Software/hardware collaboration boosts performance
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ESI Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 21, 2007
Intel/ESI research provides users with a significant competitive advantage in terms of computing performance, cost efficiency and the size of the crash model.
ESI group and Intel have announced the results of their technological collaboration.
RandD teams at ESI group and Intel have been working to optimise ESI group's Visual Environment V3.0 to take full advantage of Intel's multi-core processors, using Intel's software tools, such as Intel VTune and Intel Thread Checker.
This joint Intel / ESI group achievement provides users with a significant competitive advantage in terms of computing performance, cost efficiency and the size of the crash model.
It also provides more accurate simulations.
Data-processing time is up to 2.79 times faster for huge crash models (10 million elements) on Visual Environment V3.0, as optimised on the latest multi-core Intel Xeon processor.
ESI group's integrated solution underpins a proven engineering simulation environment based on openness and extended interoperability with tier CAE and ESI group's solvers.
Today, the industry needs to move away from the traditional trial-and-error methodology to embrace simulation-based design.
This will help companies to innovate faster by reducing the need for real prototypes through collaborative engineering.
This sharing of resources between ESI group and Intel amounts to a significant step forward in realistic simulations that use a minimum of 10 million elements for crash simulation.
The first results point to a performance boost of up to 250% in data processing from VE 2.5 to the VE 3.0 optimised on the latest dual-core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 series, as well as more than 4Gbyte allocated in memory using Windows XP 64bit on the latest multi-core Intel Xeon processor.
These outstanding produce more accurate simulations, mainly due to a refined model which allows the investigation of critical zones, such as that made by a German car maker using the multi-scale coupling option of Pam-Crash 2G to introduce detailed information results from casting into crash-model simulation.
"Intel is very pleased that, through our collaboration, ESI group has used our software development tools to optimise Version 3.0 of Visual Environment to provide new levels of performance on our Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 series", says Stephane Negre, Intel EMEA Global Software Relations Manager.
"ESI group's customers can now load models of millions of elements".
"We will carry on working with ESI group in developing new platforms to anticipate the future customer's needs".
"This partnership with Intel enables ESI group to overcome environmental limits by opening up new opportunities to solvers to deliver realistic simulations".
"Up to now, our customers were obliged to build compute models dedicated to several types of crash simulation".
"Today, thanks to these excellent results, engineers can use a crash model that covers the crash and safety simulation domain as a whole", says Jean-Louis Duval, ESI group Worldwide Business Manager for Enterprise Integrated Solutions.
"The next step will be to take full advantage of Intel multi-core technology in order to provide a multi-thread environment, which will deliver the best in-class performance solution".
"This collaboration between ESI group and Intel has fully contributed to reaching new levels of performance to help end-users meet their needs".
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