CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 May 2004
Company News
ANSYS Breaks Engineering Simulation Solution Barrier
ANSYS, Inc. announced that it has become the first engineering simulation company to solve a structural analysis model with more than 100 million degrees of freedom (DOF), making it possible for ANSYS customers to solve models of aircraft engines, automobiles, construction equipment and other complete systems.
In a joint effort with Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( http://www.sgi.com ) (SGI), the 111 million DOF structural analysis problem was completed in only a few hours using an SGI® Altix® computer. DOF refers to the number of equations being solved in an analysis giving an indication of a model's size.
To showcase the milestone, ANSYS technical staff will demonstrate the capability today during its 2004 International ANSYS Conference in Pittsburgh.
"ANSYS' ability to solve models this large opens the door to an entirely new simulation paradigm. Prior to this capability, a simulation could be conducted only at a less detailed level for a complete model or only at the individual component level for a detailed model. Now, it will be possible to simulate a detailed, complete model directly; potentially shortening design time from months to weeks. Equally important, having a high fidelity comprehensive model can allow trouble spots to be detected much earlier in the design process. This may greatly reduce additional design costs and can provide an even shorter time to market," said Jin Qian, senior analyst at Deere & Company Technical Center.
"The advances that ANSYS ( http://www.ansys.com ) has made in enabling engineers to simulate the largest models at high levels of detail promises to deliver significant value to SGI Altix customers," said Dave Parry, senior vice president and general manager, Server and Platform Group at SGI. "This capability takes full advantage of the Altix system's unique ability to combine leading-edge computation performance with very large memory, making ANSYS and Altix a powerful solution for CAE simulation. We are pleased that our collaboration with ANSYS will continue to advance customer capabilities for their CAE needs today and as their requirements grow."
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