CD-adapco announced a new standard in performance and scalability for industrial CFD software. Working in partnership with the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and SICOS BW, STAR-CCM+® was run on the entirety of the 1.045 PetaFlop Hermit cluster, maintaining perfect scalability beyond 55,000 cores. The work was completed as part of the ongoing multi-year project to benchmark, profile and ensure optimal STAR-CCM+ performance and scalability on petascale computing systems. A number of different benchmark cases were run, ranging in size from 500 million to 2 billion cells, all generated automatically using parallel meshing technology and without the need to split the geometry into multiple blocks. "The ability to perform simulations with such massive core counts is a real breakthrough for the CAE industry, and a direct result of our close collaboration with HLRS,? said CD-adapco Senior VP of Product Management, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli.

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