hpcLine Application Software StatusMunich 30 October 2000 Application software is the most important issue on new hardware platforms. With the hpcLine parallelised engineering applications are extremely important. In the meantime more ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) ported their software on hpcLine.
Fujitsu Siemens success in selling hpcLine also in industry caused several ISVs to port their software on this platform. FEKO, electromagnetic compatibility, Magmasoft, CFX, Fluent, Comet and Star-hpc are now available. MSC Software is in discussions with Fujitsu Siemens representatives concerning the hpcLine. Nastran is available for Linux with MPI and on the hpcLine with an mpich version, while Marc is only in Linux with MPI. Mr. Kirsch, Fujitsu Siemens, presented some benchmark results concerning CFDRC, a computational fluid dynamics software which includes chemistry.
Two hpcLine systems at BMW and DaimlerChrysler are run FEKO. Kirsch mentioned that industrial customers do not ask for the highest performance but for highest price/performance. They want to solve their jobs in a fixed time.
There are more packages in the porting phase, e.g. Acusim and Acusolve, simulating the climate and cooling in cars and the chemistry package MoPac2000. More information: http://www.hpcline.com.
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