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Biscarri Consultoria SL (BCSL)

☞ SME engineering and consulting company based in Barcelona

☞ Specialized in CAE technology application and know-how transfer

☞ Particularly focussed on Open Source CAE tools

☞ Nature is multi-physics, so it is BCSL approach to engineering problems

☞ Committed to facilitate the use of HPC and Computational Mechanics to Industry

☞ Collaboration with BSC: dissemination of Alya System Developments and HPC

viernes, 12 de abril de 13

• HPC needs in spanish industry: BCSL experience in automotive, aerospace, railway and energy industrial sectors

• What are the obstacles to implement this technology in Industry Design Processes?

• SME challenges concerning the use of HPC environments to perform multi-physics complex simulations.

☞ I’m going to talk about...


Some examples of Industry HPC needs...

1. Spot-weld failure prediction in vehicle crash simulations

2. Hot forming process of sheet metal parts

3. Structural response of floating Off-Shore wind turbines

4. Seismic studies of Singular Structures

5. Bird impact test on Carbon Fibre Aeronautic Structures

6. Aeroacoustics of High Speed trains


1. Spot-weld failure prediction in crash simulations

http://www.sciencedirect.com

model size growth due tospot weld detailed modeling

3D elements are needed toapply fracture mechanics




2. Hot forming process of sheet metal parts

http://www.autoform.com

multi-physics complexity: elasto-plasticity heat transfer phase change fracture mechanics




3. Off-Shore wind turbines Structural Response

http://crispgreen.com

HPC aspects: big model size fluid-structure multi-coupling very long transient analysis crack growth and fatigue life predictions




Fusion 4 Energy Consortium (ITER)

Big model size (~1M elements)Very Long Transient Analysis

4. Seismic Analysis of Singular Structures


Why industry in Spain is reluctant to use HPC ?

• Preference for well known commercial tools

• Centralized decision making in multinational corporations

• Conservative attitude: mistrust in new tools under development, not tested yet

• Organizational aspects: coupled multi-physics simulations involve different departments

• Confidentiality issues, preference for in-house HW environments


SME challenges facing HPC use...

...is Cloud Computing an alternative?


CFD Experiment / Team 30

Scalability Benchmark

Multi-Physics

Computational Mechanics

Open Source Codes

Cloud Computing



2D computational domain0.5M Triangular ElementsNavier-Stokes & Heat TransferCold Air Inflow in a warm roomLateral Symmetry BC’s

Elmer 6.2 (Computational Mechanics Software - Finland)Amazon EC2 (Cloud Computing Hardware - Northern Virginia)★ 16 cores x86 / computational node★ 60.5 GB disk space / computational node★ 10 Gbit Ethernet backbone network

CloudBroker Platform (Middleware - Switzerland)Biscarri Consultoria SL (End-User - Spain)


scalability benchmark main conclusion: backbone network bandwidth is relevant



How to increase SME industrial use of HPC?


Open Source Computational Mechanics Codes

HPC HW Resources available on Demand


thank you very much for your attention!

Lluís M. [email protected]


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http://www.biscarri.cat

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