mid-level server for efficient parallelisation code development

蒙特拉尔理工学院在基于模拟的工程科学(SBES)和计算流体动力学(CFD)方面的研究和培训与机械和航空航天行业的关键参与者有着长期的密切合作。申请者被公认为世界级专家，在CFD方面有非常好的发表记录。他们中的一些人曾是加拿大CFD发展的先驱，今天，他们组成了加拿大最大的CFD团队之一。2016年4月，申请者获得了NSERC-CREATE赠款，用于在SBES开发一个培训计划，以增加对SBES计算工程方法、技术和实践的深入了解的硕士和博士人数。这种计划的成功取决于本地能否获得与加拿大计算公司大规模并行分布式平台兼容的中级计算平台。这是开发、验证和确认新的模拟工具所必需的，同时也减轻了大规模模拟的输入数据准备任务。申请者进行研究，以分析、表征和改进海军、近海、航空、机械、生物医疗和水电部门的机械产品和系统的性能。这些不同的系统都迫切需要对流动行为进行准确和可靠的模拟，以支持系统性能的改进。与工业合作伙伴的合作以及技术诀窍和技术的转让确保了申请者研究的相关性。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可移植到CC计算环境。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，因为这些开发不能在高性能服务器上完成。我们的选择是根据公关选择的战略方向量身定做的。Etienne、Pelletier、Garon和Batailly，以表彰他们在复杂流动的整体(完全耦合)有限元方法以及非光滑机械系统的设计和优化方面所做的工作。拥有大量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.