Bull NovaScale® systems run CD-adapco's STAR-CD simulation software
Dresden,
June
28, 2006 -
CD-adapco and Bull have cooperated to offer the world renowned CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) solution STAR-CD on Bull's most innovative Intel® Itanium® 2 based NovaScale servers and clusters.
STAR-CD software is designed for engineers and researchers working in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and provides flow, thermal, and stress solutions in areas like automotive and aerospace aerodynamics, simulations of engine combustion, offshore/marine applications, or any other type of complex but important flow analysis. The STAR-CD solver provides one of the most effective numerical methodologies available in an industrial CFD code with the high level of accuracy needed for complex unstructured meshes. This power is delivered with the speed, efficiency and robustness demanded for practical engineering design and development cycles. Through a tight technical cooperation between Bull and CD-adapco's expert teams, it has now been ported and optimized to fit Bull NovaScale servers and clusters and has successfully passed all certification criteria.
Dennis Nagy, Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at CD-adapco, said: "CD-adapco welcomes Bull as a new partner to support our industry-standard STAR-CD simulation solution. CFD is poised to make an even more significant strategic business impact than heretofore by allowing development engineers to do 'up-front' what-if studies and optimization of key components and systems. CFD is very computationally intensive but scales very well on HPC clusters. As clusters such as Bull NovaScale become more powerful and cost-effective, and as CFD methods get significantly faster (e.g., via CD-adapco's introduction of breakthrough polyhedral meshing/solving technology), the execution speed of meaningful simulations is now within the timeframe needed by product developers to gain meaningful insight into innovative 'outside-the-box' new product concepts that previously were too risky to even consider as their chosen new product designs."
Bull NovaScale servers are SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processor) systems built using modular blocks that can be easily combined in a single cabinet to provide SMP servers from 2 to 32 sockets. They can be further extended with industry standard interconnects like Quadrics or InfiniBand into powerful clusters. Bull NovaScale systems have already a very strong presence in the Research and Academic sectors with outstanding successes like Europe's most powerful supercomputer and fifth in the world installed at CEA, and is now entering the industry and manufacturing sectors with leading Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners like CD-adapco.
Jean-Francois Lavignon, Director of the Bull HPC Business Unit, said: "Bull is extremely pleased that CD-adapco has certified STAR-CD on our NovaScale platform making it a key addition to the growing portfolio of MCAE applications that take advantage of our servers and clusters capabilities. We already have installed customers like Pininfarina using STAR-CD on Bull NovaScale servers, and the floating point power of the Intel® Itanium®2 processor, the outstanding I/O capabilities and the scalability of the NovaScale line of servers and clusters will ideally complement STAR-CD software functionalities to offer to our industry partners a winning combination"
About CD-adapco: Your CAE Partner for Success
CD-adapco is the leading global provider of full-spectrum engineering simulation (CAE) solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer and stress, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, CAD-embedded CFD options, CAE consulting services and training. Its principal offices are in New York, London and Yokohama with subsidiary offices across the world. http://www.cd-adapco.com/
Contact
Amanda Batson - T: 02074716200 - F: 02074716201
amanda.batson@uk.cd-adapco.com
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
Bull is an Information Technology company, dedicated to helping Corporations and Public Sector organizations optimize the architecture, operations and the financial return of their Information Systems and their mission-critical related businesses.
Bull focuses on open and secure systems, and as such is the only European-based company offering expertise in all the key elements of the IT value chain.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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