The NAFEMS Eastern European 2020 Virtual Conference took place on the 23rd and 24th of September 2020. The event gave participants access to high level presentations in the field of structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, electromagnetics and discrete element methods.
Resource AbstractFLSmidth, a Danish manufacturer with 12,000 employees and offices in 60 countries, is providing market-leading factories, machinery, services and know-how to the global cement and mineral industries. They are implementing a digital transformation strategy which is currently accelerating in all industries. Corporations are looking to increase agility and innovation by streamlining their processes and shifting company assets to services that can also be outsourced.
As part of this strategy, FLSmidth’s R&D team is currently enhancing their in-house engineering computing resources by adding on-demand compute clusters in the Microsoft Azure cloud and moving their customized CAE workloads, including ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS Mechanical, and Rocky DEM onto a cloud platform. This results in a hybrid, dynamic and fully automated self-service engineering simulation environment, enabled by UberCloud’s unique high-performance computing (HPC) software container environment.
In this presentation, we explain current and future simulation infrastructure at FLSmidth, list the reasons for this sea change and describe the transformation process, benefits and challenges encountered along the way. Learn how UberCloud’s CAE software container technology dramatically facilitated the smooth transition of CAE workloads to a hybrid, multi-cloud engineering simulation infrastructure.
