Information JULY FEA 2009 www.feainformation.com Engineering Journal and Website Resource
Karagozian & Case (K&C) Concrete model in LS-DYNA (i.e., MAT_072)
The 11th Int’l LS-DYNA® Users Conference
High Performance
Computing
HPC
Global
Turkey India India Bogazici Univ. Oaysis EASi
Dr. Sami A. Kilic Oaysis Team EASi Team Selcuk Altay 1 Announcements
Welcome to:
Karagozian & Case: Founded in 1945 providing a unique and highly technical set of skills by providing engineering services for the design and analysis of structural and mechanical systems subjected to blast and shock effects.
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Dr. Sami A. Kilic, of the Dept. of Earthquake Engineering, at
the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute
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02 Table of Contents 03 LSTC – 11th International LS-DYNA® Users Conference 04 High Performance Computing Part 1 06 Karagozian & Case – Consulting And Designs 08 LSTC & ETA – Alliance Relationship 09 ETA – ACP Process 10 Dr. Sami A. Kilic 14 Educational Community 15 PrePost Processing/Model Editing 16 Software & Hardware Alliances 18 SPM & MPP - OS 19 Participants 20 LS-DYNA distributors 21 FEA Consulting 22 July Editor’s Choice Publications 23 Training Courses 24 Conferences/Events/News Publications 25 Employment – Recently Hired 26 Software Solutions - India 27 Press Releases Announcements 38 Informational Websites
2 The 11th International, ® LS-DYNA Users Conference
June 06-08, 2010
Hosted by Livermore SoftwareTechnology Corp.
To be held at The Hyatt Regency Dearborn, MI
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Due: email abstract to: [email protected] Notification:
December 4, 2009 subject line for e-mail – January 22, 2010 Abstract LS-DYNA Conference 2010
Paper Deadline: Conference Papers: The presenter of each accepted paper will receive March 05, 2010 free admission to the conference, provided that the presenter registers for a room at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn under LSTC Conference registration
Application Areas Being Accepted for Paper Submission:
Aerospace Heat Transfer Seismic Engineering Automotive Crashworthiness Impact and Drop Testing Ship Building Ballistic and Penetration Manufacturing Processes Transportation Biomechanics Metal Forming Virtual Proving Ground Civil Engineering Modeling Techniques Compressible Fluid Dynamics Nuclear Applications Electro Magnetics Occupant Safety
Abstract Length: Approximately 300 words, please include figures, if possible Paper Length: Maximum of 3000 words, single-spaced, on 8-1/2” x 11” paper Format: A MS Word template will be provided Contact: [email protected] ______Livermore Software Technology Corp. (925) 449-2500 www.ls-dynaconferences.com
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High Performance Computing HPC
Part 1 July Intro Part 2 (Sept)
other information to the engineering High-performance computing (HPC) uses community. supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. The TOP500 project ranks and details the The future is power – connections – faster 500 most powerful known computer but accurate results. The importance of systems in the world. The project was I/O performance and their connectivity started in 1993 and publishes an updated possibilities bring to the arena a multitude list of the supercomputers twice a year. of possibilities. A balance of Architecture, The following is from their June 2009 list. CPU power, Compilers, Clusters, large and A follow up list will be designated for small workstations, and software able to September. take advantage of the process is the future. Listing will be published monthly until next Top500 update for CRAY, DAWNING, Our current website in its beginning stage HEWLETT-PACKARD, FUJITSU, NEC. The is www.hpcservers.com - please feel free full list can be viewed on their site. to send publications you wish posted and {www.top500.org}
Rank Site Computer/Year Vendor Cores Rmax Rpeak Power
Oak Ridge National Jaguar - Cray XT5 QC 2.3 2 Laboratory 150152 1059.00 1381.40 6950.60 GHz / 2008 – Cray Inc. United States
Nat. Institute for Comp. Kraken XT5 - Cray XT5 QC 6 Sci./Univ. of Tennessee 2.3 GHz / 2008 66000 463.30 607.20 United States Cray Inc. Franklin - Cray XT4 NERSC/LBNL 11 QuadCore 2.3 GHz / 2008 38642 266.30 355.51 1150.00 United States Cray Inc. Oak Ridge National Jaguar - Cray XT4 12 Laboratory QuadCore 2.1 GHz / 2008 - 30976 205.00 260.20 1580.71 United States Cray Inc.
4 Rank Site Computer/Year Vendor Cores Rmax Rpeak Power NNSA/Sandia National Red Storm - Sandia/ Cray Red 13 Laboratories Storm, XT3/4, 2.4/2.2 GHz 38208 204.20 284.00 2506.00 United States dual/quad core / 2008 - Cray Inc. Magic Cube - Dawning 5000A, QC Shanghai Supercomputer Opteron 1.9 Ghz, Infiniband, 15 Center 30720 180.60 233.47 Windows HPC 2008 / 2008 - China Dawning EKA - Cluster Platform 3000 Comp. Res. Lab., TATA 18 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, 14384 132.80 172.61 786.00 SONS - India Infiniband /2008 Hewlett-Packard Nat’l Inst. for Comp. Athena - Cray XT4 QuadCore 2.3 21 Sci./Univ. of Tennessee GHz / 2008 17956 125.13 165.20 888.82 United States Cray Inc. Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Simulator - Earth Simulator / 22 Earth Science and 1280 122.40 131.07 2009 - NEC Technology - Japan Swiss Sci. Comp. Center Monte Rosa - Cray XT5 QC 2.4 23 14740 117.60 141.50 (CSCS) - Switzerland GHz / 2009 - Cray Inc. Fujitsu FX1, Quadcore SPARC64 JAXA 28 VII 2.52 GHz, Infiniband DDR / 12032 110.60 121.28 Japan 2009 - Fujitsu Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Government Agency 30 Xeon 53xx 2.66GHz, Infiniband / 13728 102.80 146.43 Sweden 2007 - Hewlett-Packard Chinook - Cluster Platform 4000 Pacific Northwest National DL185G5, Opteron QC 2.2 GHz, 34 Laboratory 18176 97.07 159.95 Infiniband DDR / 2008 - Hewlett- United States Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL2x220, IT Service Provider 35 E54xx 3.0 Ghz, Infiniband / 2009 Germany Hewlett-Packard
5 Consulting And Designs
Meeting the Extremes of Tomorrow's World
Karagozian & Case was founded in 1945 providing a unique and highly technical set of skills by providing engineering services for the design and analysis of structural and mechanical systems subjected to blast and shock effects.
