Support for the latest generation processor and interconnect technologies has emerged as a critical requirement in order to maintain the required computational efficiency. As FLUENT customers continue to refine their simulations, by enhancing the fidelity of their CAD geometry models and invoking more advanced physical models, the computational requirements greatly increase. It then becomes necessary to employ large computational clusters to support rapid design analyses.

With benchmark results showing 6x faster than the closest competitor on SGI Altix with ItaniumII processors, 2x faster on IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 with PowerPC970 processors and up to 50x faster on Xeon EM64T processors, OptimaNumerics Libraries maintains the leading position as the fastest numerical tools available.

• TURBOdesign-1 can generate smooth 3D blades with as few as 8 control points
• TURBOdesign-1 implicitly ensures designs with fixed specific work and mass flow rate.
• In TURBOdesign-1 the design parameter is blade loading which more directly relates to the 3D pressure distribution and the flow field. This helps to accelerate the convergence of the optimization process.
• The results of optimization are an optimum loading distribution that is general and can be used with ease in TURBOdesign-1 to design similar machines with optimum performance.

The AMD Opteron 800 series processor was introduced by AMD in June 2003 for 8-way servers, but until now the processor has been used primarily in 4-way servers. The AMD Opteron processor has built-in HyperTransport™ technology that provides up to 6.4GBs of scalable bandwidth interconnect between processors, memory, I/O subsystems, as well as other chipsets.

The new kit will include compilers, debugging solutions, message passing libraries, numerical libraries, and other software tools used by developers in the ’Build-Debug-Run-Optimize’ development cycle for high-performance computing applications. Tools included in the SDK are from IBM, Absoft, and other manufacturers and open source providers.

The workshop will focus on using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model flow in a defined geometry. It will highlight CFD embedded within the ANSYS Workbench user interface.

Attendees will be given the opportunity to perform CFD analysis from start to finish using ANSYS CFX in the ANSYS Workbench Environment.