The document discusses the advantages of using cloud computing for Abaqus simulations, highlighting significant performance enhancements achieved with the UberCloud-Azure environment, which outperformed traditional on-premise clusters. Various case studies illustrate improvements in speed, cost-efficiency, and flexibility, particularly in complex simulations like living heart and brain modeling. Overall, the transition to cloud infrastructure facilitates faster time-to-market and allows engineers to leverage unlimited hardware resources for their analysis needs.

1. Abaqus and Cloud Computing

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3. Simulations can be Slow and Painful!
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4. The World of HPC Has Changed
Engineering Expertise
is Expensive
Cheap Compute Power Technology Moving Fast
On-premise Cluster
Azure-UberCloud
53%
faster
The UberCloud-Azure Environment
performed 53% faster than a 2 year
old on-premise cluster with identical
core counts
Comparison of wall clock solution (solver) time as reported by CFX benchmark
As measured by a 20%
utilization of 256 core
inhouse system. Study
based on IDC data.
72.7%
cheaper

5. Abaqus HPC Performance
Performance Gains on Abaqus Explicit Increasing # of Cores
Speed up simulation more than 4x
28.6% decrease in average token cost
per core
Average Token Cost
per Core = 1.5
Average Token Cost
per Core = 0.43
Speed Up Data Source: https://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-and-software/simulia-system-information/abaqus-2016/performance-data/
Abaqus Explicit Benchmark Car Crash Problem e1.inp
274K elements, 62K increments
Abaqus version 6.14-1
HP ProLiant DL170h G6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
Intel Xeon L5520, 2.27 GHz

6. Abaqus HPC Performance
Performance Study by NVIDIA
Image Source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-abaqus-accelerations.htm
Performance Gains on Abaqus Standard with powerful GPUs

7. UberCloud Experience

8. UberCloud Experience

9. UberCloud Experience

10. FASTER TIME TO MARKET
Flexibility lets you use the appropriate hardware based on the
urgency of the need
GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY
Use the resources anywhere. Make better use of your licenses
UNLOCK NEW CAPABILITIES
Unlimited hardware means you can run multiple analyses in parallel, do Design
Optimizations, use new codes
There are huge benefits for engineers
CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ANALYSIS
Access hundreds of different hardware configurations that are
renewed constantly lets you run the analysis the way you want

11. Case Studies and Resources
visit:
https://www.theubercloud.com/case-studies

12. Stanford University and UberCloud Achieve Breakthrough in Living Heart Simulations
The Living Heart
Project
Evolution of the electrical activity for the baseline case (no drug) and after the
application of Quinidine. The electrical propagation turns chaotic after the
drug is applied, showing the high risk of Quinidine to produce arrhythmias.
Speed up one simulation by a factor of 27.
40 hours on 160 CPU cores on Advania’s HPE system with Intel
Broadwell E5-2683v4 nodes and Intel OmniPath interconnect.
7 million elements and 250,000,000 internal variables that are updated
and stored within each step of the simulation.
Abaqus Case Study

13. Heavy Duty Structural Analysis
More than 1.5M elements, 2M DOF.
11.5hours on a 32 core linux cluster
Full access for remote visualization of the simulation results throughout
the analysis.
Cast in Place Mechanical Anchor Concrete Anchorage Pull Out Capacity Analysis
Abaqus Case Study

14. Dassault, NIMHANS and UberCloud Foster Innovative Brain Simulation with HPC
Non-Invasive Neuro-Stimulation of
the Brain to Treat Schizophrenia
Localization of the peak Electrical Potential Gradient value in Abaqus for
different combinations of electrodes.
Speed up single simulation by a factor of 2.
Brain model with 1.8 million elements.
28 minutes on 24 cores on Advania HPC Cluster.
Full access for interactive and batch work, and for remote visualization of
the simulation results throughout the analysis.
Abaqus Case Study

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