Cost-Effective Supercomputing with Highly Parallel Systems(SVEC Open House)

TechXploration is partnering with SVEC for the event. Please join the Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) at our annual Open House event Friday November 21st to share contacts, ideas and engineering camaraderie.

5:30pm The event begins with a networking reception and hors d'oeuvres
7:00pm The speaking program begins

Highlights of the Open House program include:

• Networking Reception with many local engineers
• Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame 2015 Inductees Announcement

• Talk on : Cost-Effective Supercomputing with Highly Parallel Systems

• Speaker Dr. David Eimerl (http://www.eimexinc.com/meetdavid.html), Eimex Inc. & Mark Schroeder, Perficio Micro, LLC

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• Discover “E” (Engineering) Program for sending engineers to classrooms
• SVEC 2015 Scholarship Program Call for Applications

Cost-Effective Supercomputing with Highly Parallel Systems"

Today’s fast-paced, highly integrated, product development environment, demands that products be both created and tested in computer simulated environments. Finite Element Analysis (FEA), the choice for most simulations, is used for calculations of stress, heat transfer, electrostatics, electromagnetic fields, fluid mechanics, and many more topics.

Accurate calculations results with fine resolution place a heavy demand on the computational resources, especially for coupled problems. Problems with fine resolution or complex temporal development can require formidable supercomputing resources, but most commercial FEA packages are not configured for massively parallel operations, are generally expensive, and none solve all problem types within the same package.

Commercial FEA packages also tend to be limited in that they generally work within a shared memory server, (usually one workstation), and are not scalable to massive parallelism. Today we present a highly parallel FEA approach, which uses a combination of open source software, public domain mathematics libraries built by National Laboratories, and a variety of matrix solvers.

Our approach utilizes a distributed system that fully utilizes a rack of servers that offer all their RAM and processors/threads to the ‘mother’ process (node).

SVEC Engineers Week Banquet February 2015 announcement The Silicon Valley Engineering Council, the alliance for engineering leaders in the Silicon Valley, serves as a collective focus to support your professional engineering organization and to serve the needs of your membership and the engineering education community in the San Francisco Bay Area. (www.svec.org)

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