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FieldView, the popular CFD simulation and visualization tool, has a new version out with some huge improvements in multi-core and parallel processing.

“We are seeing a huge productivity speedup from using FieldView Parallel 12.2,” Robinson continued. “Testing a typical 60M element file, going from our traditional single grid file to multi-grid and using 16 processors, we’ve cut the file read time from 5 minutes, 10 seconds to just 40 seconds – nearly eight times faster. Reading in large data can be incredibly time-consuming, and our large files sometimes exceed 200M elements. FieldView Parallel provides the solution at the very time we`re recognizing this growing problem.”

They give some anecdotal numbers of a 2x speedup on 4 cores, and a 5x speedup on 8 cores, making it not entirely linear but still a pretty impressive performance boost.

via Intelligent Light ReleasesFieldView 12.2 Exploiting Multi-Core Computing For Speed and Performance in CFD Post-Processing | Reuters.

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Red Bull Technology’s Formula 1 car just brought home a 1-2 finish at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai in April, and another 1-2 finish at Silverstone in June.  How did they do it?  Well, FieldView from Intelligent Light gave them insight into the CFD models used to simulate their cars, helping them edge out the competition.

Learning from high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and rapidly turning the results into design decisions is the rule at Red Bull Technology. With several thousand cores of high performance computing (HPC) capacity churning out simulation results 24 hours a day, converting the solution data into key metrics, launching comparative studies, and understanding important flow phenomena requires robust, efficient tools. Red Bull Technology relies on FieldView(TM) CFD post-processing software from Intelligent Light to turn simulation data into actionable information in this highly productive CFD workflow.

via Red Bull Formula 1 Team Races to 1-2 Finishes at Chinese and British Grands Prix using FieldView(TM) CFD Post-Processing as Critical Engineering Tool – MarketWatch.

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