Panasas and CD-adapco Partner
For the CAE market
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 21, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Panasas, Inc.
announced that it has forged a strategic alliance with Computer
Aided Engineering (CAE) market leader CD-adapco.
Recent certification
of CD-adapco’s STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+ Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
software on Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage delivers new and
significant performance advantages for a broad range of CAE
simulations. The industry benefit is faster time to solution, which
allows companies and organizations within the automotive, aerospace,
turbo machinery, oil and gas, and other industries to be more
productive and more profitable.
"The synergy between CD-adapco software and Panasas
ActiveStor parallel storage is a prime example of parallel storage
delivering tangible benefits to industries that depend on
data-intensive CAE applications," said Len Rosenthal, chief marketing
officer at Panasas. "The combined solution eliminates performance and
scalability bottlenecks and enables engineers and scientists to run
larger, more complex models with faster time to results."
The manufacturing market is constantly striving to reduce
design cycle times and costs, satisfy global regulations on safety and
environmental concerns, and respond to customers who demand
high-quality, well-designed products. The use of CAE technology with
powerful and cost-effective x86-based compute clusters is critical to
address these business challenges, yet I/O requirements of advanced CAE
simulations have increasingly become a bottleneck that impedes overall
workflow productivity and time to market. CD-adapco has a parallel I/O scheme in STAR-CD v3.2 that
leverages the Panasas PanFS parallel file system for extended STAR-CD
scalability and multi-job throughput. As CFD model sizes grow and
cluster core counts are increased, I/O operations must be performed in
parallel to realize the full benefits of scalable CFD.
CD-adapco
and Panasas are in collaboration to deliver similar parallel I/O
capability to future releases of STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+. Scalability of both computation and I/O operations increases
productivity by ensuring maximum cluster utilization, because jobs run
in parallel allowing more CFD simulations to be completed in less time.
Scalable STAR-CD and Panasas parallel storage have been deployed in
environments running design applications for power generation,
formula-1 motor sports, and automotive internal combustion engines.
Panasas storage is also deployed within CD-adapco’s own CAE consulting
services, an important revenue stream for the company. Panasas is the
exclusive storage vendor for their biggest cluster at the Detroit
consulting center.
"We are delighted with our Panasas collaboration as it
delivers immediate improvements in simulation scalability and workflow
efficiency for our customers," said Steve MacDonald, president and
co-founder of CD-adapco. "The performance advantages of a Panasas and
CD-adapco solution validate our shared commitment to addressing the
most demanding CAE simulation requirements. This solution has helped us
meet the expanding CAE objectives of our customers."
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