AWS HPC Blog
Author: Matt Broadfoot
Matt Broadfoot is a the Snr EU Fire Strategy Manager within Amazon Design & Construction covering the UK/ EU & EMEA regions. He is fire engineer with global experience of developing fire strategy solutions across multiple sectors from heritage to transport hub and storage.
Running large-scale CFD fire simulations on AWS for Amazon.com
In this blog post, we discuss the AWS solution that Amazon’s construction division used to conduct large-scale CFD fire simulations as part of their Fire Strategy solutions to demonstrate safety and fire mitigation strategies. We outline the five key steps taken that resulted in simulation times that were 15-20x faster than previous on-premises architectures, reducing the time to complete from up to twenty-one days to less than one day.