CFdesign + HPC = Performance Leap

摘要

For most engineers, performance claims for cluster computing have been like Bill Gates' money or LeBron James' basketball ability: fascinating, but at the outer limits of the imagination. But after years of extraordinary results in the experimental realm, high-performance computing (HPC) is becoming a reality for the everyday engineer. At least it has for Cornell Pump Co.rnThe more than 50-year-old company, based in Clackamas, OR, has seen a 100X performance increase in its upfront CFD simulations using real models. The performance is made possible by a combination of new HPC and motion modules available for CFdesign simulation software and cluster computing configured by R Systems on Windows HPC Server 2008.