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SOUTHPOINTE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 23, 2009--
Two HPC systems, totaling 76 server nodes with 576 cores, are being
deployed to support today’s increasingly compute-intensive engineering
simulation workloads. The systems include 28 HP ProLiant DL 165/160
server nodes located in the United States and 48 HP ProLiant BL465c
blade server nodes in
The HPC systems provide ANSYS with the capacity and throughput needed
for support of large-scale industrial problems being addressed by a wide
range of ANSYS customers. “As our user community demands more and more
from simulation, we implement greater depth and breadth into our
multiphysics technology, which together provides functionality that
mirrors the real world. These improvements require more computational
resources. Today’s state-of-the-art systems are handling simulations of
a size that we could not even imagine a few years ago. It is a critical
area for continued research and investment by ANSYS,” said
“Customers in the computer-aided engineering field are demanding
high-performance computing systems that reduce the turnaround time of
product development to maintain a competitive advantage in the
marketplace," said
Current engineering simulation problems can involve whole systems, meaning increasingly larger model sizes as product development teams include more geometric detail and consideration of full CAD assemblies. In addition, high-fidelity representation of complex physical phenomena — including time-varying treatment of turbulence, aero-acoustics, vibration and multiphysics — has dramatically increased the demand for computing capacity to support engineering simulation. HPC systems are essential to provide the capacity required for large models and to achieve the turnaround time required for engineering decision making, reducing tasks that might have taken weeks or months to days or mere hours. With shortened turnaround times, engineers have more bandwidth to conduct simulation studies on multiple design points instead of conserving simulation horsepower and development time for one portion of the design puzzle.
The HP clusters deployed by ANSYS are being used for software tuning and performance testing, using large-scale industrial simulation workloads. “The new systems underscore our strong technical and commercial involvement with HP and provide us with outstanding ability to support our mutual customers. We expect the demand for large-scale simulation to grow, and these additional resources position us to ensure that we have the infrastructure and the foresight to drive areas of future opportunity for our customers,” Cashman added.
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