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FEA Newsletter April 2007 APRIL 2 0 0 7 IN F O R M ATI O N WWW.FEAINFORMATION.COM MICROSOFT A Winning Combination LS-DYNA® and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) 2 0 0 7 A N S Y S U.S. Regional Conference Series: PENNSYLVANIA Linux Networx LS-1 Supersystems FEA INFORMATION RESOURCE MAGAZINE FeaInformation.com 1 Announcements: From FEA to MCAE Today - A 40-Year Personal Odyssey Based on the popularity of Part 1 From FEA to MCAE Today, we have made an edi- torial decision to bring you the complete article. To conserve space and pages in this issue we have opted to leave out sections. These sections will continue in the May edition. Wecome FEA Information Participants SUN Microsystems - HPC and Technical Computing Complete Article will appear in May Edition Cranes Software – INDIA – ETA Products – LS-DYNA and others “2nd ANSA & µETA International Congress” June 14-15, 2007, in Halkidiki, Greece. Sincerely, Art Shapiro [email protected] Marsha J. Victory [email protected] FeaInformation.com 2 Table Of Contents 01 Announcements 02 Table of Contents 03 AMD Benchmark Neon Refined 04 LS-DYNA® and Windows Compute Cluster server 2003 (CCS) 05 Featured AVI – Courtesy of Gaurav Nilakantan 06 carhs.training gmbh 07 LS-PrePost Update 08 LSTC Training Classes – April, May, June 09 TopCrunch Participant Listed Benchmarks 11 LS-DYNA and Other Worldwide Events 12 India News – Cranes Software International 13 Engineer’s Market Place 15 2007 ANSYS U.S. Regional Conference Series: PENNSYLVANIA -- Resource Pages will return in the May edition 19 Linux Networx Announces Performance Tuned Supersystems 21 From FEA to MCAE Today – A 40-year Personal Odyssey FEA Information Inc. & News: FEA Information News: Editor Art Shapiro Technical Writers: Graphic Designer Dr. David Benson Wayne L. Mindle Dr. Ala Tabiei Business Manager Uli Franz Trent Eggleston Suri Bala President Marsha J. Victory Writing Consultants: Steve Pilz – Reza Sadeghi FeaInformation.com 3 AMD Benchmark Neon Refined AMD LS-DYNA version 971 Benchmark AMD Marks AMD64 Anniversary With Widespread Availability Of New Highest-Performing AMD Opteron™ Processor Complete Press Release can be located on the AMD website: —AMD Also Updates ‘Barcelona’ Native Quad-Core Performance Projections— Sunnyvale, Calif. -- April 23, 2007 -- as the latest benchmark tests, based on Marking with the fourth anniversary of AMD Opteron Model 2222 and 8222 SE the launch of the AMD Opteron™ proces- processors can be found at sor and AMD64 technology, AMD www.amd.com/opteronperformance. (NYSE:AMD) today announced wide- spread availability and pricing for the “Today’s announcement further demon- performance-leading AMD Opteron Model strates AMD’s commitment to delivering 2222 and 8222 SE x86 dual-core server excellence and represents continued in- processors. The new processor, which is novation along the customer-directed available in several platform configura- path we blazed four years ago; we pro- tions today from tier one OEMs, is de- vide the complete x86 processor archi- signed to deliver performance leadership tectural standard others in the industry in the most critical server functions in- are trying to emulate and we have cluding Web serving, scalability and planned a seamless upgrade path to na- floating point calculations. tive quad-core for delivery to the market in mid-year,” said Randy Allen, corporate AMD also disclosed updated performance vice president, Server and Workstation projections for its upcoming native Business, AMD. “With our native quad- Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, core technology, AMD continues to build code-named ‘Barcelona.’ The new Barce- off of a consistent architecture and will lona projections are based on the latest deliver more than just four processing SPECcpu2006 benchmarks and show that cores. We believe our enhanced architec- AMD expects to have up to a 50 percent ture will deliver increased performance advantage in floating point performance and performance-per-watt without forc- and 20 percent in integer performance ing disruptive platform transitions. In- over the competition’s highest- vestment protection continues to be a performing quad-core processor at the central focus of our customer-centric de- same frequency. These results, as well sign principles.” FeaInformation.com 4 A Winning Combination LS-DYNA® and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) Trent Eggleston, FEA Information Inc. Excerpts from Reducing the Complexity of HPC for Simulations The complete article can be located on line in pdf format Calculating computationally intensive time to insight for a wide range of indus- problems on a single CPU can take tries and applications. CCS provides a hours, days, or even weeks. Performing powerful platform for HPC, while LS- the same calculations in parallel by using DYNA provides flexible