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FLOW-3D/MP: CFD High Performance Computing
FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.2 enables engineers to take advantage of the scaling potential of the software on multi-core 64-bit clusters. FLOW-3D users with access to Linux or Windows Compute clusters can obtain highly-accurate results for their transient free-surface problems by using FLOW-3D/MP. Version 4.2 is a Hybrid version of FLOW-3D/MP and uses Message Passing Interface (MPI) and OpenMP to achieve parallelization. The OpenMP paradigm is based on shared memory architecture (fine-grained or loop-level parallelism) while MPI is based on a distributed memory, domain decomposition paradigm (coarse-grained). The physical domain is decomposed into blocks, which are then associated with MPI processes and assigned to nodes on a cluster. Within a node, the MPI process spawns threads and performs multi-threaded calculations using OpenMP directives. Request more information about FLOW-3D/MP v4.2.
Speed up your CFD Simulations with FLOW-3D/MP v4.2
FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 offers users substantial performance improvements with possible scaling up to 256 cores and runtime improvements of as much as 60x over FLOW-3D v9.4. FLOW-3D users typically tackle transient free-surface problems, which are a difficult challenge for distributed-memory computing. With FLOW-3D/MP v4.2, problems which previously took a week to complete can now be solved in hours.
The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 are based on FLOW-3D v9.4. Download the FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 Features List. Download the FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 Brochure.
FLOW-3D/MP Benchmark Data
Four benchmark tests were run using FLOW-3D/MP v4.2. All benchmark tests were run on the same hardware configuration, using a standard procedure. The tests are representative of the type of transient, free‐surface flow calculations which FLOW-3D users tackle daily. The four benchmarks represent simulations from application areas of foundry (gravity pour casting), aerospace (sloshing), hydraulics (flow over spillway) and microfluidics (inkjet).
FLOW-3D/MP Video Tutorials
Installing FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 |
Running Simulations with FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 |
| Part 1: Installing FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 - an introduction. | Part 1: Running a FLOW-3D/MP simulation - an introduction. |
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FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 Features List
FLOW-3D/MP 4.0 - Performance Improvements
FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 Certified by Intel as Cluster Ready
High performance clusters offer significant performance gains over typical desktop computers but can be quite complex to configure. There are many choices for operating systems, middleware, interconnects, memory, and storage. Intel Corporation has introduced the Intel Cluster Ready certification program to assure users that hardware and software will work correctly together. Hardware that displays the Intel Cluster Ready logo is assured to run software which is also certified as Cluster Ready.
Software and Hardware Requirements
FLOW-3D/MP runs on both SMP machines and clusters (which may consist of a group of similarly configured Xeons® or Opterons®) running Redhat Enterprise Linux (4 or 5) or Suse Linux (10 or 11), or Windows Server 2008 (R1 or R2), a network interconnect such as Gigabit Ethernet, or Infiniband and a large shared NFS disk accessible from all nodes in cluster. Prior to installing FLOW-3D/MP, a supported MPI library software should be installed. MPICH2-1.4 (Gigabit Ethernet) and Intel® MPI 4.0 (Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband) are supported on Linux platforms and MS® MPI is supported on Windows.
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