25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-2.6.2

COST-EFFICIENT USE OF PARALLEL COMPUTERS IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN

M. Sillén
Saab Aerosystems, Sweden

Keywords: Linux-cluster, Parallel performance, CFD, Cluster configuration

CFD is an important tool in aircraft design. To achieve short turn-around-time for flow solutions parallel computers are used where especially PC-clusters have gained popularity. Hardware and software factors influencing the CFD-code performance on large PC-clusters are investigated with the goal of improving total performance and cost-efficiency for large CFD-simulations.

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