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SGI and ESI Group Solve Scalability Problems Associated With Designing Finely Detailed Car Simulations.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 26-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
SGI Altix 3000 Achieves Highest Performance in Crash Simulation With PAM-CRASH 2004 Models Eight Times Larger Than Industry Practice

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Manufacturers today struggle to reduce delays in product design as they work with more and more refined models. To keep up with these time and quality constraints, they look for solutions that can scale with their growing needs. Silicon Graphics and ESI Group (ISIN FR0004110310) today announced they have pushed scalability to new extremes, enabling users to run a crash simulation model eight times larger than today's standard industry practice. The achievement represents a significant competitive advantage for automotive designers confronted with ever growing model sizes and shrinking turnaround time.

Today the typical full car simulation model size is 1.1 million elements and can be run overnight. In recent tests, SGI with ESI Group successfully ran a model of 9.1 million elements at 338.20 gigaflops per second performance on an SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700...

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