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Cloud Computing Best Practices For Engineering Simulations


Rapid growth in the use of engineering simulation tools – and in the demand for high performance computing (HPC) – is driving interest in cloud computing. Using the cloud for simulation presents unique challenges with different solution types required for specific use cases. This white paper describes eight best practices for cloud deployments that are fundamentally related to simulation... » read more

Breakthrough Energy Innovation: Ambition And Urgency


The easy answers to developing products for more sustainable energy designs have already been found, so only the toughest challenges remain to be solved. Innovative improvements to existing products are leading to increased complexity, while disruptive developments push engineers into uncharted design spaces. Either path — increased complexity or unknown territory — requires greater design ... » read more

Simulating Composite Structures


Composites provide new solutions for manufacturers looking for stronger, lighter and more cost-effective materials. At the same time, they pose new modeling and manufacturing challenges because of the nature of the materials. With the right simulation tools, designers can account for residual stresses, predict performance, analyze reliability and potential failures, optimize construction, and e... » read more

Cluster Scalability Of ANSYS Fluent 12.0 For A Large Aerodynamics Case On The Darwin Supercomputer


This work examines the parallel scalability characteristics of commercial CFD software ANSYS FLUENT 12 for up to 256 processing cores, for transient CFD simulations that are heavy in I/O relative to numerical operations. In studies conducted with engineering contributions from the University of Cambridge and ANSYS, the Linux HPC environment named Darwin combined an Intel Xeon cluster with a P... » read more

Qualified Code Generation Greatly Reduces Cost Of Safety-Critical Automotive Software


As automobile electronics become more prevalent and sophisticated, ensuring the reliability of the embedded software code within those systems becomes critical to the safety of passengers and pedestrians. The development of an ISO 26262 qualified code generator helps automotive OEMs and suppliers drastically reduce development costs while ensuring that their embedded software applications will ... » read more

Cloud Computing Best Practices For Engineering IoT


Industry analysts forecast the creation of billions of “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices by 2020, and that these devices will produce huge amounts of data. Although some companies can manage and process all this data using their own proprietary solutions, the majority of companies don’t have the capability to deploy a complete infrastructure and may prefer outsourcing to a cloud provider... » read more

Engineering The Internet Of Things


All around us connected devices are proliferating. New, innovative products are emerging almost daily, and familiar products are benefiting from newer, smarter functionality. These developments come with the promise of making us healthier and safer, as well as more efficient, innovative, competitive and profitable. The Internet of Things, or IoT, which holds great potential, also presents new c... » read more

Engineering Knowledge Management


The business forces driving the need for a managed simulation environment have been with us for years and have been the impetus for the widely recognized corporate initiatives such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and Six Sigma. Engineering mantras such as “reduce cycle time” and “improve quality” translate into business objectives such as “reduce costs” and “improve the bottom l... » read more

Complete Systems Modeling And Simulation For Complex Product Development


As products in the marketplace incorporate more and more complexity, the product design process must keep pace to ensure safe, efficient and reliable integration of complicated systems, subsystems and components. Few products today involve a mere single physics; most encompass multidisciplinary behaviors and interactions (with subsequent, sometimes unpredictable, cause and effect). Though simul... » read more

Low Power Design Analysis


This paper presents a methodology for comprehensive power grid verification coverage, including identification of power grid weaknesses early in the design cycle. To read more, click here. » read more

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