Volvo Cars buys SGI 3800 for crash simulationsGothenburg 09 August 2001 Volvo Cars' department of development in Gothenburg, Sweden, has invested in an SGI Origin 3800 server from SGI in order to increase computing performance when conducting crash simulations as part of the development of safer cars. The agreement with Volvo Cars is SGI's biggest deal so far in Sweden and will include consulting services.
Volvo Cars' Safety Center, which includes approximately 25 computational
engineers, uses the computer to evaluate construction proposals during the
night. They are then analyzed the following day.
The SGI Origin 3800
server has 128 CPUs, 128 Gbyte of memory and two 5 Tbyte disks. The code for the
software Radioss has been specially adapted for use on RISC-based CPUs because
crash simulations on RISC-based CPUs are faster than on vector-based CPUs. This
marks one of the first times that this version of Radioss is being used for
crash simulations in car development projects.
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