Project: Develop a Project: Develop barrier that can conventional design effectively prevent drawings and damage to a facility specifications for behind it where a constructing several large bomb was to buildings at
detonate next to the Children's Hospital
barrier of Los Angeles.
The skills of the Karagozian & Case engineering staff are focused in five complementary areas:
Design/Analysis relating to Blast, test specimens for blast and shock effects Shock, and Impact Loads tests. K&C specializes in engineering design that Risk Assessment/Mitigation reduces the threat and effects from blast K&C provides clients with risk assessment loads, high-velocity impacts (e.g., from and mitigation studies associated with vehicles and bullets), and shock loads. blast effects and high-velocity impacts. K&C also offers validation testing of These studies define the site specific existing blast and impact resistant threats and vulnerabilities, cite mitigation designs, and advanced computational measures and their cost, and enable structural dynamics analysis that clients to understand their risks and simulates the actual responses that occur options pursuant to the countering of in blast and impact events. Design threats terrorist, explosive, and other similar include terrorist bombings, accidental threats. Assessments are performed with explosions, and high velocity impacts. In K&C's own assessment tools. The highly addition, for over four decades, K&C has visual style of our results presentation provided designs and performed blast greatly aids the client in understanding effects tests of hardened military the issues involved. Our extensive structures to resist damage from both experience with blast and impact testing conventional and nuclear weapons. We of components and systems and the have designed numerous test fixtures and 6 design of blast-resistant systems has resistant designs to integrate smoothly enabled K&C to deliver proven mitigation with conventional designs. concepts that are both practical and Research and Development innovative, at realistic costs. K&C is one of the leading institutions in Perimeter Defense Design and the world in providing research and Analysis development services to the Government K&C offers a comprehensive array of and product manufacturers related to the perimeter security services, catering to development of blast and shock resistant Government and private interests both in devices and technologies. K&C uses high- the U.S. and abroad. We have designed, fidelity physics-based (HFPB) modeling tested, and implemented complete techniques to perform blast/impact effects defense systems that include features analysis for develop designs and devices such as vehicle barriers, fences, walls, for blast and impact resistance. K&C gates, entry control facilities, and forced developed and implemented the physics- entry construction. K&C assists clients based concrete model that is available in with all key aspects of design and LS-DYNA (i.e., MAT_072) for performing deployment, a process that begins with blast and impact effects anslysis of site-specific threat definition analysis and reinforced concrete structures. a vulnerability assessment, following with For Information Contact: functional requirements definition, and finally, system selection. Our advanced Shengrui Lan, Ph.D. understanding of dynamic response Karagozian & Case analysis and impact effects modeling allows us to design systems compatible 2550 N. Hollywood Way, Suite 500, Burbank, CA 91505, U.S.A with such factors as historical preservation and architectural constraints, but without Phone: (818) 240 4199; sacrificing protective capabilities. As an DID: (818) 303 1268; example, K&C is the only private Fax: (818) 240 4966 consultant to have conceptualized, E-mail: [email protected] designed, and physically tested barrier http://www.kcse.com ht systems capable of stopping vehicles weighing up to 65,000 lbs and traveling at speeds of up to 60 mph. Conventional Structural Engineering Design K&C also provides conventional design packages for commercial and industrial projects. Much of this work is related to retrofitting existing facilities for expanding their capacity or upgrading their strength. This experience in conventional design is highly useful when interfacing our blast- resistant design work with an existing structure or the work of conventional structural engineers, which allows our 7 Alliance Relationship ETA & LSTC
A Solid Past A Strong Future
A strong engineering future is forged by manufacturing solutions. Many many factors, among them being: design concepts under multiple load conditions are evaluated Business relationships bringing the simultaneously, but are not initiated engineering community a solid base until a concept that meets all of the of solutions. design and manufacturing targets Technical support for support emerges. questions and the immediate ability The optimized concept is then to contact the main developers with designed, analyzed and optimized specific expertise. using loading, manufacturing, Software solutions geared toward material and cost constraints. Upon the future with price affordability, completion, the resulting CAD data accuracy, robustness and the is generated for an ideal capability to run on the High production-ready design. Performance Super Computers, http://www.eta.com without add on pricing structures. Livermore Software Technology ETA and LSTC are two solid based Corporation (LSTC ) companies continuing to build on their Headquartered in California and past 15 year business relationship: Michigan based office offering Support, Development and Training. Engineering Technology Associates LSTC continues to rapidly develop (ETA) the solver LS-DYNA, with features Headquartered in Michigan. requested by customers, and ETA continues to offer the LS-DYNA knowing future capabilities that will solver with its two flagship products be needed. To meet the growing eta/DYNAFORM and eta/VPG. needs of its LS-DYNA customer Additionally ETA utilizes the LS- base LSTC includes at no additional DYNA solver in its engineering add on fees: consulting work and its advanced LS-PrePost product development methodology, LS-OPT the Accelerated Concept to Product Barrier Models (ACP) Process. Dummy Models The ACP process incorporates the use of multiple CAE tools including modeling, application specific, solver technology, optimization and 8 ETA Achieves Significant Weight Reduction with ACP Process
Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) recently announced its performance-driven product development technique, the Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) process
