Technical white paper HP reference architecture for small and medium enterprises Grow your Abaqus advantage with HP

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Scale your environment ...... 2 Realistic simulation driving competitive advantage ...... 2 HP and enable your innovation ...... 3 Scaling up your workstation environment ...... 3 Scaling out with HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure ...... 3 Scaling out with a HP ProLiant SL2500 Scalable System ...... 5 Sizing the cluster for Abaqus 6.13 ...... 6 Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit ...... 7 Value of SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA ...... 7 Confident expansion with HP and Dassault Systèmes ...... 7

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Scale your workstation environment

Advances in system design and management capabilities provide opportunities for workstation users to benefit from scaling. Scale up the existing workstation infrastructure by leveraging today’s multicore capabilities. Scale out the workstation infrastructure in the data center; simply add clusters to increase productivity and increase model fidelity. Either way, HP and Dassault Systèmes have recommended configurations for expanding your innovation capabilities.

Realistic simulation driving competitive advantage

Innovate to compete—the key role of CAE To gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, manufacturers have started to leverage the robust capabilities of realistic simulation to lessen dependency on physical testing and optimize product performance. Computer-aided engineering (CAE) and simulation modeling help companies deliver new and innovative products to market faster, face many challenges including globalization and cost pressures, and shorten development cycles.

Leading technology for realistic simulation with Abaqus The Abaqus product suite from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand offers powerful solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems. A wide range of industries—including aerospace, automotive, consumer packaged goods, energy, and life sciences—use the proven Abaqus technology to explore and improve the real-world physical behavior of products and materials.

Small and medium enterprise challenges in the context of product design As suppliers to major corporations, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) drive up to 80 percent of the industry’s product design. However, these organizations face cost and productivity pressures that constrain their simulation capabilities.

Cluster starter kit for Abaqus The HP BladeSystem provides a flexible infrastructure that can be optimized for different workloads and user requirements.

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HP and Intel enable your innovation

To foster expansion of SME capabilities, the HP-Intel® Innovation Initiative seeks to simplify the user experience and enable the deployment and maintenance of the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The initiative works with business and technology partners, including Dassault Systèmes, to build an ecosystem that fosters the use of advanced simulation technologies by small and medium companies. This ecosystem delivers community outreach and provides access to relevant technology and expertise, such as starter kits and innovation hubs. The optimized recommendations for Abaqus described in this datasheet were developed with support from the Innovation Initiative.

Scaling up your workstation environment

When you analyze designs using sophisticated simulation tools, you need a workstation that delivers extreme performance, reliability, and expandability. You’ll find all of these capabilities in the HP portfolio. HP Workstations deliver the multi-core processing performance and large memories you need to accelerate complex simulation and analysis applications. HP Z Workstations are designed to keep Intel processors within their temperature specification so that you can take full advantage of Intel Turbo Boost Technology. The HP Performance Advisor, an HP exclusive tool for performance optimization, makes it easy to identify correct BIOS settings, drivers, and application settings. HP Z820 Workstations now come with up to 24 cores (two Intel E5-2600 v2 processors) and up to 512 GB of memory, making the HP Z820 an ideal platform for all Abaqus applications.

Scaling up Abaqus with HP Z820 High-performance workstations with today’s multicore capabilities allow users to perform much more realistic simulations. Users can perform pre- and post-processing with Abaqus/CAE, and then, on the same system, run multiple Abaqus/Standard jobs. To support the workloads, we recommend the HP Z820 Workstation, configured as follows:

• Z820 Intel E5-2600 v2 dual processor • 64 to 96 GB memory • From 3 to 5 x 300 GB 15k rpm SAS for RAID0 (LSI card for hardware RAID) • 1 x SATA HDD with Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit • 1 x Quadro K2000 or K4000 Graphics • 1 x Tesla K20c GPU (recommended for Abaqus/Standard)

Scaling out with HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure

Within a 10U format, the HP BladeSystem c7000 chassis features up to 16 compute nodes, federated by a InfiniBand FDR network. To run the cluster, the compute nodes share all the necessary components—power supplies, fans, InfiniBand and GbE networking, onboard administrator, federated administration, and supervision interface—to the cluster. Most components are hot plug, so the c-Class infrastructure is easy to deploy; it is also easy to operate using the onboard administrator interface. The initial investment is minimal because the shared infrastructure needs to be deployed only once; then you can grow by populating the compute nodes slots as needed.

Cluster baseline (recommended configuration for SMEs) A typical cluster configuration allowing expansion up to 24 compute nodes would include the following base line:

• Head node to manage access to the cluster • GbE management network • 2 x HP BladeSystem c7000 chassis • 1 x top-of-rack InfiniBand switch (to federate the two chassis and the head node)

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The HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server equipped with the D2200sb storage extender supports up to 12 additional hot plug disks, making it suitable for Abaqus/Standard. In addition, the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server supports up to 24 cores (two, Intel E5-2600 v2 processors), 512 GB of memory, up to two hot plug disks, and InfiniBand connectivity, making it suitable for Abaqus/Explicit.

Easy cluster operations Cluster operation is made easier by using three components: HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO4), HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU), and Adaptive Computing Moab HPC Suite-Application Portal Edition—all available from HP with your cluster. As the supervision and provisioning interface sitting on a chip embedded in each HP ProLiant Gen8 server, HP iLO4 simplifies initial server setup, server health monitoring, power and thermal optimization, and remote server administration. With HP Insight CMU, you can monitor performance of each simulation job using an intuitive interface. HP Insight CMU is a widely used cluster manager solution, which combines provisioning, administration, and supervision features into one single simplified interface. The Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack provides access to the compute resources required for simulation-driven product design processes. Job submission, data exchange, and monitoring for applications are enabled. The pack includes Moab HPC Suite, as well as an Insight CMU Connector and Intel MPI. The optional Application Portal Edition provides easy single-point access to common technical applications, data, HPC resources, and job submissions.

