CD-adapco, HLRS Partner for STAR-CCM+ HPC Performance

CD-adapco, a provider of CAE software, has set a new standard in performance and scalability for CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software. The company has partnered with the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for benchmarking studies.

The collaboration between CD-adapco, HLRS and SICOS BW was able to run STAR-CCM+ on the entirety of the 1.045 PetaFlop Hermit cluster and maintain perfect scalability beyond 55,000 cores.

These findings are part of a multi-year project to benchmark, profile and ensure optimal STAR-CCM+ scalability on petascale computing systems, the company states. A variety of different benchmarking cases were run, ranging from 500 million to 2 billion cells. Each test generated automatically using parallel meshing technology.

“The ability to perform simulations with such massive core counts is a real breakthrough for the CAE industry, and a direct result of our close collaboration with HLRS,” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, senior vice president of Product Management, CD-adapco. “In under a year, this project has allowed STAR-CCM+ to effectively run, and scale, on over 50,000 cores. That is very encouraging, and I am excited to see what other breakthroughs we can make. “The results allow STAR-CCM+ users to gain maximum utility from all of the computing resources that are available to them.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.