1. Presented by
Michael Davies
CFMS-ASRC Business Manager
CFMS-ASRC
Bristol, September 2011

2. advanced simulation research centre

3. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION
What is CFMS?
“CFMS is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, committed to
accelerating the delivery of more intuitive and powerful design
processes.”

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CFMS Limited
• A not for profit company, limited by guarantee has been established to manage delivery of
the CFMS Vision via the CFMS Framework*
• The company is known as CFMS Ltd
• Member Companies are:
• Airbus
• BAE Systems
• Frazer-Nash Consultancy
• MBDA UK
• Rolls-Royce
• Williams F1
• Activities carried out by CFMS Ltd include:
• Technology road-mapping
• Project scoping and facilitation
• Project management support
• Facilities provision
• All services are available to organisations beyond the Member companies of CFMS Ltd
The CFMS Framework is a co-ordinated programme of research and technology deployment projects, the
scope of which has been defined to achieve the CFMS Vision
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5. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION
Advanced Simulation Research Centre
 Created to challenge our perceptions of a
“traditional working environment”
• On-site HPC cluster
• IT Lab (flexible infrastructure)
• Visualisation suite
• Integration room
• Collaborative working areas
• Hot-desking and touchdown-desking
• Meeting rooms & conference facilities
• Break-out areas
“An inspiring and stimulating environment to encourage collaboration and
innovation, alongside the cutting-edge facilities required to support the
development and demonstration of the latest technologies”

6. TRANSFORMING SIMULATION
Associates Scheme
 Primary method of CFMS engagement
 Brings together end users, technology developers
and researchers
 Unique programme of activities to improve
awareness and identify longer-term developments
• Best practice exchange
• Road-mapping
• Demonstrations
• Networking
• Forums
• Technical notes/white papers
• Newsletters
“Introduce organisations to technologies and methodologies which will make their
design processes quicker, cheaper and more effective”

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8. Facility elements
Capability Lab
a facility to support collaborative research & development
HPC – High Performance Computer
IT laboratory
a facility to support R&D in emerging IT architectures

9.  An open plan office space, with flexible partitioning
 Focus on supporting CFMS programmes and methods
developments
 Front office:
 Desktop clients with docking stations for ‘approved’ laptops
 Wireless internet access,
 Wired access to HPC and IT Lab
 Visualisation/Integration/Conferencing/Meeting Rooms
 Back office servers:
 18 Xeon-based severs (development, code, email,…etc)
 3.6TB storage
 Software stacks
Capability Lab

10. HPC
 2880 core clusters – latest Nehalem (six-core) chipset
- Fast file server : 60TB usable
- QDR IB interconnect, 40Gbps bandwidth
- IBM iDataPlex, with water-cooled rear doors
 1440 cores Rolls-Royce, 720 cores Airbus, 720 cores third-party
 Head/login nodes
 2 x PostProcessing-nodes
 2 X Visualisation nodes, with Nvidia Quadroplex 2200S4 GPUs
 OS: RHE v5.4
 Scheduler: SunGridEngine

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Facility floor plan
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Ground Floor Layout
ITLab HPC
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v
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v Venus
Integration
Room Mars
Visualisation
Zone
Game Zone
Break-out
Zone
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Venus
Integration
Room
Mars
Visualisation
Zone
Max capacity = 25 people (8 people
in baseline layout)
Max capacity = 25 people (12 people
in baseline layout)

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Facility floor plan
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First Floor Layout
CFMS
ASRC
ASRC
ASRC
ASRC
Saturn Room
Jupiter Room
Mercury
Room
Neptune
Room
Transit Zone
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6
4 3
1 2
Neptune
Room
Mercury
Room
Saturn RoomJupiter Room Transit Zone
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Max capacity = 40 people in seminar room
layout (24 people in training room layout)
Max capacity = 25 people in seminar room
layout (16 people in training room layout)
Max capacity = 20 people in seminar room
layout (6people with baseline layout)
Max capacity = 14 people in seminar
room layout (4people +2 desks with
baseline layout)
Capacity = 6 people with
baseline layout
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Organisation
Member Organisations
RR, Airbus, Williams F1, Fraser Nash, MBDA, BAE
CFMS Board
B Barzegar, I Martindale, P Best, N Buckland, A Burns, G Gapper, B Davis
ASRC Board
Martin Aston
Frank McQuade
Carolyn Webb
Andy Williams
Implementation
Manager
Mike Davies
Business Manager
Zoe Thorne
Administrator
Neil Whyld Paul Edwards
Outreach Manager
Technical controller
Operations/Facilities
Nathan Harper
IBM Support

14. Thank you for your attention