This procedure has revolutionized and emerges. The optimized concept is then streamlined the product development designed, analyzed and optimized using process, through optimization led design. loading, manufacturing, material and cost The performance-driven development constraints. Upon completion, the process relies heavily on simulations to resulting CAD data is generated for an meet timing and budget targets, whereas ideal production-ready design. the traditional processes have been built There are many advantages to using ETA’s around a build-test philosophy. ACP process, including the ability to The holistic, topology multi-disciplinary disregard underlying assumptions that can (MD), 3G (geometry, grade, and gage) inhibit the design. Additionally, the design optimization solution was applied optimum load path is unconstrained by to significantly reduce mass for the historical engineering judgment. Most Auto/Steel Partnership’s Future importantly, it also allows for non-intuitive Generation Passenger Compartment solutions for structural performance and (FGPC) Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Validation), can generate non-intuitive optimized as well as for World Auto Steel’s Future shapes and component configuration. Steel Vehicle (FSV) Pilot Project. Comprehensive goals are achievable using Mass reduction was 30% for the the ACP process as CAE/CAD designs passenger compartment in Phase 1, 15% change simultaneously, maximum mass in phase 2 and 45% over the original reduction is possible, design robustness donor vehicle’s geometry for FSV. For the and efficiency can be significantly FSV project, a “clean sheet” approach was improved, the number of components in a utilized, meaning that the new design was system or sub-system can be reduced and not based on existing geometry, rather manufacturing efficiency can be achieved the design was completely generated (labor, material, tooling). Additionally, using MD-3G techniques. highly optimized and advanced solutions can be applied in both a linear and non- The ACP process incorporates the use of linear environment. The ACP process has multiple CAE tools including modeling, unlimited potential and will be applied in a application specific, solver technology and variety of industries for structural product optimization solutions. Many design development. Information: concepts under multiple load conditions are evaluated simultaneously, but are not Akbar (248)729-3010 initiated until a concept that meets all of the design and manufacturing targets 9 Educational Global Connections
July we are pleased to feature Dr. Sami A. Kilic, of the Dept. of Earthquake Engineering, at the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute
Parallel computing with LS-DYNA along the Bosporus Straits at Bogazici University
History of Robert College On September 16, 1863, Robert College opened its doors to students with Robert College was founded in the city of Dr.Cyrus Hamlin as its first President, and Istanbul (then called Constantinople at the offered Bachelor of Arts Degree to its time) during the rule of the Ottoman graduates. The Robert College School of Empire by Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, an educator, Engineering was established in 1912. The inventor, technician, architect and builder, Robert College Foundation went into and by Mr. Christopher Rheinlander financial trouble in the late 1960s. The Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a College was passed on to the Republic of wealthy merchant from New York. Turkey as a resolution to encourage the Initially Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, an ingenious establishment an independent Turkish New Englander of versatile talents, came University as a successor to Robert to the Ottoman Empire in 1839 to start a College. On 10 September 1971, Bogazici seminary school for boys, where he taught University was officially established on until 1860. Dr. Hamlin met Mr. Robert in what had been the Robert College Campus 1856 during the Crimean War with Russia. for over one hundred years. As Mr. Robert's steamer was pulling into The Observatory History the Port of Istanbul, he noticed a boat full of delicious looking white bread. Mr. The Observatory in Istanbul was founded Robert found out that this bread had been in 1868 in the old Pera district during the baked by Dr. Cyrus Hamlin for the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The first wounded British soldiers hospitalized at systematic meteorological, seismological, the Selimiye Barracks near the Uskudar and even gravimetrical type of district of Istanbul. Subsequent meetings geophysical observations in the Ottoman of these two men, oddly enough both of Empire were carried out at the Istanbul Huguenot descent, brought about the Observatory. The political turmoil of 1909 founding of the oldest American College shut down the activities of the established outside of the United States. Observatory. Mr. Fatin Gokmen, who was 10 one of the Turkish pioneers of modern geophysical sciences, was charged with the task of reorganizing the Observatory. Mr. Gokmen relocated the Observatory Campus to the Kandilli distinct of Istanbul. The Kandilli Observatory started the systematic meteorological observations in 1911. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the defeat of WW I, the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923.
By the reorganization of the higher education of Turkey in 1982, the fates of Figure 1: View of the Bosporus straits Bogazici University and the Kandilli from the Department of Earthquake Observatory crossed each other. The Engineering of Kandilli Observatory. Kandilli Observatory was reorganized as a The main Bogazici University Campus is part of Bogazici University and offered located right across the Bosporus on the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geophysical hill seen on the right hand side of the Sciences. The Department of Earthquake photo. The modern high rises of the new Engineering as a branch of Civil financial district of Istanbul are also seen Engineering was established in 1989 and in the distance. As a popular waterway offered M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in serving the routes between the Black Sea Structural and Geotechnical Earthquake and the Mediterranean, the Bosporus Engineering. straits are populated with Romanian and Russian ships as well as others. The Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Dr. Sami A. Kilic Today the Observatory is called the Dr. Sami A. Kilic received his B.S. degree Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake in Civil Engineering from Bogazici Research Institute and serves as an University in 1989. He continued his Institute administered by Bogazici graduate studies at the University of University. A view from the Department of California at Berkeley (M.S. 1990) and Earthquake Engineering is shown in Figure Stanford University (Ph.D. 1997). He was 1. introduced to Dyna3D by his Turkish The Kandilli Campus is located in a very friend Hassan Yildiz in 1993, who was nice location in Istanbul overlooking the then a Ph.D. candidate at the Stanford Bosporus Straits and both suspension Aeronautical Engineering Department, bridges spanning the European and Asian which was enrolled in the Collaborator’s continents. program of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Upon return to Istanbul, Dr. Kilic joined the faculty at Bogazici University. He obtained his first LS-DYNA license from Dr. James Kennedy through KBS2 Co. in 1998. Dr. Kilic worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the Purdue University Computing Research Institute
11 during his sabbatical leave in 2003. He 6th German LS-DYNA Users Forum in was part of the Purdue University team Frankenthal, Germany, Dr. Kilic was that carried out the LS-DYNA simulation of introduced to the Microsoft CCS 2003 the aircraft crash into the Pentagon cluster operating system. A complete building structure during the 9/11/2001 solution was offered by Microsoft upon his events. Dr. Kilic returned back to Bogazici return to Istanbul. Figure 2 shows the University in 2004 and joined the faculty room where the computing cluster is at the Department of Earthquake located. Microsoft published a success Engineering at the Kandilli Observatory story about the cluster and it is available and Earthquake Research Institute. at the link below. The operating system of the cluster was upgraded to Microsoft HPC
2008 in September 2008. LS-DYNA & Parallel Computing
The advances in LS-DYNA and the growing complexity of modern day simulations brought up the necessity of parallel computing. Dr. Kilic applied for the funds offered by the TUBITAK Turkish Research Organization in order to set up a parallel computing cluster unit at the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute.
