Linux Powers Billion-Cell Analysis
Posted by 3DCAD Editor
An Italian supercomputer running ANSYS performed a one-billion-cell analysis of an unnamed America's Cup yacht, breaking the previous record for largest finite element analysis. The super computer: an HP Cluster Platform 3000BL running Linux, consisting of 208 server blades, each with an Intel Xeon quad-core CPU. Total peak performance was nearly 22 teraflops (22 thousand billion floating point operations) per second. The task: the aerodynamic impact of wind on the racing yacht's mainsail...
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