Head of Leveraging LS-DYNA Explicit, Implicit, Hybrid technologies with SGI hardware, Cyclone Cloud Bursting and d3VIEW

LSTC Explicit, Implicit solver technologies are closely integrated following LSTC's single executable strategy. Seamless switching from large time steps transient dynamics to linear statics and normal modes analysis can thus consistently exploit latest algorithm improvements in Shared Memory Parallelism (SMP), Distributed Memory Parallelism (DMP) and their combination (Hybrid Mode) and leverage SGI computer architectures using SGI's software stack, establishing `topcrunch' world records since 2007. 7KLV SDSHU ZLOO VKRZ KRZ WKLV LV DFFRPSOLVKHG RQ 6*,¶V PXOWi-node Distributed Memory Processor ® ® clusters such as SGI Rackable and SGI ICETM X up to Shared Memory Processor servers such as SGI® UV 2000 all available in SGI® CycloneŒ. Cyclone is a LS-DYNA® cloud computing service provided in partnership with LSTC. This paper will discuss how customers are using SGI's compute and storage infrastructure to run LS-DYNA simulations in a massively scalable environment. SGI's front-end to Cyclone is powered by d3VIEW Œ, a web portal based software used to submit, monitor and view results without the need to download large files. d3VIEW's SimlyzerŒ technology performs post-simulation analysis and visualization that is proven to eliminate over 80% of the LS- DYNA post processing repetitive tasks with no necessary scripting.