The LS-DYNA simulations at the computing cluster at the Kandilli Observatory range from blast effects on Figure 2: 4-node 32-core computing building structures within the context of cluster at the Department of Earthquake blast resistant design of structural Engineering at the Kandilli Observatory systems to modeling the seismic behavior and Earthquake Research Institute. The of the 1st century A.D. Roman pedestrian cluster cabinet is shown on the left, and bridge located in the ancient city of the two LCD monitors show the “Antioch” (nowadays called the city of LS-prepost screens for the blast “Antakya” as part of modern Turkey) built simulations (left) and the seismic behavior by the Emperor Titus of the Flavian of the Titus Bridge (right). The desktop Dynasty of the Roman Empire. computer on the very right serves as a The computing cluster consists of 4 HP domain controller for the computing brand DL360G5 rack server nodes with a cluster. The room enjoys a good view of total of 32-cores and 52 GB of RAM the Kandilli Campus. memory. The cluster was realized by the Dr. Kilic performed the physical setup of grant given by the TUBITAK Turkish the cluster room with the help of his Ph.D. Research Organization in 2007. After the student Selcuk Altay, who is working as a acquisition of the hardware for the Research Assistant at the Department of computing cluster, the problem of finding Civil Engineering at Bogazici University. a suitable operating system was solved by Figure 3 shows Dr. Kilic and Ph.D. student the Microsoft Corporation. The Linux Selcuk Altay at the Kandilli Observatory vendors in Turkey did not offer a complete Department of Earthquake Engineering. solution for the cluster. During the 2007 12 The establishment of the cluster and its continued use depends critically on motivated students. The cluster is also used by the Civil Engineering graduate students taking the “Nonlinear Structural Analysis” course offered by Dr. Kilic at Bogazici University. The students get hands on experience in using LS-Dyna on the parallel computing cluster. Today the cluster is actively used Figure 3: Dr. Sami A. Kilic and Ph.D. in teaching and research activities. candidate Research Assistant Selcuk Altay at the department of Earthquake Engineering at the Kandilli Obervatory and Earthquake Research Institute.
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Educational Community
Global Connections
July 2009 we welcome Dr. Sami A. Kilic with the Bogazici University
China USA
Tsinghua University Northwestern University Dr. Qing Zhou Dr. Ted Belytschko
India Univ. of California – San Diego Dr. David Benson Indian Institute of Science Dr. Anindya Deb Ohio University Dr. Bhavin V. Mehta Italy The Ohio State U – ERC/NSM Prode – Elasis & Univ. of Napoli, Dr. Taylan Altan Frederico II Prof. Gennaro Monacelli University of Cincinnati Dr. Ala Tabiei Russia University of Nebraska St. Petersburg State Tech. Prof. John D. Reid University Dr. Alexey I. Borovkov Connecticut State University Prof. Thomas Vasko Turkey
Bogazici University Dr. Sami Kilic
14 Pre Processing Post Processing
Model Editing
A preprocessor is a program that processes its input data to produce output. This data is then used as input to another program.
BETA CAE Systems S.A. Oasys, Ltd http://www.beta-cae.gr/ http://www.oasys- software.com/dyna/en/ Provides complete CAE pre- and post- processing solutions. ANSA, the world Oasys Primer is a model editor for wide standard pre-processor and full preparation of LS-DYNA input decks. - product modeler for LS-DYNA, with Oasys D3Plot is a 3D visualization package integrated Data Management and Task for post-processing LS-DYNA analyses Automation. μETA, a thriving innovative using OpenGL® (SGI) graphics. software with special features for the high performance and effortless 3D & 2D post- processing of LS-DYNA results. Japanese Research Institute, Ltd.
http://www.jri- Engineering Technology Associates, sol.co.jp/english/cae/ Inc. JVISION is a general purpose pre-post http://www.eta.com processor for FEM software. Designed to FEMB - Engineering Technology prepare data for, as well as support, Associates' Finite Element Model Builder various types of analyses, and to facilitate (FEMB) is a finite element pre- and post- the display of the subsequent results. processor for use with all major analysis codes and CAD Software. Livermore Software Technology Corporation http://www.lstc.com LS-PrePost is an advanced interactive program for preparing input data for LS- DYNA and processing the results from LS- DYNA analyses.
15 LS-DYNA® Resource ______Software & Hardware Alliances Software Solutions SMP/MPP Hardware & OS
MPP & Interconnect MPI
Software Solutions: Interfacing to, or have the LS-DYNA solver embedded within their product.
ETA – DYNAFORM OASYS software for LS-DYNA
Includes a complete CAD interface capable Oasys software is custom-written for of importing, modeling and analyzing, any 100% compatibility with LS-DYNA. Oasys die design. Available for PC, LINUX and PRIMER offers model creation, editing and UNIX, DYNAFORM couples affordable error removal, together with many software with today’s high-end, low-cost specialist functions for rapid generation of hardware for a complete and affordable error-free models. Oasys also offers post- metal forming solution. processing software for in-depth analysis of results and automatic report ETA – VPG generation.
