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The High Performance Computing
Division of MSC.Software
Dr. Stefan Mayer
Business Manager
HPC Solutions Center Europe
Update MSC.Software
• MSC has been recognized
as „Nastran company“ for
decades
• Built extensive service
offerings during the past
years
– Engineering Services
– Process Design and
Automation
– Simulation Data
Management
– Trainings
– IT Services
• 1999 new engineering.ecom division:
www.engineering-e.com
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• 2000 new MSC.Linux division
• 2001 acquisition of AES, leading provider
of systems, software and services in the
area of PLM in North America
• MSC.Software today offers all
components of „simulation solutions“ –
software, systems and services
• MSC.Linux Division extended to High
Performance Computing Division
– Offer Unix know-how to customers as well
– Simulation offerings extended to life sciences
Update MSC.Software
• HPC Division headquartered in Santa Ana,
Calif.; HPC Solutions Center in Munich
MSC.Software‘s IT Offerings
Software
Systems
Services
General Purpose
Simulation
High Performance
Computing (Linux/Unix)
Integrations
Services
Simulation Data
Management
Work Group Computing
(Unix, Linux, NT)
Product
Support & Services
Design & Manufacturing
CATIA
Enterprise Computing
Process & IT
Consulting & Services
Product Data Mgmt.
ENOVIA & SmartTeam
Infrastructure
(Storage, Network)
Engineering & Design
Services
Education & Training
Services
MSC.Software‘s HPC Strategy
• Linux (32 and 64 bit) and Unix (incl. SMP servers)
• Clusters and single machines
• Complete solution – hardware, operating system,
middleware, application, IT services from a single
provider – MSC.Software
• Hardware partners
• Leverage MSC.Software‘s reputation in Linux and
Unix solutions
• MSC.Linux is preferred Linux for technical HPC of
several hardware and software partners
MSC.Linux
• Why MSC.Software and Linux?
– Fill gap “Technical High Performance Computing Using
Linux”
– MSC.Software has detailed know-how in all components,
which are required for a complete solution
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Hardware
Operating System
Middleware
Applications
IT Services (incl. support and training)
– Reliable partner since 1963, no start-up
– Close cooperation with Intel, all major hardware vendors
and many software partners for many years
MSC provides integrated, customized solutions for
technical High Performance Computing using Linux
MSC.Linux Operating System
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Goal: best suited out-of-the-box distribution for
technical High Performance Computing for Intel
architectures
Supports Files > 2GB, browser based installation and
administration, 2.34 GB memory for MSC.Nastran using
Linux (<900 MB for all other distributions), etc.
LSB compatible
Development strongly driven by requirements from
projects for customers
Current release is MSC.Linux 2001 August (2.4 Kernel,
FireGL2, NFS V3, XFS, RAID-1 with XFS, etc.), IA-64 in
April
MSC.Linux is particularly well suited for Linux clusters
MSC.Linux mainly intended for configuration of turnkey
hardware/software solutions
IPF (IA-64) Activities
• All MSC.Software applications will be ported to IPF (IA-64)
• Results for MSC.Nastran 2001 standard benchmark XL0TDF1
• MSC.Linux will support IA-64 starting from April
• Further boost expected with McKinley
High-end Unix/Linux SMP
• Differentiators of high-end UNIX/Linux SMP
systems, incl. IA-64, compared to IA-32 Linux
– >>2GB per analysis job
– >>1 processors in one system
Typical HPC Architecture
Compute Nodes Application 1
Compute Nodes Application 3
LAN
Interconnection Network
MSC.Linux /
Unix Head Node
and/or
Management
Node(s)
Compute Nodes Application 2
Compute Nodes Application 4
IT Services
• System design
• Implementation
– Hardware set-up, for example rack
integration
– Installation, configuration, test of hardware,
operating system, middleware, application
software (incl. reselling of HW vendor
services)
– Installation, configuration and test of image
server
– Installation, configuration and test of
monitoring and alerting (clusters)
– Installation, configuration and test of
queuing system
IT Services
• MSC.Batch Submit (for Linux clusters): Web portal
to submit and monitor jobs
– Platform independent
– Based on LAMP architecture (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP)
– Can be extended and customized according to
requirements of customers
IT Services
• Web tools to manage LSF
• Computation services: benchmarks,
production runs of customer jobs
• (On-site) Training
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
consulting
• MSC.Linux support
• Dedicated support e-mail address, for
example
[email protected]
• Remote access (support, operation)
• Hardware maintenance contracts
HPC Solutions
• Continued optimization of the interoperation of
hardware-operating system-application yields
excellent results
– Example: MSC.Nastran running under Linux
SOL103, BIW, 1.8 mio dof
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HPC Solutions
• MSC HPC solutions not „only“ for
MSC.Nastran, not „only“ for Linux
– MSC.Marc
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– LS-DYNA: see www.feainformation.com
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2001 Successes
• Approx. 30 new customers
• Customers turn to MSC.Software because of our application,
HPC and OS know-how (Linux and Unix)
• Focus on Linux (clusters) and mixed Unix/Linux environments
• Reference customers available, for example European car
manufacturer and research institute