Table 1. Recommended cluster configuration

Cluster baseline Ready for up to 24 compute nodes and two BladeSystem c7000 chassis, 10 KW per 42 rack

Head node One ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server with two Intel multicore processors, 2–16x SAS disks; 4 GB per core

Out of band administration One HP 2620-24G switch network

Console administration network One HP ProCurve2920-24G with 10 GbE uplink

High-speed network One IB FDR 36-port switch

42U rack, KVM, TFT —

BladeSystem c7000 chassis Two BladeSystem c7000 chassis, each with 8+2 redundant hot plug fans, one FDR Module, and 6X 2400 W Platinum InfiniBand Managed Switch hot plug power supply

Operating system 64-bit Linux

Cluster management HP Insight CMU

MPI Bundled with Abaqus 6.13

Job scheduler Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack with Moab HPC Suite, plus optional Application Portal

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Scaling out with a HP ProLiant SL2500 Scalable System

The HP ProLiant SL2500 Scalable System offers a very dense solution and power optimized with up to 4 independent 1U or 2 independent 2U HP ProLiant SL210t Gen8 hot-pluggable server nodes in a standard sharing the same chassis, to provide increased server uptime. Like standard rack servers, the SL2500 chassis is rear cabled and fits into 19-inch standard racks; it comes with to disks options in the front of the chassis: 12 large-form-factor (LFF) or 24 small-form-factor (SFF) drive.

Cluster baseline—recommended configuration for SMEs A typical cluster configuration allowing expansion up to 24 compute nodes includes the following base line:

• Head node to manage access to the cluster • GbE management network • 8 HP SL2500 chassis • 1 top-of-rack InfiniBand switch to federate the two chassis and the head node

Compute node types The HP ProLiant SL210t Gen8 configuration well suited for Abaqus/Explicit workloads features 1U per server, up to 24 cores (2 Intel ® E5-2600 v2), up to 512GB of memory, up to two hot plug disks and InfiniBand connectivity. The HP ProLiant SL210t Gen8 configuration well suited for Abaqus/standard workloads features 2U per server and up to twelve hot plug disks.

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Table 2. Recommended cluster configuration

Cluster baseline Designed for up to 24 compute nodes and eight SL2500 chassis, 10 KW per 22 rack

Head node One HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server with 2 –16 x SAS disks

Administration network One ProCurve2920al with 10GbE uplink (out-of-band and console)

High-speed network One InfiniBand FDR 36-port switch

22U rack, KVM, TFT —

HP SL2500 chassis Eight SL2500 chassis, each with 5 fans, and 2X 1200W platinum hot- plug power supply

Operating system 64-bit Linux

Cluster management HP Insight CMU

MPI Bundled with Abaqus 6.13

Job management Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack with Moab HPC Suite, plus optional Application Portal

Sizing the cluster for Abaqus 6.13

Abaqus/Standard compute node configuration • Compute nodes—8 compute nodes, each using two Intel processors – up to 24 cores per compute node – Two 300 GB SAS drives per compute node – RAM (see recommendations below)

• 12 hot plug disks • Nonlinear dynamics jobs, multiple-compute-node jobs – 2 GB/core for jobs with less than 2.5 million degrees of freedom (DOF) on two nodes, 2.5 million DOF to five million DOF on four nodes, or greater than five million DOF on eight nodes – 4 GB/core for above jobs if fewer nodes

• Linear dynamics jobs, single-compute-node jobs: – 4 GB/core

Abaqus/Explicit compute node configuration • Compute nodes—16 compute nodes, each using two Intel processors – Up to 24 cores per compute node – Two 300 GB SAS drives per compute node

• 2 GB/core; 8 x jobs > 100,000 elements or 16 x jobs < 100,000 elements

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“We are committed to working with HP and Intel to ensure Abaqus is able to exploit the benefits of a scalable HPC environment. We consistently find that customers who upgrade their HPC computing environment to 16 or more cores work more efficiently and consequently deliver more return on their investments to their organizations”

—Steve Levine, Sr. Director of Strategy, SIMULIA

Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit

Ideal solution for supporting static and low-speed dynamic events, Abaqus/Standard technology is designed to handle high- stress tests where highly accurate results are critically important. Abaqus/Standard is supported within the Abaqus/CAE modeling environment for all common pre- and post-processing activities. As a finite element analysis product, Abaqus/Explicit is particularly well-suited to simulate brief transient dynamic events such as consumer electronics drop testing, automotive crashworthiness, and ballistic impact. The ability of Abaqus/Explicit to effectively handle severely nonlinear behavior such as contact makes it very attractive for the simulation of many quasi- static events.

Value of SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified FEA

Delivering a scalable suite of unified analysis products, SIMULIA allows all users, regardless of their simulation expertise or domain focus, to collaborate and seamlessly share simulation data and approved methods without loss of information fidelity. SIMULIA’s Abaqus Unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite offers complete and powerful solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems across a vast spectrum of industrial applications. Best-in-class companies rely on Abaqus Unified FEA to consolidate their processes and tools, reduce costs and inefficiencies, and gain a competitive advantage.

Confident expansion with HP and Dassault Systèmes

Solutions for your Abaqus environment were designed by HP and Dassault Systèmes to enable successful expansion and improve productivity. Recommended configurations were developed and tested for optimal performance and operational efficiency. Factory integrated solutions are available from HP for rapid deployment.

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