ANSYS HPC ANSYS, Inc. November 25, 2014

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1 ANSYS HPC 1

2 ANSYS HPC Commitment High Performance Computing (HPC) adds tremendous value to your use of simulation enabling enhanced Insight Engineering productivity ANSYS is focused on HPC Major innovations in the last releases Ongoing investment to expand capability and exploit emerging technologies 2

3 Business Value of ANSYS HPC ANSYS HPC enables the enhanced insight you need to succeed High-fidelity, detailed and accurate understanding of product performance Insight you may not be able to get in any other way Insight you need in order to avoid costs associated with product failure, troubleshooting delays, or lack of product innovation ANSYS HPC enables productivity Faster simulation turnaround and ability to consider more design ideas Faster decision making, right decisions to keep projects on track to out-compete is to out-compute. US Council on Competitiveness 3

4 ANSYS HPC Delivering the Business Value There is ever-increasing pressure from the market to ship products with shorter development cycles and increased design complexity. HPC enables us to achieve this goal via shorter and more effective design cycles. - Santosh Shetty, Reliability and Component Engineer, Microsoft Application: Software: Thermal cycling loads in Xbox console ANSYS Mechanical HPC Solution: Solution in 12 hours using 16-way parallel Compared to 4 days on single workstation Business Solution: More robust final product based on insight gained from simulating multiple design scenarios 4

5 ANSYS HPC Enabling Enhanced Insight ANSYS HPC technology has ensured that we can test and implement changes quickly and competitively. This allows us to turn around simulation results for multiple designs between race qualifications on Fridays and Saturdays... - Nathan Sykes, CFD Team Leader, Red Bull Racing Application: Software: HPC Solution: Car aerodynamics, braking, exhaust systems ANSYS Fluent Ability to obtain high-fidelity insight into car performance in shorter turnaround times Business ANSYS HPC crucial to Red Bull Racing Solution: Formula One Championships in 2010 &

6 ANSYS HPC Enabling Enhanced Insight ANSYS HPC technology is enabling Cummins to use larger models with greater geometric details and more-realistic treatment of physical phenomena... - John Horsley, Engineer, Cummins Turbo Technologies Application: Software: HPC Solution: Business Solution: Turbochargers of diesel engines ANSYS CFX High-fidelity results; 12 times faster; ability to simultaneously evaluate 5 full-stage compressor or turbine designs in a few hours Ability to bring new products to market in less time while substantially reducing expenses 6

7 ANSYS HPC Enabling Enhanced Insight Petrobras relies on ANSYS software for its superior parallel scalability, together with advanced multiphase models and dynamic meshing. - Carlos Alberto Capela Moraes, Technical Consultant, CENPES (Petrobras R&D Center) Application: Software: HPC Solution: Business Solution: Transient multiphase simulation of sand transportation ANSYS CFD Consider more detailed, accurate and complete 3-D flow assurance simulations than ever before Ability to understand critical scenarios and complex operations of upstream processing systems 7

8 ANSYS HPC Enabling Enhanced Productivity Parallel processing makes it possible to evaluate five to 10 design iterations per day, enabling Cognity to rapidly improve their design... - Rae Younger, Managing Director, Cognity Limited Application: Software: HPC Solution: Stress analysis of hydraulic deflection housing ANSYS Mechanical Critical to meet delivery-time requirements for this project Business Ability to complete the design in approx. 70% Solution: less time than would have been required

9 ANSYS HPC Enabling Enhanced Productivity By optimizing our solver selection and workstation configuration, and including GPU acceleration, we ve been able to dramatically reduce turnaround time from over two days to just an hour. This enables the use of simulation to examine multiple design ideas and gain more value out of our investment in simulation. - Berhanu Zerayohannes, Senior Mechanical Engineer, NVIDIA Application: Software: Deflection and bending of 3-D glasses ANSYS Mechanical Copyright 2011 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. HPC Solution: From 60 hours per simulation to 47 minutes (77x speedup) Business Ability to ensure robust performance of the 3-D Solution: glasses via examining multiple design ideas 9

10 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Parallel Enabled (Cores) Packs per Simulation 10

