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May 03, 2011

NAFEMS World Congress to Devote Day to HPC in Engineering Simulation

May 3 -- Join the engineering community at the NAFEMS World Congress in Boston, and help shape the future of HPC in Engineering Simulation.

Practicing engineers have traditionally viewed HPC with skepticism, preferring instead to work within the constraints of PCs and workstations. Recently, the multicore era has catalyzed radical change within the sector. It has forced software vendors to implement algorithms that can make use of multiple processing elements and perhaps more significantly, it has encouraged them to rethink their licensing models. At the same time, engineering companies are facing growing pressures to shrink costs and reduce time to market for new products. Taken together, these factors mean that the Engineering Sector (Aerospace, Automotive, Energy) is an attractive growth market for hardware vendors.

NAFEMS, the international society for engineering simulation, has been monitoring this situation very carefully. NAFEMS represents more than 950 member organizations, including high profile companies such as Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce. It provides independent advice to its members through its Technical and Regional Working Groups. These organize training courses and seminars and produce online and printed media, helping to promote best practice in FE and CFD simulation.

Over the past two years, NAFEMS has received an increasing volume of enquiries regarding HPC. One of the responses has been for the Regional Groups to organize one-day seminars to discuss HPC issues. At the most recent, hosted by Microsoft at their Reading (UK) Headquarters, Jaguar Land Rover gave a compelling talk about their radical shift in company policy, from little investment in HPC in 2009 to what the author estimates to be a six figure investment in 2010. The speaker hinted at a commitment to further "significant" expansion of their HPC infrastructure, given the prominent role of HPC in the design of the new Range Rover Evoque.

Only 3 weeks away is a full day dedicated to HPC for Engineering Simulation at the NAFEMS World Congress in Boston, USA (23-26th May 2011). Attendees may register for the whole event or just the HPC Session on 25th May. The chairman, Dr Lee Margetts (University of Manchester), has brought together a range of high profile vendors and practitioners to give their views on the future of HPC (Cray, IBM, Simulia) and the potential of technologies such as cloud computing (Microsoft, The Charity Engine) and GPUs (NVIDIA, ANSYS). A full programme can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/6cv8uhz.

During the World Congress, NAFEMS will be finalizing the details of a new Technical Working Group dedicated to HPC. This is therefore the perfect time for hardware vendors to join the dialogue and help shape the future of HPC in Engineering Simulation.

Useful links

World Congress Home Page -- http://www.nafems.org/congress/
HPC Special Session -- http://tinyurl.com/6cv8uhz
NAFEMS Membership -- http://www.nafems.org/involved/

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Source: Dr Lee Margetts, University of Manchester

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