CD-adapco, NCSA Partner for STAR-CCM+ Performance

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in partnership with CD-adapco, has broken a simulation benchmarking record with STAR-CCM+ on its Blue Waters system. The platform was run on 102,000 cores to push the code to new heights and address growing demands for faster turnaround time, the company states.

The project demonstrated scaling abilities with a 1 billion cell model. Its efficiency was 93% at 60,000 cores, 84% at 71,000 cores and 75% at 102,000 cores. Additionally, researchers tested a 105 million on 13,000 cores.

CD-adapco is now creating a 2 billion cell simulation model which will further the partnership with the NCSA.

“Running STAR-CCM+ on the NCSA Blue Waters machine not only showcased our unrivaled technical competence in scaling large runs, but highlighted our industry-unique licensing model as well. CD-adapco is the only major CAE vendor to provide licenses that are 100% uncoupled from the number of compute cores used in parallel to solve a problem. The financial benefits are huge, whether you run on a hundred or a hundred thousand cores,” says Steve Feldman, senior vice president for IT at CD-adapco.

For more information, visit CD-adapco and the NCSA.

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