1. The Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart – and other remarks
PROF. DR. – ING. MICHAEL M. RESCH (HLRS)
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2. Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart
Outline
Introduction / HLRS
Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart
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3. Introduction / HLRS
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4. The HLRS Organisation 1st German National HPC Center (1996)
Director
HLRS
Software &
Systems
Applications & Vizualisation
Department
for High Performance Computing
Baden-Württemberg Research Networks
Central Unit of Universität Stuttgart
1st German National HPC Center (1996)
HLRS Basic numbers
Staff: ~27+50
Funding per year: ~3.9+5 M€
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5. Basic Numbers Projects 12 European 10 Federal 4 Industry 2 State
Systems
NEC SX-8 / SX-9 National Supercomputer
490 Intel Cluster / Infiniband
400 AMD Opteron / Myrinet
(1000+ x86 Cluster / Infiniband)
Others
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6. Computational Science & Engineering School for Mechanical Engineering
The HLRS Framework
Computational Science & Engineering
School for Mechanical Engineering
Education
Research Projects
Industrial Collabo-rations
Regional Collabo-rations
Production
STGT – UL
KA - HD
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7. The HLRS Systems IDC HPC User Forum NEC SX-8 (576) DALCO Viz-Cluster
Opteron (64)
NEC SX-6
(48)
Fileserver
NEC Asama (64)
VR Cave
IBM HSM > 2 PB
Ulm
Stuttgart
SUN Fire 2900
(48x2)
IBM Cell
IBM
(2800x4)
IBM x3755
(144x2)
Cray Strider+XD1
(400)
NEC
(416)
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8. Driving forces
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9. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
Economy
Research
Computational
Science & Engineering
Politics
Society
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10. CSE Lifecycle HPC Commodity/ Production High End Computing
Mid range computing
Workstation/PC
Ideas/Models
Computational
Research
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11. Public-Private Joint Venture
Name: High Performance Computing Center for Academia and Industry (since 1995)
Acronym: hww
Share holders:
HLRS/University of Stuttgart (12.5%)
T-Systems & T-Systems sfr (40%)
Porsche AG (10%)
State of Baden-Württemberg (12.5%)
Other universities (25%)
Purpose:
Operate Systems
Buy and sell CPU-Time
Directors:
Dr. Heib (T-Systems)
Prof. Rühle (University of Stuttgart)
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12. Business Concept Operation Hosting Simulation Optimization Operation
Security
Accounting
Design
Optimization
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13. Industrial Usage IDC HPC User Forum Bertrandt BTB Daimler Kärcher
Mahle
Porsche
RECOM
Transsolar
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14. Sustainable environmental simulation in industry
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15. Goals of ASCS Supercomputer Simulation in Automotive Industry
Shortening of time to solution
Modelling and Algorithms
Experiments
and Validation
Validation in pre-production environment
Implementation
in ISV Codes
Requirements
Project start
Industrial
usage
Availability
Industrie
Research Institutes
ISV
Research Inst.
Industry
Gain
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16. Members of ASCS Automotive OEM ISVs Supply Industry Research
Daimler
Porsche
Opel
Supply Industry
Karman
Research
University of Stuttgart
FKFS
Virtual Dimension Center
Prof. Wittum (Frankfurt)
Prof. Resch (HLRS)
ISVs
INTES
Engineous
Dynamore
Abaqus
Altair
Hardware Vendors
Cray
NEC
IBM
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17. Organization of ASCS Implementation Validation Solutions ASCS-Members
ISVs
HW-Vendors
Implementation
Validation
Universities
Research-organisations-
hww
Hardware-vendors
Solutions
Infrastructure
HPC-
Numerical
Methods
Modeling
Computer
Science
Visualization
ASCS-Members
OEMs
Suppliers
Applications
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18. Focal Points of ASCS Internal Combustion Fluid Flow Chemical Reaction
Material Science
Multidisciplinary Optimization
Shape Optimization
Leight Weight Construction
Crash
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19. Summary & outlook
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20. Summary We have mastered CPU Provisioning We have survived the Grid
We will master Solution Provisioning
We will survive the Cloud
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