Manufacturing
To accelerate design and product development, and reduce time-to-market, manufacturing organizations are increasingly relying on IT to deliver infrastructure for simulations with increased model sophistication and detail. These simulations drive the need for faster compute that traditional dual- and quad-processor systems, with their limited memory, can no longer meet. To overcome these system limitations, software vendors have increasingly invested in scaling their applications to take advantage of the largest CPU solutions. These can be run either on shared memory processing (SMP) systems or on distributed memory systems (clusters). Market analysis shows that, when taking into account application scalability and software-licensing models, optimum system configurations are in the range of 4- to 16-processor and 128 GB to 512 GB. This makes solutions based on ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation aggregation platform an ideal choice for these environments.
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
vSMP Foundation is optimized for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications such as Synopsis, Cadence and Mentor Graphics. With the industry's largest x86 shared memory footprint, solutions based on ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation aggregation platform deliver the scalability and performance for complex and multi-threaded tasks. Utilizing the same hardware infrastructure for large shared memory processing during validation phases (prior to tape-out) vSMP Foundation can run multiple concurrent user jobs on large core count systems in day-to-day design.
Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM)
vSMP Foundation is optimized for Computational Structural Mechanics applications such as Ansys, Abaqus, and LS-Dyna. With the industry's largest x86 shared memory footprint, solutions based on ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation aggregation platform deliver the scalability and performance for complex physical modeling tasks. In general most implicit applications tend to scale well from 8 to 16 processor cores and require large amounts of memory which favors shared memory systems. Explicit applications tend to scale better, but demand much higher memory bandwidth. vSMP Foundation aggregation platforms offer the compute, memory, and bandwidth advantages in one system, for both implicit and explicit solvers, optimally running simulations on a variety of processors (from 4 to 32 and up to 256 cores). With solutions based on vSMP Foundation, designers and engineers can deliver superior product designs faster and more cost effectively. vSMP Foundation solutions provide the capability to run more complex analyses on very detailed components or subassemblies dramatically speeding up application run times, and significantly reducing costly engineering changes.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Computational Fluid Dynamics is a time-consuming and performance intensive application environment. The shared memory architecture of solutions based on vSMP Foundation deliver the scalability, performance and large memory required for complex physical modeling and especially important in the pre-processing and mesh stages of generation. In addition, vSMP Foundation delivers the industry's highest memory bandwidth for shared-memory system (comparable to a cluster). The combination of large memory, high memory bandwidth, and large number of processors makes solutions based on vSMP Foundation ideal for computational fluid dynamics simulations. These solutions enable design engineers to deliver superior product design more quickly providing the capability to run more complex analyses on a greater variety of fluid dynamics problems and significantly reduce application run times.