simulation solu- cluster technology increases processing tion for finite element analysis. To- speed dramatically, and can save a pro- gether, users receive a simple to sue, ject valuable turnaround time. cost-effective, and robust parallel proc- essing solution for the simulation of Windows Compute Cluster server 2003 product testing and design that would (CCS) is a high-performance computing otherwise require large system and IT (HPC) platform that uses clusters of in- resources. dustry-standard 64-bit computers. It is simple to deploy and operate, allowing LS-DYNA combined with Microsoft Win- engineers and scientists to focus on the dows Compute Cluster Server’s high- science, and not the IT. performance computing platform pro- vides an accelerated solution for engi- The LS-DYNA® suite and Microsoft Win- neers, mathematicians, and designers in dows Compute Cluster Server 2003 ac- may industries. celerate calculations speed and reduce For More Information about Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003: Full Pdf: Reducing the Complexity of HPC for Simulations FeaInformation.com 5 LS-DYNA Featured AVI Complete AVI’s can be viewed at: www.feainformation.com – top bar link “AVI Lib” 92 988KB Fluid flow between containers, with a floating object 92a 477Kb Fluid flow between containers, with a floating object AVI’s are courtesy of G. Nilakantan U of Cincinnati FeaInformation.com 6 carhs.training gmbh Managing Director: Rainer Hoffmann [email protected] carhs.training Seminars and Events in Automotive Safety in summer 2007 All seminars are available as in-house seminars in English! 2007 12.-13. June Seminar+Workshop Pedestrian different trainers in coopera- Protection in Bergisch-Gladbach (in tion with BGS German) 14. June Vehicle homologation in Alzenau Wolfgang Wister, Magna-Steyr (in German) 19.-20. June Simulation of plastics and foam for Paul du Bois crash simulation in Alzenau (in German) 21.-22. June Objective measurement of seating Steffen Adler, Dr. Arnd Frie- comfort in Alzenau (in German) drichs, LWS Consulting 9.-10.July Design of Experiments in Alzenau Dr. Karl Siebertz, Ford (in German) 27.-28.June Introduction to passive safety of Dr. Alois Mauthofer, vehicles in München (in German) carhs.communication gmbh 25.-26. Sept. Grazer SafetyUpDate in Graz, Aus- different trainers in coopera- tria - New Date! tion with VSI/Prof. Steffan (in German and English) CONTACT: Rainer Hoffmann carhs.gmbh Siemensstr. 12 63755 Alzenau - Germany Tel. +49-(0)6023-964061 Fax +49-(0)6023-964070 [email protected] http://www.carhs.de FeaInformation.com 7 LS-PrePost® Online Documentation News www.lstc.com/lspp Copyright © 2007 LSTC 23-Apr - Added an updated User Guide and set of Examples for the BlockM Interface 19-Mar - Tutorial 17 added to online documentation (Intro to MetalForming Interface) Free Demo License of LS-DYNA, LS-Pre-Post and LS-OPT LS-PrePost® was designed to provide the following core functionalities: Full LS-DYNA® keyword support LS-DYNA model visualization LS-DYNA model creation and editing Advanced post-processing LS-PrePost's main post-processing capabilities include states result anima- tion, fringe component plotting, and XY history plotting. LS-PrePost is also capable of importing and exporting data in a number of common formats. The figure on the right illustrates a sampling of those that a typical user might find most useful. FeaInformation.com 8 LSTC California & Michigan Training Classes May – June - July A complete list of dates can be found on the LSTC website May 01-04 CA Introduction to LS-DYNA June 05-08 MI Introduction to LS-DYNA 12-13 CA Contact 14-15 CA Composite Materials 18-19 CA Material Modeling Using User Defined Options 26-29 CA Advanced – Impact Analysis July 11-13 CA Ale/Eulerian & Fluid/Structure Interaction 30-Aug 02 CA Introduction to LS-DYNA For Class Details: www.lstc.com FeaInformation.com 9 Participant Benchmarks On TopCrunch. TopCrunch.org For Complete Vendor Submitted Benchmarks Linux Networx/Scali, Inc. – March 21 Computer/ Processor #Nodes x #Proc- Time Benchmark Interconnect essors per Node (sec) Problem x #Cores Per Processor = Total #CPU LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 8 x 2 x 2 = 32 551 neon_refined SDR 5160 3.0GHz _revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 8 x 2 x 1 = 16 608 neon_refined SDR 5160 3.0GHz _revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 4 x 2 x 2 = 16 811 neon_refined SDR 5160 3.0GHz _revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 4 x 2 x 1 = 8 1127 neon_refined_ SDR 5160 3.0GHz revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 1499 neon_refined_ SDR 5160 3.0GHz revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 2 x 2 x 1 = 4 2172 neon_refined_ SDR 5160 3.0GHz revised LS-P/Infiniband Intel Xeon 1 x 2 x 2 = 4 2885 neon_refined_ SDR 5160 3.0GHz revised LS-P/Infiniband
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