Example of a machine with a budget of 100 million for CFD analysis

■ This is an article posted on June 2016, 9, so the content of the information may be out of date.

The customer asked us to introduce a calculation server whose main purpose is to run the thermal fluid analysis solver STAR-CCM +, MATLAB, etc. with a budget of about 100 million.

At the time of your inquiry, the customer seemed uncertain whether to prioritize CPU or clock or parallel. Most of the CFD analysis software is specialized for parallel, so if there is little difference in the number of CPU cores to select, I think that there may be a choice to emphasize the clock, but if the difference in the number of cores becomes large Think that it is desirable to attach importance to the number of cores. Therefore, this time, we proposed a specification with as many cores as possible within the budget.

In addition, I was hoping for a video card that could process the analysis results of a little less than 1000 million analysis grids to some extent, so I chose NVIDIA Quadro M2000.

【Main Specifications】

CPU Xeon E5-2680v4 (2.40GHz 14 cores) x2 (28 cores in total)
memory 64GB ECC REG
storage HDD 1TB
network Gigabit LAN x2
video Quadro M2000
Housing + power supply Tower housing + 850W power supply
OS 7 CentOS