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20Gb/s InfiniBand Connectivity for Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
High-performance computing is a crucial tool for automotive design and manufacturing. It is used in mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) from component-level to full structural analyses: structural integrity, airflow motions and crash simulations, thermal management, climate control, engine modeling, exhaust, acoustics and much more. HPC helps drive accelerated speed to market, significant cost reductions, and tremendous flexibility. The strength in HPC is the ability to achieve best sustained performance by driving the CPU performance towards its limits.
Figure: Thermal comfort CFD simulation Figure: Volvo crash simulation
Faster Development Process
From concept to engineering, and from design to test and manufacturing, the manufacturing industry relies on powerful virtual development solutions. For example, CFD and crash simulations are performed in an effort to secure quality while speeding the development process. High-performance cluster solutions maximize the total value of ownership for CAE environments and extend innovation in virtual product development.
HPC cluster environments impose high demands for cluster connectivity throughput, low-latency, low CPU overhead, network flexibility and high-efficiency in order to maintain a balanced system and to achieve high application performance and scaling. Low-performance interconnect solutions, or lack of interconnect hardware capabilities will result in degraded system and application performance, and therefore a degradation of CAE simulation.
Increase Processor Efficiency
Mellanox’s high-performance, InfiniBand connectivity maximizes the cluster compute environment’s efficiency and scalability. Mellanox’s InfiniBand architecture is based on a full CPU offload approach with the flexibility of RDMA capabilities for reducing the traditional network protocol from the CPU and increasing the processor efficiency.
World-Class Performance
Mellanox’s 20Gb/s InfiniBand is designed for multi-core environments and can efficiently handle multiple data streams simultaneously, while at the same time, guarantee fast and reliable data transfer for each of the streams. With latency as low as 1usec, Mellanox InfiniBand enables scalable, fast communication among the processing units. For CAE applications, Mellanox InfiniBand provides a balanced compute system that maximizes the performance of HPC clusters and the efficiency of the CAE simulations.
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