Engineering's Compute Power Appetite is Insatiable

摘要

FOR YEARS, ENGINEERS NEEDED MORE and more compute power. More memory and compute power has been needed to open and manipulate huge 3D assemblies in CAD applications. More compute power has been required to solve increasingly large finite element analysis (FEA) models with thousands, or even millions, of degrees of freedom. Over the span of decades, the need for more compute power continuously grows. That, of course, has been driven by software providers exploring the very edge of what can be done.