Streamlined CAE software package ESI Group Visual-CRASH For DYNA provides an event-based simulation solution of nonlinear, dynamic problems. Visual-Crash for LS-DYNA helps engineers eta/VPG’s single software package perform crash and safety simulations in overcomes the limitations of existing CAE the smoothest and fastest possible way by analysis methods. It is designed to offering an intuitive windows-based analyze the behavior of mechanical and graphical interface with customizable structural systems as simple as linkages, toolbars and complete session support. and as complex as full vehicles. Being integrated in ESI Group’s Open VTOS, an open collaborative multi- disciplinary engineering framework, Visual-Crash for DYNA allows users to focus and rely on high quality digital models from start to finish. Leveraging this state of the art environment, Visual Viewer, visualization and plotting solution, helps analyze LS-DYNA results within a single user interface. 16 LS-DYNA® Resource ______
APTEK BETA CAE Systems S.A.– ANSA The MMCD is a graphics-based and menu- Is an advanced multidisciplinary CAE pre- driven program that interfaces with the processing tool that provides all the LS-DYNA library of material models and necessary functionality for full-model build the LS-OPT optimization code. The core of up, from CAD data to ready-to-run solver the MMCD is the driver, which calculates input file, in a single integrated the stress-strain behavior of material environment. ANSA is a full product models driven by combinations of strain modeler for LS-DYNA, with integrated increments and stress boundary Data Management and Process conditions, i.e. pure shear stress, and Automation. ANSA can also be directly combinations of uniaxial, biaxial, and coupled with LS-OPT of LSTC to provide triaxial compression and tension. MMCD an integrated solution in the field of input and output is accessed via pre- and optimization. post-processors; graphical user interfaces BETA CAE Systems S.A.– μETA (GUIs) for easily selecting the material model parameters and load histories, and Is a multi-purpose post-processor meeting for plotting the output in both two (stress- diverging needs from various CAE strain curves) and three (yield surfaces) disciplines. It owes its success to its dimensions. The pre-processor, driver, impressive performance, innovative and post-processor are combined into a features and capabilities of interaction web downloadable software package that between animations, plots, videos, reports operates seamlessly as a single code. and other objects. It offers extensive support and handling of LS-DYNA 2D and 3D results, including those compressed with SCAI's FEMZIP software
17 LS-DYNA® Resource ______Participant LS-DYNA® SMP & MPP Hardware and OS FUJITSU HP HP HP HP
Prime Power PA-8X00 IA-64 Opteron Alpha
SUN OS 5.8 HP-UX 11.11. HP-UX 11.22 Linux True 64 and above and above
INTEL INTEL INTEL NEC IA32 IA64 Xeon EMT64 SX6
Linux, Windows Linux Linux, Windows 64 Super-UX
MPP and Interconnect MPI
CRAY O/S HPC Interconnect MPI Software CX1 Windows HPC InfiniB MSMPI, HP MPI, INTEL Server 2008, Linux MPI XT5 Linux SeaStar2 Cray MPI XT5M Linux SeaStar1 Cray MPI
FUJITSU Prime Power SUN OS 5.8
HP PA8000 HPUX IA64 HPUX
INTEL IA32 Linux, Windows InfiniBand (Voltaire), MPICH, HP MPI, MyriCom OpenMPI IA64 Linux MPICH, HP MPI, OpenMPI Xeon EMT 64 Linux InfiniBand (Voltaire), MPICH, HP MPI, MyriCom, PathScale OpenMPI, INTEL MPI InfiniPath
NEC NEX SX6 Super-UX
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ESI Group: A software BETA CAE Systems S.A.: APTEK: Among the editor for the numerical Specialized in the software developed APTEK simulation of prototype and development of state of the develops an interactive for art CAE pre- and post- manufacturing process driving LS-DYNA material processing software engineering in applied systems. models mechanics
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Tutorials and Workshops Tutorials and Workshop Page Oasys LS-DYNA Environment
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Employment
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Recently Hired
Recently Hired
Joining EASi India
Mr. Jithesh Mr. Mrityunjaya R Yeli (Muthu)
Brief Introductions: Mr. Mrityunjaya R Yeli, Mr. Jithesh: Muthu has done his Masters in Computer Aided Design of Structures (Gold Jithesh did his Masters in Tool Engineering medalist) and bachelor degree in Civil and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. Engineering. He has nearly 5 years of experience in He worked as project trainee in Indian directly supporting LS-DYNA users in Space Research Organization for couple of India. years in Mechanical Integration Division. Please feel free to reach him @ Email: He was with engineering service division [email protected] of EASi Technologies past 2 years working Hand Phone No. : +91 9972017577 on CAE projects and now laterally moved to Technology Support Team
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Introduction to our new section:
India
© A. Giaccana, 2009 [email protected]
In our September issue we will focus on individual software solutions developed by: LSTC, US ETA, US EASi Engineering - India OASYS, UK BETA CAE, GR
At this time we would like to introduce (in alpha order) two distributors and part of their management – sales - support team Nhance Engineering(ARUP)
Left to Right
Trivikram Nanjangud, EASi Konstantinos Kiouptsidis,Beta CAE Systems Rajshekar Deosur, EASi Ramesh Venkatesan, EASi Konstantinos Kiouptsidis, Beta CAE Left to Right: Systems Brian Walker-Associate Director Komala Ramu Prasad NadiPalli-Director Vasantha Sural, EASi Lavendra Singh-Manager(Sales) Jay Simha, EASi Maruthi Kotti- Application Specialist Vadivelu Kuppusamy, EASi Rohan Goud- Engineer Mrityunjaya R Yeli, EAS Shankar Venkat- Sr.Engineer
Richard Sturt-Director Future article will additionally focus on Cranes India and CADFEM India
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Announcements & Press Releases
ETA - HP - Intel Panasas - Cray - Voltaire
Denton ATD and ETA Announce With this agreement, Denton is Distribution Agreement recognizing the customer’s need for a comprehensive sales and support network Troy, MI—A distribution agreement related to virtual Denton products and between Denton ATD and Engineering associated products. “We are delighted to Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA), be working with ETA who has given great allowing ETA to sell Denton Virtual support to Denton since its inception of Dummy products and support them this business segment. Having ETA act as through its VPG finite element modeling a distributor dramatically increases product, was signed July 10th. The Denton’s ability to meet the customer agreement linking Denton ATD, a global distribution and support demands which is leader in the development and a major priority associated with all Denton manufacture of advanced crash dummies product," comments Dave Stein, Denton and safety measurement devices, and ATD President and CEO. ETA, a leader in the field of virtual product development and engineering software is The agreement promises to greatly effective immediately. enhance ETA’s future product offerings for crash simulation and occupant safety The agreement will provide ETA, and its modeling. ETA President, Abe Keisoglou distribution network, the ability to commented, “This agreement will not only distribute the Denton virtual dummy bring our customers new opportunities to family as they are released over the next use state of the art dummy models in months. This agreement builds on the their simulations, but will also deliver technical cooperation agreement that was enhanced support, training and an signed between the two companies in opportunity to access Denton’s vast January of 2009. hardware and application knowledge.”
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About ETA
Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. has impacted the design and development of numerous products including automobiles, trains, aircraft, household appliances and consumer electronics. By developing software products that enable engineers to simulate the behavior of these products during manufacture or during their use, ETA has been involved in making these products safer, more durable engineers to simulate the behavior of these products during manufacture or during their use, ETA has been involved in making these products safer, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive to develop. More information about ETA can be found at www.eta.com. ETA is a subsidiary of Cranes Software international Limited (CSIL) within the Cranes Engineering group. For more information, please go to www.eta.com or call (248) 729-3010.
