Ansys LS-Dyna

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2021: Support for Fujitsu PrimeHPC FX1000 and FX700 supercomputers

On October 21, 2021, Ansys introduced the CAE system for solving Ansys LS-Dyna strength problems.

Ansys LS-Dyna

According to the company, Ansys LS-Dyna is a commercial CAE system for solving strength problems, supporting the 64-bit ARM architecture based on the FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX1000 and FX700 supercomputer.

The demand for high-performance computing (high-performance computing,), HPC which may require a large amount of consumption, energy is growing every year. At the same time, companies are working on sustainable development initiatives. Green computing projects reduce energy consumption and reduce emissions, as well as lower cost of ownership for customers. Support for LS-Dyna on the Fujitsu hardware platform will help the Ansys user optimize power consumption and costs by offloading CAE calculations to a more energy-efficient supercomputer.

Fujitsu is pleased to make LS-Dyna available for the PRIMEHPC series based on the same architecture as the Fugaku supercomputer. We look forward to working with suppliers to optimize commercial applications for the PRIMEHPC series, while offering it to manufacturers and other companies so that the results of this work can be used in industry. told Masahide Fujisaki, Executive Director, Business Strategies, Infrastructure Systems Division, Fujitsu Limited

In the future, Ansys will integrate FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000 and FX700 support into additional software solutions and expand LS-Dyna availability for other Arm-based solution providers.

Ansys LS-DYNA is a commercial computer-aided design (CAE) system for solving strength problems, which supports FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX1000 and FX700 supercomputers based on Arm. Our work with Fujitsu allows us to overcome hardware limitations and more sustainably achieve production goals. told Shane Emswiler, Senior Vice President, Products, Ansys

A single precision version of the Ansys solver is already available. A double-precision solver version will be available in 2022. The first results of using a single-precision version on the PRIMEHPC FX1000 show performance more than 2 times that of the PRIMEHPC FX100.

Everyone who monitors the development of modern computing technologies in general and CAE solutions in particular can observe a growing trend towards the transition from traditional x86-64 processor architecture to Arm-based processors. If a few years ago the Arm architecture was the destination of mobile devices, then as of October 2021 it is used in the computing (cloud Amazon Web Servises partner Ansys Cloud) in the AWS Graviton series. Of course, CAE developers cannot ignore the current situation. Despite the fact that most commercial computing codes have several decades of history, their code will sooner or later have to be transferred to processor architectures. The Ansys LST team made this one of the first to move LS-Dyna to Arm. This is due, among other things, to the experience of developers who at different times collected solver code for such architectures as, x86-64,, IBM Power8 Intel IA64 and, and SPARK also worked effectively not only in public and, but also operating systems Windows Linux had specialized solutions for rarer, and Cary macOS. SGI reported Yuri Novozhilov, Head of High-Energy and High-Performance Directions at KADFEM-Si-Ai-Es JSC