11 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Single solution for all physics and any level of fidelity If I buy 5 HPC Packs and I have 5 solver seats, it will enable 5 simultaneous simulations, each running -way parallel! Parallel Enabled (Cores) Solver Jobs Packs per Simulation

12 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Single solution for all physics and any level of fidelity If I buy 5 HPC Packs and I have 4 solver seats, it will also enable 3 simultaneous simulations, each running -way parallel, and 1 large case simulation running 32-way parallel. Parallel Enabled (Cores) Solver Jobs Packs per Simulation 12

13 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Single solution for all physics and any level of fidelity If I buy 5 HPC Packs and I have sufficient HPC capacity, it will also enable 1 simulation running 12-way parallel, and 1 simulation running 32-way parallel. Parallel Enabled (Cores) Solver Jobs

14 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Single solution for all physics and any level of fidelity If I buy 5 HPC Packs and I have sufficient HPC capacity, it will also allow scale-out at 204 parallel essentially unlimited parallel! Parallel Enabled (Cores) Solver Jobs

15 Enabling Insight ANSYS HPC Packs ANSYS HPC Packs enable highfidelity insight Each simulation consumes one or more packs Parallel enabled increases quickly with added packs Single solution for all physics and any level of fidelity Parallel Enabled (Cores) Flexibility as your HPC resources grow Reallocate Packs, as resources allow Packs per Simulation 15

16 Enabling Productivity ANSYS HPC Workgroup Solution ANSYS HPC Workgroup provides parallel capacity for multiple users and multiple simulations Volume access to parallel processes Available in blocks from 12 to 204 processes Shared across any number of simulation tasks on single server 16 Local Users HPC Resource or License Server ANSYS HPC Workgroup Parallel Block

17 Enabling Productivity ANSYS HPC Enterprise Solution ANSYS HPC Enterprise enables enterprise-wide productivity Volume access to parallel processes Available in blocks from 12 to 204 processes Shared across any number of simulation tasks Flexible access and deployment Use parallel wherever you have HPC resources Use parallel wherever you have end-users 17 Local Users HPC Resource or License Server ANSYS HPC Enterprise Parallel Block Remote Users

18 ANSYS HPC Multiphysics Capable ANSYS HPC solutions support multiphysics Single solution enables parallel processing for fluids, structures, thermal, and electromagnetics Eliminates the need to separately acquire and deploy parallel processing for separate simulation domains Increases the value from your overall investment in high performance computing and ANSYS multiphysics solutions 1

19 ANSYS Investment in HPC ANSYS invests to deliver top performance and capability In our latest releases: CFD: Ideal parallel scaling to 3072 cores; support for one billion cell simulations; support for parallel file I/O; hybrid parallelism Mechanical: Teraflop performance and scaling to 512 cores; GPU acceleration (both shared and distributed memory solvers) HF electromagnetics: Domain decomposition (incl. finite array capability) ANSYS has consistently focused software design on the full range of computing platforms from workstation to supercomputer with their technology yielding great performance on the latest high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. This ensures that our mutual customers can tackle ever more complex and high-fidelity simulations while still achieving the turnaround time required for product development decision making. Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Technical Computing Group 19

20 15 % spent on R&D 600 software developers Partner relationships Parallel dynamic moving/deforming mesh Distributed memory particle tracking 190 ANSYS HPC Leadership A History of HPC Performance Ideal scaling to 204 cores (fluids) Teraflop performance at 512 core (structures) Parallel I/O (fluids) Domain Decomposition introduced (HFSS 12) Parallel meshing (fluids) Support for clusters using Windows HPC Integration with load management systems Support for Linux clusters, low latency interconnects 10M cell fluids simulations, 12 processors Parallel dynamic mesh refinement and coarsening Dynamic load balancing st general-purpose parallel CFD with interactive client-server user environment Optimized performance on multicore processors 1 st One Billion cell fluids simulation st company to solve 100M structural DOF bit large memory addressing Shared memory multiprocessing (HFSS 7) 1994 Iterative PCG Solver Introduced for large structural analysis 1990 Shared Memory Multiprocessing for structural simulations 190 s Vector Processing on Mainframes Ideal scaling to 340 cores (fluids) Hybrid parallel for sustained multicore performance (fluids) DDM for antenna arrays (HFSS) Architecture-aware partitioning (fluids) GPU acceleration (structures) Distributed sparse solver Distributed PCG solver Variational Technology DANSYS released Distributed Solve (DSO) HFSS ANSYS, Inc. November 25, 2014 ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

