CFMS is a not-for-profit organization committed to accelerating simulation design processes. It has established the CFMS Limited company and Advanced Simulation Research Centre facility to achieve its vision. The facility provides high-performance computing, visualization capabilities, and collaborative work spaces to support research and technology projects. CFMS engages organizations through its Associates Scheme, which aims to improve awareness of new technologies and methods through demonstrations, networking, and other activities.

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 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
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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

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