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By Lee Fisher, Hewlett-Packard, Burlington, MA and Stewart Featherstone, Fluent Inc. The Intel® Itanium 2® processor, introduced in mid-2002, is designed for floating- point intensive 64-bit applications running on servers, clusters, and workstations. Codeveloped with HP, this architecture has made headlines for its parallel processing design and future roadmap. A fully tested version of FLUENT (FLUENT 6.1.18) for the Itanium 2/HP-UX 11i platform is now available for download from the User Services Center. Benchmarks have demonstrated significant performance gains compared to earlier HP-UX PA-RISC workstations.
The Itanium 2/HP-UX system installed in Visteon's data center in December 2002Visteon Corporation has been an early adopter of the new Intel/HP architecture, and is using it for production runs. This leading Tier I automotive supplier uses FLUENT for critical analysis of automotive climate control subsystems. By selecting an Itanium/HP-UX server solution, Visteon has been able to reduce cost, meet the growing performance requirements of its CAE users, and bring all numerically intensive computation into one centralized facility. Itanium has delivered a flexible solution for the wide variety of structural analysis, CFD, and crash codes that Visteon uses to support their automotive OEM customers. Fluent and HP continue to enhance FLUENT performance on this platform. Recent optimization work has resulted in gains that average 47% on benchmark test cases. A prototype of this further optimized version is now available by special request, and a fully tested maintenance release is planned for the summer. Fluent and HP are also working to develop a port to the Itanium/Linux platform. |
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