High Performance Computing
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Demand for CFD-studies
"The present computing system should keep pace with customer's needs. Not only was the number of jobs we were asked to take on rapidly increasing, but each job?s CFD calculations (Computational Fluid Dynamics) were growing more and more complex," says Dr. Marco Derksen, Manager of Research and Development at Stork Thermeq. ?Our existing hardware and software platform couldn't perform fast enough for us to keep up. We decided to remove this bottleneck."
High Performance Computing
After carrying out a series of tests in conjunction with Dell and using new Dell hardware, we ultimately decided to configure a 40-core cluster that ran the newer Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system on Dell PowerEdge R610 computers. The operating system is built on the Windows Server'® 2008 64-bit operating system and includes the Microsoft message passing interface (MPI).
Benefits
For Stork Thermeq, using Windows HPC Server 2008 will help support business growth through faster performance and the ability for deeper research. "We?re in a great position with Windows HPC Server 2008, and we can only grow from here," says Derksen. ""We can respond far better to customer demand than in the past" The company's migration to Windows HPC Server 2008 is resulting in a higher-quality product for its customers. "Because we can run jobs more efficiently, we're able to do more research and gain deeper insight into a particular challenge within the same amount of time," says Derksen. In the near future, Stork Thermeq will expand its HPC research services to provide for Stork business units beyond Stork Thermeq. "We?re now ready for whatever requests are made of us, whether they come from within our division or from our parent company. We have a widely accessible, fully scalable structure in place-it?s just a matter of quickly adding compute nodes as needed, which we can do ourselves, with no outside experts necessary."
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