About Denton ATD
Founded in 1974, Denton ATD, Inc. is an engineering company driven to provide their customers with quality occupant safety products such as multi-axis load cells, crash test dummies, and dummy models based on extensive material research, testing, and innovative design. More information about Denton ATD can be found at www.dentonatd.com.
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Announcements______HP Acquires IBRIX Extend Scale-out Storage Capabilities to Global Customers http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/090717xa.html PALO ALTO, Calif., July 17, 2009
in the emerging market of scale-out and HP and IBRIX today announced a high-performance computing storage, definitive agreement for HP to acquire cloud storage, and fixed content archiving. IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise- This market is growing at a compound class file serving software that includes annual growth rate of 20 percent per data protection, high-availability features year,(1) which is faster than both the and data management services for network-attached storage and total extreme scale-out, cloud and high- external storage markets.(2) performance computing deployments. “Customers need highly scalable storage Customers with large-scale, data-intensive solutions that efficiently and cost- application environments find that storage effectively manage massive amounts of performance often becomes a bottleneck information,” said Jeff Hausman, vice for their workflows. IBRIX’s solutions allow president of Unified Storage, enterprises to easily and cost-effectively StorageWorks Division, HP. “This store massive amounts of user-generated acquisition expands our portfolio to better data. support the needs of this market segment. With scalability to tens of petabytes, In addition, IBRIX’s highly scalable customers can gain control of exploding software leverages industry-standard data growth and address application hardware allowing customers to fully performance challenges in the most maximize their existing investments.” demanding environments. The advanced IBRIX’s software is currently available data management capability of IBRIX’s with HP StorageWorks storage area Fusion software suite also allows networks (SANs), HP ProLiant servers, HP customers to seamlessly add capacity as BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve Ethernet their data or performance needs grow. switches and management software. The Founded in 2000, and an HP partner for combination of IBRIX’s storage software three years, IBRIX is privately held and with HP’s business technology portfolio headquartered in Billerica, Mass. It has 53 offers customers a full suite of products employees and more than 175 enterprise and services from design, transformation customers spanning the communications, and management of corporate data media, entertainment, Internet, oil and centers to the most extreme scale-out gas, healthcare, life sciences, and financial environments. services markets. The value of the transaction is not disclosed. Adding IBRIX’s software to HP’s portfolio further solidifies the company’s leadership 29
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“Joining forces with HP is a natural fit for ------our customers, resulting in an enhanced This news release contains forward-looking storage solution that scales to meet their statements that involve risks, uncertainties and data growth,” said Milan Shetti, chief assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties executive officer, IBRIX. “The unique materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, combination of IBRIX’s file serving the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or solutions with HP’s portfolio of products implied by such forward-looking statements and and services enables customers to lower assumptions. All statements other than statements the cost of scale-out architectures while of historical fact are statements that could be easing the process of storing, accessing deemed forward-looking statements, including the and moving critical data.” expected benefits and costs of the transaction; management plans relating to the transaction; the The transaction is subject to certain expected timing of the completion of the closing conditions and is expected to be transaction; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions completed within the next 30 days. underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties Following completion, the business will be and assumptions include the possibility that integrated into the StorageWorks division expected benefits may not materialize as expected; in HP’s Technology Solutions Group. risks related to the timing or ultimate completion of the transaction; and other risks that are described More information about HP StorageWorks in HP’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal is available at www.hp.com/go/storage. quarter ended April 30, 2009 and HP’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, About IBRIX including but not limited to HP’s Annual Report on IBRIX® develops, markets and sells scale-out NAS Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, products and solutions that help global enterprises 2008. HP assumes no obligation and does not to gain unprecedented control of unstructured data intend to update these forward-looking statements. growth and application performance challenges. © 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, IBRIX’s purpose-built scale-out NAS platform, IBRIX L.P. The information contained herein is subject to Fusion™, dramatically scales performance, capacity change without notice. The only warranties for HP and manageability to deliver significant storage cost products and services are set forth in the express savings, application performance improvement, warranty statements accompanying such products non-disruptive growth and infinite scalability. For and services. Nothing herein should be construed as more information, visit http://www.ibrix.com. constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions About HP: HP, the world’s largest technology contained herein. company, simplifies the technology experience for Editorial contacts: Eric Krueger, HP: consumers and businesses with a portfolio that [email protected] spans printing, personal computing, software, Kara Yi, Burson-Marsteller for HP: services and IT infrastructure. More information [email protected] about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.
(1) Based on internal HP estimates of compound annual growth rate. (2) Compared to percentages in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Forecast, June 2009
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Panasas, Inc.
Clemson University's Computational Center for Mobility Systems Deploys Panasas Storage to Advance Research for Automotive, Aviation, and Energy Industries
Panasas Storage Solution Drives Dramatic Performance Improvement to Accelerate Core Research for One of the Top 10 Most Powerful University Computer Systems in the U.S.
