Untitled document
Application Performance Optimization

Learn about 64-bit Linux® OS-based solutions that drive superior performance from leading software applications.

This brief details how big memory breakthroughs have enabled an order-of-magnitude speed-up in CAE model processing by combining major advancements in the SGI Altix computing platform architecture, Intel Itanium 2 processor architecture and ANSYS code.  

Solving 111 Million Degrees of Freedom
This brief details how big memory breakthroughs have enabled an order-of-magnitude speed-up in CAE model processing by combining major advancements in the SGI Altix computing platform architecture, Intel Itanium 2 processor architecture and ANSYS code.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a powerful engineering and design tool. Engineers are continually looking to solve larger and more complex flow dynamics problems, including time-varying flows. Scalability becomes very important for these complex CFD problems, requiring a combination of software and hardware that scale well together. This paper demonstrates how Fluent software running on SGI Altix systems with the Intel Itanium 2 processor, provide the performance to help engineers accelerate design processes and shorten time to market.  

Exploiting the Power and Scalability of FLUENT on SGI Altix Systems
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a powerful engineering and design tool. Engineers are continually looking to solve larger and more complex flow dynamics problems, including time-varying flows. Scalability becomes very important for these complex CFD problems, requiring a combination of software and hardware that scale well together. This paper demonstrates how Fluent software running on SGI Altix systems with the Intel Itanium 2 processor, provide the performance to help engineers accelerate design processes and shorten time to market.

Prepare to conquer the challenge of building the ideal high performance computing infrastructure for today's CAE environments. This white paper reviews all the potential pitfalls and explains how SGI solutions can help you avoid them.  

SGI Multi-Discipline Simulation Solutions
Prepare to conquer the challenge of building the ideal high performance computing infrastructure for today's CAE environments. This white paper reviews all the potential pitfalls and explains how SGI solutions can help you avoid them.

Learn how Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), with its LS-DYNA solution, together with the SGI Altix platform running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, opens up dramatic new possibilities to design engineers by greatly reducing the time needed for crash analysis, and enabling them to simulate longer and more complex events.  

Livermore Software Technology Corporation: Leading-edge Crash Simulation
Learn how Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), with its LS-DYNA solution, together with the SGI Altix platform running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, opens up dramatic new possibilities to design engineers by greatly reducing the time needed for crash analysis, and enabling them to simulate longer and more complex events.

The functionality of OpenEye Scientific Software products OMEGA, ROCS, and EON is described along with details on the Itanium® 2-based SGI® Altix® family of servers. Performance characteristics of these leading edge software and hardware tools are also provided.  

OpenEye Scientific Software: Drug Discovery The Best in Class Tools for Competitive Advantage
The functionality of OpenEye Scientific Software products OMEGA, ROCS, and EON is described along with details on the Itanium® 2-based SGI® Altix® family of servers. Performance characteristics of these leading edge software and hardware tools are also provided.

This paper surveys the SGI Altix system and MSC.Nastran performance for FEA problems, and then describes the technologies behind the solution's performance that enable high productivity in industrial computing.  

Meeting the High-performance Demands of Industrial Computing with Itanium® 2-based systems for SGI® Altix® Servers
This paper surveys the SGI Altix system and MSC.Nastran performance for FEA problems, and then describes the technologies behind the solution's performance that enable high productivity in industrial computing.

This paper describes certain facets of the field of nanotechnology research, defines computing requirements, and provides a case study illustrating the benefits offered by the Intel Itanium 2-based SGI Altix family of servers running Gaussian.  

Nanotechnology Research: Enabling Technologies for Innovative New Materials
This paper describes certain facets of the field of nanotechnology research, defines computing requirements, and provides a case study illustrating the benefits offered by the Intel Itanium 2-based SGI Altix family of servers running Gaussian.

This paper describes certain aspects of the field of Materials Research, defines computing requirements, provides performance results for a number of key applications (Gaussian, VASP, GAMESS, Amber, CHARMm), and presents a case study highlighting the advantages offered by the Intel Itanium 2-based SGI Altix family of servers running VASP.  

Materials Research: Evolving Science Dedicated to Improving Products
This paper describes certain aspects of the field of Materials Research, defines computing requirements, provides performance results for a number of key applications (Gaussian, VASP, GAMESS, Amber, CHARMm), and presents a case study highlighting the advantages offered by the Intel Itanium 2-based SGI Altix family of servers running VASP.