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January 2000 Flomerics has launched a new ultra-fast version of its FLOVENT airflow modeling software for HVAC Design Engineers, developed specifically to take advantage of the enhanced computation speeds offered by today’s multi-processor PCs. Operating on a 2-processor computer system, the new FLOVENT solver can perform a typical simulation up to 1.65 times faster than that achievable on a single processor platform. Operating on a four-processor system, it can solve simulations up to 2.5 times faster. This latest performance improvement follows closely behind the introduction earlier this year of Flomerics’ "conjugate residual solver", which itself solves equations 13 times faster than its predecessor. With the introduction of new, lower-cost, desktop PCs featuring multiple processors, such computational power is now accessible to most engineers for use with CPU-intensive packages such as FLOVENT. This latest Flovent solver is based on the "OpenMP" Application Program Interface (API), which has been jointly defined by a group of major computer hardware and software vendors. OpenMP is a portable, scalable interface which enables programmers to develop parallel applications for platforms ranging from the desktop to the supercomputer, using memory-sharing and multi-threading techniques (www.openmp.org). Mike Reynell, Marketing Director at Flomerics said, "This new parallel solver is just the first step in our overall strategy to maximize our customers’ productivity by constantly reducing the time required to Perform air flow modeling. The next step is to improve and extend our parallelization techniques to enable distributed processing via a network. This means that if Fred is on holiday, and his machine is networked to mine, my FLOVENT solver will automatically make use of Fred’s spare processing power to execute the job as fast as possible. In fact, I will be able to run bits of my project on machines all over the network. Right now, we are developing a new module called "Command Centre" - the first of its kind in the industry - which controls and co-ordinates distributed processing of multiple FLOVENT projects simultaneously across a large heterogeneous network." |
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