow engineering and environmental laboratory, providing analytical, computational, and physical flow modeling services
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Customer Need:
–“We
needed to increase our computing power, in order to increase the number of
FLUENT simulations we perform and in order to consider larger, more detailed
models,”
–Dan
Gessler, Director of Numeric Modeling
“The ability to deploy a cluster using Windows Compute Cluster Server was very attractive to us, because it leverages our expertise and fits into our current computing environment. The deployment was quite smooth: we had our cluster up and running FLUENT within two weeks. The integration of FLUENT with the Microsoft Job Scheduler is especially valuable, giving us the ability to manage and monitor multiple simulations on the cluster”.
– Charles Ulrich, IT Manager, Alden Research Laboratory Inc.
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German
Federal Armed Forces
•Customer’s Industry/Products:
–Technical
Center for Protective and Special Technologies (WTD 52)
•Customer Need:
–Customer
needed to reduce solution time for blast analysis
–Strong
demand for increasing complexity and size of building structures
"By conducting these AUTODYN simulations prior to the physical test, WTD 52 is able to reduce the number of costly tests and to enhance the quality of the experimental investigations. As a result, time and cost savings can be achieved in most cases.”
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Michael Klaus, Deputy Director WTD 52
–Rockwell
Collins, EMS, Irvine, CA.
•Customer’s Industry/Products:
–Designs
and manufactures defense systems and commercial products such as
actuation systems, aircraft control mechanisms, missile systems.
•Customer Need:
–Customer
needed faster solve times and the ability to solve large problems
–Millions
of degrees of freedom in a reasonable amount of time.
“ANSYS parallel processing has been a key enabler for our simulation group. We are now tackling jobs that we simply wouldn’t have before by moving towards complete system level analysis from single component analysis. The analysis team is now responding to the design team much faster with accurate results from ANSYS!”
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Jason Longstaffe, Principal Engineer
Read more: Bringing High-Performance Computing to the Mainstream Director, High Performance Computing Group, Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A
Mechanical Modeling Made Faster, Cheaper, Easier Microsoft WCCS Designing accurate liquid and gas flow simulation ANSYS Fluent Microsoft WCCS |
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