Optimization in Design: The Foundation of Engineering 2.0

摘要

Suppose you could have all the simulation you wanted. Would it change the way you work? Would it change the decisions you make? Would your designs improve? With the technologies that are emerging, this may soon be the case. There are plenty of options. Just look at the hardware choices. On the desktop with today's workstations, you can get 16 cores, and even double that by using hyper-threading. You can network desktop workstations to get a few hundred cores working on your simulations. You can set up simulations on high-performance computing (HPC) servers and run hundreds and even thousands of cores, or you can run simulations by purchasing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on a contract where your core allocation is only limited by the money you are willing to spend. You could even simply get your simulation done as a cloud offering and pay as you use it. All of those choices have different affordability models.