FREMONT, Calif. – June 23, 2009 – to decide on the Panasas system. We’re Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of solving the industry’s toughest high-performance storage for the world’s engineering challenges, and we needed most performance-intensive applications, dramatic simulation time improvements. today announced that the Clemson We’re confident that with Panasas, our University Computational Center for customers’ most mission critical Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) has chosen computer-aided engineering computations the Panasas ActiveStor™ parallel storage will scale to their full potential.” system to help accelerate its research and The CU-CCMS system consists of 430 Sun innovation. CU-CCMS is a comprehensive blade servers, with a total of 3,440 Intel computational engineering center Xeon processing cores and 14 terabytes dedicated to solving the most complex (TB) of memory. The system completed problems for the automotive, aviation, the LINPACK benchmark at 27.3 TFLOPS, and energy industries. CU-CCMS uses or 27.3 trillion mathematical computations massive-scale engineering simulation to per second, which ranks it among the help industry sponsors reduce world’s most powerful computer systems. development time, improve product The addition of Panasas technology quality and cost, and achieve success in resulted in substantially higher levels of the global marketplace. The center overall throughput due to the benefits of a operates one of the top 10 most powerful parallel file system and storage university supercomputers in the United architecture that enables accelerated input States, according to the November 2008 and output of simulation data. list of top 500 supercomputer sites (www.top500.org). “Our parallel storage is optimized to respond broadly to high performance “After an exhaustive search for a fully demands and in particular to large-scale integrated hardware-software solution to application environments,” said Randy take care of our parallel I/O storage need, Strahan, CEO, Panasas. “Working with we chose Panasas,” said Dr. James Leylek, CU-CCMS provides an extraordinary executive director of CU-CCMS. "The fact opportunity to enable world class research that some of our key clients provided engineers to test the outer boundaries of powerful, positive and convincing performance and help drive innovation in testimonials made it relatively easy for us the transportation and energy industries.” 31
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About Clemson University and CU-CCMS academic organizations accelerate their time to results, leading to real-world Clemson University is a nationally ranked breakthroughs that improve people’s lives. science and technology-oriented public Panasas high-performance storage research university known for its systems enable customers to maximize emphasis on collaboration, focus, and a the benefits of high-performance culture that encourages faculty and computers and clusters by eliminating the students to embrace bold ideas. Its storage bottleneck created with legacy teaching, research and outreach are network storage technologies. Panasas driving economic development and ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in improving quality of life in South Carolina conjunction with the PanFS™ parallel file and beyond. Clemson is a high-energy, system, offer the most comprehensive student-centered community dedicated to portfolio of high-performance storage intellectual leadership, innovation, service, solutions for compute-intensive and a determination to excel. For more environments. Panasas is headquartered information, visit in Fremont, California. For more www.clemson.edu/research information, please visit The Clemson University Computational www.panasas.com. Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) is Panasas, ActiveScale, DirectFLOW and a comprehensive computational PanFS are trademarks or registered engineering center dedicated to solving trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other problems for the automotive, aviation and trademarks are the property of their energy industries. Located at Clemson respective owners. University's International Center for Panasas, Inc. Media Contact Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), it provides unique and validated methods Susan Trainer that yield physically realistic results for a Trainer Communications diverse array of disciplines. Powered by a massive, dedicated high performance 925-964-9134 computing (HPC) system, CU-CCMS [email protected] supplies cost-effective solutions while efficiently converting ideas into products that will compete in the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.clemson.edu/cu-ccms. About Panasas Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage for the world’s most performance-intensive applications, helps commercial, government and 32
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Voltaire Ltd www.voltaire.com/NewsAndEvents/Press_Releases/press2009/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Tech nology_Selects_Voltaire_40_Gbps_InfiniBand_and_Unified_Fabric_Manager
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology UFM software helps us improve application Selects Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand performance and offer more efficient and Unified Fabric Manager™ service delivery in our multi-tenant cloud Software for Cloud Computing environment.” Research The HP supercomputer consists of 334 HP Voltaire’s New Grid Director™ 4700 ProLiant DL2x170h G6 and HP ProLiant Switches Interconnected with HP DL4x170h G6 servers based on the Intel Supercomputer Offers Extreme Scalability Xeon processor 5500 series and is and Ultra Low Latency for KIT interconnected with two Voltaire Grid Director 4700 switches. The Grid Director BILLERICA, Mass. and RA’ANANA , Israel – 4700 features 324 ports of 40 Gb/s July 13, 2009 – Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: InfiniBand connectivity, with the option to VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out double capacity to 648 ports using double- data center fabrics, today announced that density fabric boards. The double-density the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology fabric boards are the basis for the (KIT) has selected Voltaire 40 Gb/s HyperScale™ architecture, a unique InfiniBand switches and Unified Fabric stackable architecture for building larger Manager (UFM™) software for an HP configurations into the hundreds and supercomputer dedicated to cloud thousands of nodes, with lower latency computing research. KIT’s new and greater simplicity than alternative supercomputer will serve as one of the solutions. centers of excellence for Open Cirrus™, an open cloud computing research testbed To further optimize the supercomputer’s designed to support research into the performance and simplify management of design, provisioning and management of the large, multi-tenant fabric, KIT selected services at a global, multi-data center Voltaire’s new UFM software – the scale. industry’s first comprehensive management software that takes a fabric- “As part of the Open Cirrus™ project, wide view of the infrastructure to optimize KIT’s new supercomputer will build and performance. optimize cloud applications for use in data centers around the world,” said Professor Unlike other management software Rudolf Lohner, Karlsruhe Institute of platforms that are device-oriented and Technology. “We selected Voltaire’s Grid involve tedious manual processes, UFM Director™ 4700 40 Gb/s InfiniBand software provides IT managers with a switches because of the high performance logical view of their infrastructure. This and extreme scalability enabled by the bridges the traditional gap between switch’s double-density fabric boards. 40 servers, applications and fabric elements, Gb/s bandwidth coupled with Voltaire’s creating a more effective and 33
