Why HP for SIMULIA/Abaqus Christine Fronczak, HP SIMULIA Alliance Manager Sharon Shaw, HP Abaqus Optimization Engineer February, 2009 Why Hewlett-Packard is the Platform of Choice for Abaqus • HP Throughput and Raw Performance Leadership for Abaqus • HP/SIMULIA Technical Partnership • Renowned HP Reliability and Scalable Computing Product Line Breadth • Customer Choice and Return-On-Investment with HP BladeSystem Clusters Example Platform Choices for Abaqus News: SIMULIA announced fall’08 that Itanium/HP-UX platform in v6.9 is available only on special request. Itanium/Linux remains at standard platform support. BL870c 4p/8c Blade HP-UX & Linux64 up to 96GB rx8640 Superdome 16p/32c Linux64 & HP-UX up to 64p/128c Linux64 & HP-UX CP3000/CP4000 Linux or Win HPC 2008 Itanium Servers for ABAQUS/Standard nodes: DL160 or BL465c (2p/8c) GigE or InfiniBand XC or Partner-based Middleware (great throughput on all solvers; easy admin; adaptive enterprise) HP X64 Clusters for ABAQUS/Explicit (best price/performance) News: over the past few years xw8600 xw9400 64-bit Workstations for Engineers DL380G5 DL785 2p/8c Xeon QC 8p/32c Opteron QC Linux64 & Win64 Linux64 & Win64 8-32 Core Servers for Abaqus (fast; all solvers; easy admin; large memory) Abaqus has been rearchitected to run jobs in parallel on distributed memory clusters, with scalability improving in each new release. This opens a new choice for Abaqus users. 11/08 Meet Shorty – www.hp.com/go/shorty an easily deployed cluster for Abaqus (optional) • Modular C3000 design enables mix of direct attached disk and compute nodes for Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit • 120volt / 30amp precludes 3 phase 240v wiring • Choice of GigE or InfiniBand interconnect with HP-MPI running on Windows or Linux • Consider DC Xeon X5260 or QC Opteron • Consider turnkey XC middleware for Linux Configure Here: http://h20311.www2.hp.com/HPC/cache/568351-0-0-0-121.html Find HP Resellers: www.hp.com/go/cae then click “HP Resellers & Partners” x64 SuperCluster for Abaqus • one rack with 3 c-Class enclosures and 192 cores • XC software (with LSF & HP-MPI licenses) • 1 head node (DL380G5, 8GB mem, 4x146GB disk) • 48 compute nodes (16 2p/4c hh blades per enclosure) − two 3.33GHz dual core Xeon5260 processors − 2GB/core − two 146GB SAS internal disks • 4xDDR InfiniBand cluster interconnect − 1:1 within an enclosure of 64 cores − 2:1 between the two enclosures • Ethernet management/console switches, TFT monitor/keyboard • Services − factory integration & on-site h/w s/w installation − 3 year S/W and Next Day hardware support Note: Abaqus/Standard benefits from InfiniBand’s low latency and 2nd disk/node; but for Abaqus/Explicit only, save $ with GigE switch and one 36GB disk per node Status of Abaqus on HP 64-bit systems • Abaqus 6.9 in 2009 will be available on the Itanium/HP-UX platform only upon special request. Itanium/Linux remains at standard platform support. • Abaqus 6.8 released 20-May-08 with platform support shown below − new Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) analysis capability supports parallel processing − solver enhancements to reduce memory / disk usage and improve scaling − supports 64-bit Windows CCS, Windows Server 2008, SLES10.2, RHEL5 & HP-UX • Abaqus 6.7 enhanced parallel execution on clusters (May-07) • Abaqus 6.6 first distributed HP-MPI as part of Abaqus (6.6.1 Apr-06) 2008 Platform Support Matrix www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_platforms.html HP Workstation Family for CAE pre/post processing HP xw4600 HP xw8600 HP xw9400 Processor 64-bit Intel Core2 Duo 2p/8c 64-bit Intel Xeon 5400 2p/8c 64-bit AMD Quad Core 2200 Chipset Intel 975X Express Intel 5400 NVIDIA nForce Pro 3600 Graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Memory Up to 8 GB Up to 128 GB Up to 64 GB Operating system Windows64 or Linux Windows64 or Linux Windows64 or Linux SIMULIA selects HP systems SIMULIA headquarters develops on HP systems − 128 cores (32 nodes) HP XC3000BL cluster of Xeon3160 blades with 328 GB memory, 10TB disk, and Voltaire InfiniBand (see picture) − 64 cores (16 nodes) HP XC4000 cluster of Opteron DL servers − 16 core Itanium rx8600/HP-UX server − June, 2008 Upgrade: third enclosure added as shown using dual core X5260 (Wolfdale) 3.3GHz processors for a total of 192 cores SIMULIA sales offices use Itanium2/HP-UX servers − at SIMULIA East/Erie/Central/Great Lakes/West and Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom − in July, 2005 SIMULIA Japan procured two rx4640 servers & cluster of 4 rx1620 nodes to support users SIMULIA headquarters uses HP workstations − in 2006-2/07 Abaqus bought ~75 xw4000 and 4 xw9000 Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit Performance Data For performance data of Standard and Explicit on HP servers, register at: www.hp.com/go/simulia HP: Platform of Choice for Abaqus 