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News Release from: Magma | Subject: Magmasoft cluster
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Team on 16 August 2005
Linux cluster rips through casting
simulation
Teksid Aluminum, one of the world's largest casting groups, has moved to improve its casting process simulation capabilities with a Magmasoft cluster licence.
Teksid Aluminum, one of the world's largest casting groups, has moved to improve its casting process simulation capabilities with a Magmasoft cluster licence In April, a Linux cluster with 16 processors supplied by Linux NetworX and the corresponding Magmasoft cluster licence were installed in Carmagnola, near Turin
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Technical Direction "Innovation and R and D" on site and various manufacturing plants of Teksid Aluminum all over the world have used Magmasoft for almost ten years.
"Having used Magmasoft successfully on Windows PCs so far, we expect a substantial decrease in response time by using the Magmasoft cluster version", states Dr Marcello Badiali, Vice President Engineering of Teksid Aluminum.
"We use Magmasoft not only to satisfy our foundries' requests".
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"We also apply our simulation ability to support our customers during early stages of their components' design, as we need to cope with the strongly growing demand for simulation runs".
"The benchmarks we performed with the Magmasoft cluster version, combined to the well-known Linux NetworX hardware reliability, convinced us to add a new client-server architecture to the existing PC environment".
"This server is built around the Magmasoft cluster version".
"The architecture will allow our users to continue operating in the usual environment".
"At the same time, they are able to take advantage of the licences sharing among our European works".
"The software also fully covers the internal communication and the data logistics".
Teksid Aluminum installed an eight-node cluster Linux Networx, with a two Pentium IV 2.8GHz processors and 1Gbyte main memory per node".
"Compared with the single processor workstations we used, a speed increase up to 30 times is to be expected, dependent on the project and physics to be modelled", says Paolo Bovero, Process Simulation Manager of Teksid Aluminum.
"Moreover, the actual hardware configuration will allow us to extend our capacities just plugging in further nodes".
"Having already three installations in Italy and more than ten all over the world, Teksid Aluminum shows with its decision, that the cluster technology is becoming an industrial state-of-the-art solution also in the foundry world".
"As the software environment remains the same for the user, the Magmasoft cluster version is increasingly being accepted as a strongly performing option for medium-sized enterprises", says Piero Parona, Sales Manager of EnginSoft and Magmasoft distributor in Italy.
The decision of Teksid Aluminum is the most recent installation of the Magmasoft cluster in central Europe: after the DaimlerChrysler central tooling shop in Stuttgart, Honsel in Meschede, Audi in Ingolstadt, von Roll in Switzerland, De Globe in Netherland, PSA in France and Zanardi in Italy.
Further cluster licences have been installed at Nemak, Mexico, Honda Group, Japan as well as Ford, Superior, and CAPT in the USA.
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