Announcements______business-oriented way to manage and more information about UFM software can scale out high-performance fabrics – be found at www.voltaire.com/ufm. especially critical for providing cloud About Voltaire services. Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading “KIT recognizes that the dynamic nature provider of scale-out computing fabrics for of cloud-based services requires a high- data centers, high performance computing performance, scale-out fabric that is and cloud environments. Voltaire’s family tightly coupled with a deeply integrated of server and storage fabric switches and management solution,” said Asaf Somekh, advanced management software improve vice president of marketing, Voltaire. performance of mission-critical “Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s InfiniBand combined applications, increase efficiency and with UFM software results in a uniquely reduce costs through infrastructure well-architected fabric that delivers top consolidation and lower power performance for KIT’s supercomputer as consumption. Used by more than 30 well as extended functionality, resource percent of the Fortune 100 and other management and deep insight into total premier organizations across many infrastructure activities for the cloud.” industries, including many of the TOP500 “IT researchers such as KIT need supercomputers, Voltaire products are maximum server performance to advance included in server and blade offerings the functionality and efficiency of cloud from Bull, HP, IBM, NEC and Sun and applications and services,” said Ed Turkel, provide the internal server-to-storage manager of business development, connectivity for the HP-Oracle Database Scalable Computing and Infrastructure, Machine. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is HP. “Together with Voltaire, HP is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and delivering the hardware and switching Billerica, Massachusetts. More information infrastructure KIT needs for scale-out is available at www.voltaire.com or by computing on a global level.” calling 1-800-865-8247. More information about Voltaire’s Grid Director 4700 is available at www.voltaire.com/GridDirector4700 and
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Announcements______CRAY http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol- newsArticle&ID=1308290&highlight=
provides far more performance, flexibility News Release Cray Expands Its Entry- and headroom for growth. The Cray CX1- Level HPC Offerings With the New LC supercomputer can place the dual Cray CX1-LC Deskside Supercomputer benefits of a high-end workstation and a Starting Cost for the Latest Addition to the small cluster at a user's desk. Cray CX1(TM) Line of Deskside -- A software developer looking for a Supercomputers Is Less Than $12,000 dedicated system for development and SEATTLE, WA, Jul 16, 2009 (MARKETWIRE testing. With a variety of available blades, via COMTEX) -- Global supercomputer the Cray CX1-LC deskside supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today allows customers to configure the system announced it has significantly reduced the that best meets their needs. entry-level pricing for its high A simulation project that is just starting performance computing (HPC) systems but needs room to grow. -- The Cray CX1- with the introduction of the company's LC system can easily be upgraded to a full newest product, the Cray CX1-LC(TM) Cray CX1(TM) supercomputer and beyond. deskside supercomputer. With a base price of less than $12,000, the Cray CX1- "The original Cray CX1 system has proven LC system will allow a larger segment of to be a productive, powerful and easy-to- scientists and engineers to realize the use HPC product for a growing number of benefits of Cray supercomputing, which researchers and scientists that have can substantially improve scientific turned to Cray for their deskside productivity and product development. supercomputing needs, and we expect the Cray CX1-LC will extend these benefits to Available immediately, the Cray CX1-LC an even larger number of HPC users," said deskside supercomputer -- the "LC" Ian Miller, senior vice president of the stands for "Light Configuration" -- is productivity and solutions group and designed to make using HPC systems easy marketing at Cray. "We specifically and affordable for customers in a variety designed the Cray CX1 system to of situations, including: eliminate the barriers to adoption of HPC -- An engineering team looking for its first systems, and with the Cray CX1-LC, we cluster. The Cray CX1-LC system offers a have now eliminated cost barriers as state-of-the-art Cray cluster architecture well." at an affordable price, with familiar Available with the Intel(R) Xeon(R) working environments such as Windows Processor 5500 Series and certified as an HPC Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Intel(R) Cluster Ready System, the Cray Linux. CX1-LC deskside supercomputer supports -- Scientists or engineers hitting the limits 1-4 compute blades, including of workstation performance. The Cray visualization and GPGPU blades, in a CX1-LC system pricing starts at levels similar to high-end workstations but 35
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simplified Cray CX1 chassis. As with the Introduced in September 2008, the original Cray CX1 system, the Cray CX1- successful Cray CX1 deskside LC product can be configured with storage supercomputer is designed from the options that include solid-state drives ground up to provide superior (SSDs) or large capacity, fixed-drive performance, functionality and cost for storage blades. individuals and departmental workgroups who want to harness HPC without the The Cray CX1-LC system introduces two complexity of traditional clusters. new compute blades that feature lower Equipped with state-of-the-art costs than the standard blades offered in visualization and storage capabilities, the the Cray CX1 system -- one supports only Cray CX1 supercomputer delivers Gigabit Ethernet and is oriented to the performance leadership across a broad workstation user, and the other offers range of applications, all in a compact, DDR InfiniBand and is oriented to the deskside system that plugs into a small cluster user. standard wall outlet. "HPC users are always looking for better About the Cray CX1 Supercomputer ways to gain a competitive advantage, and having a powerful, easy-to-use, mini- The Cray CX1 product is an affordably- supercomputer for under $15,000 will priced, deskside supercomputer. Easy to broaden the use of HPC to solve technical configure, deploy, administer and use, it is workloads. We expect that products like the "right size" in performance, the Cray CX1-LC will help ignite growth at functionality and cost for a wide range of the lower end of the technical computing users, from the single user who wants a market," said Earl Joseph, IDC program personal supercomputer to a department vice president for HPC. wanting a shared clustered resource. Equipped with powerful Intel Xeon(R) "The new Cray CX1-LC combines the processors and Windows(R) HPC Server strength of up to eight of our new Intel(R) 2008 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Xeon(R) 5500 processors, I/O Clustercorp Rocks+ or Platform Cluster performance from the Intel(R) X25-E Manager, the Cray CX1 product offers Extreme SSD and the agility afforded by performance leadership across a broad Intel(R) Cluster Ready to accelerate the range of applications and standard time to value equation," said Richard benchmarks. For organizations wanting to Dracott, Intel Corporation's General harness HPC without the complexity of Manager of High Performance Computing. traditional clusters, the Cray CX1 "Newly designed and priced for individuals supercomputer delivers the power of a and departmental workgroups, these high performance cluster with the ease-of- platform technologies combine to deliver use and seamless integration of a on what Cray describes as the 'ease of workstation. everything computing,' allowing users to apply HPC power to challenging science, About Cray Inc. engineering and design problems." As a global leader in supercomputing, Cray provides highly advanced 36 supercomputers and world-class services and support to government, industry and academia. Cray technology enables scientists and engineers to achieve remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating performance, improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of their most Cray Media: demanding applications. Cray's Adaptive Nick Davis Supercomputing vision will result in 206/701-2123 innovative next-generation products that integrate diverse processing technologies [email protected] into a unified architecture, allowing customers to surpass today's limitations and meeting the market's continued Cray Investors: demand for realized performance. Go to Paul Hiemstra www.cray.com for more information. 206/701-2044 Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray [email protected] CX1 and the Cray CX1-LC are trademarks of Cray Inc. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the SOURCE: Cray Inc. trademarks of their respective owners.
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Informational Websites
The LSTC LS-DYNA Support site: www.dynasupport.com
LS-DYNA Support Site FEA Informationwebsites
LS-DYNA Examples (more than 100 Examples) LS-DYNA Conference Site
LS-DYNA PublicationsH TopCrunch – Benchmarks to Download On Line
LS-DYNA Publications LSTC LS-PrePost Tutorials
LS-OPT Support Site CADFEM GmbH Portal
LS-DYNA Distributors LS-DYNA Consulting
D3 VIEW - Tracking Developments in LS- DYNA®
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