Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on AWS allows you to run your simulations faster and run more of them simultaneously with no queues. Customers such as Formula 1, INEOS, Dallara, Joby Aviation and many more use AWS to accelerate their product design and innovate faster. It’s easy to get started, just follow our workshop for a step by step guide to launch an HPC cluster and start running popular codes like Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent, and OpenFOAM.
AWS CFD workshops
Learn how you can use some of the most popular CFD codes like Simcenter STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, Ansys Fluent on AWS with AWS ParallelCluster. Follow along to the workshops linked below, and use the example submission scripts to get started running your own CFD workloads on AWS.
Featured customers
Dallara
Using AWS, Dallara built an HPC system that met its benchmarks for performance and cost, leading the company to continue designing some of the world’s fastest and most aerodynamic vehicles such as Indy and Formula race cars.
Formula One
By relying on Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances, F1 has already lowered the cost of running its CFD workloads by 30 percent and anticipates even more savings.
INEOS Team UK
INEOS team UK was able to process thousands of design simulations for their America’s Cup 4X faster on AWS compared to their on-premises environment.
Flying Whales
By using Elastic Fabric Adapter and AWS ParallelCluster, FLYING WHALES was able to run CFD simulations to design their 60-ton payload cargo ships up to 15X faster on AWS.
Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation was able to reduce CFD simulation run time from what would have taken a week on-premises to 24 hours on AWS.
How AWS' infrastructure takes your CFD to the next level
The flexibility of the AWS infrastructure means that whatever your CFD workload, from complex fluid flows involving turbulence to acoustics and electromagnetics, there’s an Amazon EC2 instance to suit. Intel Xeon processor-based instances such as C5n with Elastic Fabric Adaptor (EFA) ensure that up to 100 Gbps of bandwidth is made available for complex simulations. Flexible configuration and virtually unlimited scalability enable you to grow and shrink your infrastructure as your CFD workloads demand.
Enhancing CFD with Elastic Fabric Adapter
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface that relies on a custom-built OS-bypass technique to speed up communication between compute instances. It enables customers to scale their applications to tens of thousands of CPU cores. Advances in CFD algorithms enable engineers to simulate increasingly complex flows, and HPC helps reduce turn-around times. With EFA, design engineers can now scale out their simulation jobs to experiment with more tuneable parameters, leading to faster, more accurate results.
Find out more about EFA at
https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/
How AWS' infrastructure takes your CFD to the next level
The flexibility of the AWS infrastructure means that whatever your CFD workload, from complex fluid flows involving turbulence to acoustics and electromagnetics, there’s an Amazon EC2 instance to suit. Intel Xeon processor-based instances such as C5n with Elastic Fabric Adaptor (EFA) ensure that up to 100 Gbps of bandwidth is made available for complex simulations. Flexible configuration and virtually unlimited scalability enable you to grow and shrink your infrastructure as your CFD workloads demand.
Enhancing CFD with Elastic Fabric Adapter
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface that relies on a custom-built OS-bypass technique to speed up communication between compute instances. It enables customers to scale their applications to tens of thousands of CPU cores. Advances in CFD algorithms enable engineers to simulate increasingly complex flows, and HPC helps reduce turn-around times. With EFA, design engineers can now scale out their simulation jobs to experiment with more tuneable parameters, leading to faster, more accurate results.
Find out more about EFA at
https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/
Additional resources
Learn about the best practices for running computational fluid dynamics workloads on AWS. Use this document to learn more about AWS services and the related quick start tools that simplify getting started with running CFD simulations on AWS.
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