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Human Centric Innovation

in Action

Fujitsu Forum 2015

18th – 19th November


Computer Aided Engineering at BMW, Powered by High Performance Computing

Apps and Appliances, HPC insights for SMEs


Speaker 1 Wolfgang Burke, HPC Operation and Solution Build, BMW Group

Ian Godfrey, Solution Business Development, Fujitsu Systems Europe Speaker 2


Product Development Ecosystem

Automaker Sub-assembly suppliers

Consultants

Component manufacturers

Touchstone for an HPC community Domains of modelling and simulation

Model quality and precision

Project duration and constraints IDC 2015

BMW [among the] leaders for effectively exploiting HPC technology

Creative

Testing

Research Service providers


A BMW HPC “Cell” Powered by

Intel® Xeon®

Processor.

132 servers

Big node PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 Rack-Server

2xCPU Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 10C/20T 2.6 GHz 256 GB RAM, 3.15 TB HDD or 3.2 GB SSD

Compute node

PRIMERGY RX2530 M1 Rack-Server

2xCPU Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 10C/20T 2.6 GHz 128 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD

File server node


2xCPU Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 10C/20T 2.6 GHz 128 GB RAM, 36 TB HDD

Gateway node


2xCPU Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 10C/20T 2.6 GHz 16 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD

Fast Interconnect

Intel True Scale Fabric Switch 12300

2 core switches 36 port 40Gb/s 6 leaf switches 36 port 40Gb/s

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Defining an optimal architecture


Automotive HPC trends – Modelling & Simulation

Applications in the future

Full vehicle simulation (crash) Remove all prototypes Virtual Factory (idea-design-test-factory) Integration of higher manufacturing precision into the

simulation Variance on parts and impact on durability, safety, etc.

Aesthetics -- precise, ultra fine grid representation of design’s look, color, sheen, image Better ability to see a new design under multiple light

conditions, in different locations (showroom, on the street, by a mountain)

Virtual test track (long term durability)

Applications Today

Primarily Crash (60%-70% capability utilization)

Then CFD, then NVH

Product behaviour

Process integration Source: IDC 2015

More businesses looking at more potential for HPC


HPC potential for SMEs

HPC is distinguished by being applicable to problems at arbitrarily levels of scale

Used effectively, therefore, any enterprise of individual can derive value from HPC

European manufacturing production was €6.8B in 2012 – around 40% from firms with under 250 employees (SMEs)

Source: Economic Models For Financial ROI And Innovation From HPC Investments, IDC August 2015

Intersect360 Research

40–50% of small manufacturers view

R&D leadership as their competitive advantage.


SME challenges to adopt HPC

1. Lack of knowledge, or skilled HPC support staff

2. Lack of support by management

3. Financial barriers – budgets, system costs, other costs

4. Difficulties related to scaling

5. Ease-of-use issues


Insights into modelling & simulation

Too many smaller businesses not even doing FEA/CAE

Necessary first step towards HPC – but then come others

One thing to run a few jobs – another to embed HPC into regular engineering processes

Workforce profile threshold

Comfortable with physical testing

Unsure about virtual analysis

Different roles, different purposes

Enable design engineers – feedback, trade studies

Enable simulation analysts – verification

Economic pressure

Change drivers

Experimental constraints

Experienced recruit


Organisations need technical simulation, but seldom sophisticated HPC

Emerging concept of apps are an emerging part of the answer

Cross between workflow and traditional simulation suite

Usable by simulation analyst and design engineer

Apps need to speak language of intended user

Democratisation of CAE, and HPC

Process: Workflow capture – App creation – Controlled publication

Attempts to solve these problems to date tend to remain used by experts, or are brittle

80M Engineers + Non-engineers

A way forward

8M Engineers

750K CAE Users

Source: Cambashi, Beyond CAE, Front End Analytics (2014)


Increasing Usability

Embed expertise to avoids experts being the bottlenecks

Create access to capability for non-engineers, casual users and HPC newcomers

Simplicity Expertise


Spectrum of HPC users

Workgroup Under $100K

Departmental $100K-$250K

Divisional $250K-$500K

Supercomputer Above $500K


Increasing Accessibility

Workgroup Under $100K

Departmental $100K-$250K

Divisional $250K-$500K

Supercomputer Above $500K

PRIMEFLEX for HPC Appliance Line

Converged Infrastructure methodology

Dedicated processes

Application- and segment-defined architectures

Streamlined customer support with SPOC

Factory build, test and certification of appliance

Proactive performance analysis and design


PRIMEFLEX Line of Appliances

Management software

User workplace

PRIMEFLEX for HPC

HPC Gateway

Application Catalogue

System design Head node Compute nodes

Interconnect Graphics

Storage

Rack & Power

Batch Operation Administration

Application Appliance Platform Appliance

Powered by

Intel® Xeon®

Processor.


HPC Democratisation

HPC expert HPC consumers HPC calculators

Standardised processes

Optimal workflows

Traceability, machine

learning

Higher productivity and

throughput

New applications and

physics

New processes

First applications

New domains

Consumer processes

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