Cfms project (asrc)
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CFMS is a not-for-profit organization committed to accelerating simulation design processes. It has established the CFMS Limited company and Advanced Simulation Research Centre facility to achieve its vision. The facility provides high-performance computing, visualization capabilities, and collaborative work spaces to support research and technology projects. CFMS engages organizations through its Associates Scheme, which aims to improve awareness of new technologies and methods through demonstrations, networking, and other activities.
Cfms project (asrc)
- 1. Presented by Michael Davies CFMS-ASRC Business Manager CFMS-ASRC Bristol, September 2011
- 2. advanced simulation research centre
- 3. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION What is CFMS? āCFMS is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, committed to accelerating the delivery of more intuitive and powerful design processes.ā
- 4. Rolls-Royce data-strictly private CFMS Limited ā¢ A not for profit company, limited by guarantee has been established to manage delivery of the CFMS Vision via the CFMS Framework* ā¢ The company is known as CFMS Ltd ā¢ Member Companies are: ā¢ Airbus ā¢ BAE Systems ā¢ Frazer-Nash Consultancy ā¢ MBDA UK ā¢ Rolls-Royce ā¢ Williams F1 ā¢ Activities carried out by CFMS Ltd include: ā¢ Technology road-mapping ā¢ Project scoping and facilitation ā¢ Project management support ā¢ Facilities provision ā¢ All services are available to organisations beyond the Member companies of CFMS Ltd The CFMS Framework is a co-ordinated programme of research and technology deployment projects, the scope of which has been defined to achieve the CFMS Vision *
- 5. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION Advanced Simulation Research Centre ļ Created to challenge our perceptions of a ātraditional working environmentā ā¢ On-site HPC cluster ā¢ IT Lab (flexible infrastructure) ā¢ Visualisation suite ā¢ Integration room ā¢ Collaborative working areas ā¢ Hot-desking and touchdown-desking ā¢ Meeting rooms & conference facilities ā¢ Break-out areas āAn inspiring and stimulating environment to encourage collaboration and innovation, alongside the cutting-edge facilities required to support the development and demonstration of the latest technologiesā
- 6. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION Associates Scheme ļ Primary method of CFMS engagement ļ Brings together end users, technology developers and researchers ļ Unique programme of activities to improve awareness and identify longer-term developments ā¢ Best practice exchange ā¢ Road-mapping ā¢ Demonstrations ā¢ Networking ā¢ Forums ā¢ Technical notes/white papers ā¢ Newsletters āIntroduce organisations to technologies and methodologies which will make their design processes quicker, cheaper and more effectiveā
- 8. Facility elements Capability Lab a facility to support collaborative research & development HPC ā High Performance Computer IT laboratory a facility to support R&D in emerging IT architectures
- 9. ļ¬ An open plan office space, with flexible partitioning ļ¬ Focus on supporting CFMS programmes and methods developments ļ¬ Front office: ļ¬ Desktop clients with docking stations for āapprovedā laptops ļ¬ Wireless internet access, ļ¬ Wired access to HPC and IT Lab ļ¬ Visualisation/Integration/Conferencing/Meeting Rooms ļ¬ Back office servers: ļ¬ 18 Xeon-based severs (development, code, email,ā¦etc) ļ¬ 3.6TB storage ļ¬ Software stacks Capability Lab
- 10. HPC ļ¬ 2880 core clusters ā latest Nehalem (six-core) chipset - Fast file server : 60TB usable - QDR IB interconnect, 40Gbps bandwidth - IBM iDataPlex, with water-cooled rear doors ļ¬ 1440 cores Rolls-Royce, 720 cores Airbus, 720 cores third-party ļ¬ Head/login nodes ļ¬ 2 x PostProcessing-nodes ļ¬ 2 X Visualisation nodes, with Nvidia Quadroplex 2200S4 GPUs ļ¬ OS: RHE v5.4 ļ¬ Scheduler: SunGridEngine
- 11. Rolls-Royce data-strictly private Facility floor plan * Ground Floor Layout ITLab HPC v v v v Venus Integration Room Mars Visualisation Zone Game Zone Break-out Zone 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 21 23 24 Venus Integration Room Mars Visualisation Zone Max capacity = 25 people (8 people in baseline layout) Max capacity = 25 people (12 people in baseline layout)
- 12. Rolls-Royce data-strictly private Facility floor plan * First Floor Layout CFMS ASRC ASRC ASRC ASRC Saturn Room Jupiter Room Mercury Room Neptune Room Transit Zone 5 6 4 3 1 2 Neptune Room Mercury Room Saturn RoomJupiter Room Transit Zone 7 8 9 Max capacity = 40 people in seminar room layout (24 people in training room layout) Max capacity = 25 people in seminar room layout (16 people in training room layout) Max capacity = 20 people in seminar room layout (6people with baseline layout) Max capacity = 14 people in seminar room layout (4people +2 desks with baseline layout) Capacity = 6 people with baseline layout 10 11 12 13 14
- 13. Rolls-Royce data-strictly private Organisation Member Organisations RR, Airbus, Williams F1, Fraser Nash, MBDA, BAE CFMS Board B Barzegar, I Martindale, P Best, N Buckland, A Burns, G Gapper, B Davis ASRC Board Martin Aston Frank McQuade Carolyn Webb Andy Williams Implementation Manager Mike Davies Business Manager Zoe Thorne Administrator Neil Whyld Paul Edwards Outreach Manager Technical controller Operations/Facilities Nathan Harper IBM Support
- 14. Thank you for your attention