Advertorial: Not Just Your Typical Workstation Anymore

By Peter Varhol

Design engineers and consultant engineers today have the opportunity to dramatically change the way that they work. This opportunity is driven by the emergence of the Solver Ready Workstations from HP. This is an HP Z800 workstation that is sized and configured to run complex analysis with software from ANSYS and other CAE suppliers without passing the information off to a server. This allows engineers to start driving their designs based upon simulation and analysis, in other words Analysis-Driven Design —radically improving and accelerating the design process.

  The Solver Ready HP Z800 Workstation brings two critical capabilities to engineers. First, it enables them to do work on their workstation that often had to be done in data centers, or not at all. Additional computational power, memory, and overall system performance makes it possible to do the usual design activities more quickly, and also makes it possible for the engineer to engage in a greater number of design iterations and complex analysis.

  Second, by doing design activities more quickly, the Solver Ready Workstation brings with it the ability to improve the design in the process. Engineers aren’t only producing a design, they are iterating through multiple designs and design approaches in order to come up with the best design. They can design, analyze, simulate, adjust, and repeat until the design is optimized. All at their desk, done without delay using modern engineering software on today’s high-performance dual processor workstations.

Technologies Driving the Solver Ready Workstation
Engineering-driven organizations now have access to inexpensive workstations and workgroup clusters based on the new 64-bit Intel®  Xeon® 5600-series processor, with six cores and two threads per core, and two of these high-powered processors in a single HP Z800 workstation. All totaled that’s 12 cores and with hyper-threading they can run 24 threads simultaneously. These workstations and work group clusters deliver the compute capacity of high-performance computers that was only available in the data center just a few years ago.

  Further, advances in engineering software are taking better advantage of the ability of hardware to deliver substantially higher performance at lower costs. Software from ISVs such as ANSYS, have improved capability in utilizing multiple cores and threads to quickly analyze and simulate those designs, ultimately producing a better product. Engineers can do more at their desktops, and do it more quickly. And those designs will be of higher quality, with a faster time to market
There is a better way. And with today’s high-performance HP Z workstations, design engineers are finding it.

For more information on an HP and ANSYS Solution please call 800-888-0261 or email [email protected] or go to: www.hp.com/go/solver