21 Optimized Solver Performance - ANSYS Mechanical Impressive speed and scaling improvements in 13.0 release Focus on resolving bottlenecks in the distributed memory solvers (DANSYS) Sparse direct solver Parallelized equation ordering 40% faster w/ updated Intel MKL Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) iterative solver Parallelized preconditioning step Support of unsymmetric eigensolver 21

22 Optimized Solver Performance - ANSYS Mechanical Results Courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering, GmbH GPU Acceleration can be used with Distributed ANSYS to combine the advantage of GPU technology and the power of distributed ANSYS 22

23 Optimized Solver Performance - ANSYS Fluent Continuous performance improvements version over version Parallel scalability near ideal (9%+)! Demonstrable ability to solve large problems on large clusters very efficiently 23

24 Hybrid parallelism for best performance on multi-core chips within clusters Fast Parallel I/O Optimized Solver Performance - ANSYS Fluent Architecture-aware partitioning Good scalability for simulations with monitors enabled Rating of DPM Improved Scaling with Hybrid Parallelism - Nehalem EX mpi hybrid Number of Cores Minimizing Network Traffic Improved Scaling with R14 Monitors 24 Number of Cores

25 Optimized Solver Performance - ANSYS HFSS Speed-up Speed-up Domain Decomposition Method (DDM), incl. support of finite antenna arrays (R14) Increased memory efficiency for large and very large problems allows super-scaling! Faster solutions across multiple processors 25

26 Ongoing HPC Initiatives ANSYS focus on HPC is ongoing Ongoing optimization and performance tuning Dynamic load balancing; optimized resource mapping, compiler evaluation Architecting for next level scalability Performance at 10,000 cores or more; increased core density and GP-GPUs Innovative mechanical solvers: Multilevel PCG, 2D parallel DSPARSE fronts Hybrid distributed/shared memory and vector processing paradigms Scalability across all components and full simulation process Meshing, setup, solver, I/O, visualization, optimization Parallel for linear dynamics, including mode superposition-based analyses Distributed domain solver, especially for contact nonlinearities Partial factorization (in-core substructuring) for localized nonlinearities Usability Multi-component parallel execution environment, job scheduler support Hardware fault tolerance, system performance tracking and debugging All to achieve next-generation capability / performance! 26

27 HPC Partnerships ANSYS maintains close technical collaboration with the leaders in HPC This mutual commitment ensures that you get the most possible value from your overall HPC investment Some current examples: Optimized performance on multicore processors from Intel, with R&D focused on Intel s Many Integrated Core (MIC) Over 60% performance boost for the latest Intel Xeon E processor (Sandy Bridge) family compared to previous Intel (Westmere) generation GPU computing accelerates ANSYS Mechanical today, with very active R&D engagement with NVIDIA across full portfolio ANSYS and IBM Optimized cluster and storage architectures for ANSYS ANSYS and Cray Support for extreme scalability of ANSYS CFD on the Cray XE, up to 1000 s of cores 27

28 Summary - Advantages of HPC Solutions from ANSYS Virtually Unlimited Parallel HPC Packs make large-scale parallel processing attractive for individual simulation jobs Flexible Deployment one HPC product can be shared across simulation disciplines HPC resources can be used wherever the equipment is, and wherever the end-users are Optimized Solver Performance Solvers deliver outstanding parallel performance and scaling HPC Technology Leadership Our commitment, expertise and support ensure customer s ROI in HPC for today and tomorrow Trusted Partner in HPC ANSYS is the top-tier partner for the leaders in HPC (Intel, AMD, Microsoft, HP, IBM, and others) 2

29 ANSYS HPC Related Resources Published performance benchmarks Partner solutions Reference configurations, white papers, performance data Publications at compete.org Questions/Inquiries 29