mid-level server for efficient parallelisation code development

蒙特利尔理工大学基于仿真的工程科学（SBES）和计算流体动力学（CFD）的研究和培训与机械和航空航天行业的主要参与者有着悠久的密切合作历史。申请人被公认为世界级的专家，在CFD领域拥有非常强的出版记录。他们中的一些人已经成为加拿大CFD发展的先驱，今天，他们构成了加拿大最大的CFD集团之一。在2016年4月，申请人被授予NSERC-创建补助金，以开发SBES的培训计划，以增加具有SBES计算工程方法，技术和实践的深入了解的硕士和博士学位的数量。这样一个计划的成功取决于本地访问与加拿大计算大规模并行分布式平台兼容的中级计算平台。这是需要开发，验证和验证新的模拟工具，同时减轻输入数据准备的大规模模拟的任务。申请人进行研究，以分析，表征和改善机械产品和系统的性能，在海军，海上，航空，机械，生物医学和水电部门。这些不同的系统有一个共同的迫切需要准确和可靠的模拟的流动行为，以支持系统性能的改善。与工业伙伴的合作沿着专门知识和技术的转让，确保了申请人研究的相关性。由此产生的工业实力SBES环境将确保我们的工业合作伙伴的长期支持。需要一个中间计算平台来确保它们在CC计算环境中的可移植性。本地中间服务器机器将用于良好的并行化实践。这是必需的，因为这些开发无法在高性能服务器上完成。我们的选择是根据Etienne教授、Pelletier教授、Garon教授和Batailly教授的战略方向量身定制的，他们的工作是针对复杂流动的整体（全耦合）有限元方法以及非光滑机械系统的设计和优化。具有大量RAM和运行Linux操作系统的处理器的计算机为继续开发、改进和推广高阶单片方法提供了最佳环境。

Research and training in Simulation Based Engineering Sciences (SBES) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at Polytechnique Montréal have a long history of close collaboration with key actors in the mechanical and aerospace industry. The applicants are recognized as world class experts with very strong publication records in CFD. Some of them have been pioneers of CFD development in Canada and today, they constitute one of the largest CFD group in Canada. In April 2016, the applicants were awarded an NSERC-CREATE grant to develop a training program in SBES to increase the number of MSc and PhD with a deep knowledge of computational engineering methods, techniques and practices in SBES. Success of such a program hinges on local access to mid-level computing platforms compatible with Computing Canada massively parallel distributed platforms. This is required for development, verification and validation of new simulation tools while simultaneously easing the tasks of input data preparation for large scale simulations. The applicants do research to analyze characterize and improve the performance of mechanical products and systems in the naval, offshore, aeronautical, mechanical, bio-medical, and hydro-electric sectors. These diverse systems have in common an acute need for accurate and reliable simulations of the flow behavior to support improvement of system performance. Collaboration with industrial partners along with transfer of know-how and technology ensure the relevance of the applicants’ research. The resulting industrial strength SBES environment will ensure long term support from our industrial partners. An intermediate computational platform is required to ensure their portability to CC computing environment. A local mid-server machine will serve for good practice parallelisation. This is required since these developments cannot be done on high-performance servers. Our choice is tailored to the strategic orientations chosen by Pr. Etienne, Pelletier, Garon and Batailly for their work on monolithic (fully-coupled) FE methods for complex flows and the design and optimization of non-smooth mechanical systems. Computers with a large amount of RAM and processors which runs the Linux operating system offer the best environment to continue developing, improving and promoting high order monolithic approaches.