Presented by Michael Davies CFMS-ASRC Business Manager

CFMS-ASRC

Bristol, September 2011

advanced simulation research centre

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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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”

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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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

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

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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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

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Saturn Room

Jupiter Room

Mercury Room

Neptune Room

Transit Zone

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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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