Comments on: Video: Leveraging HPC and Optimizing the IT Environment for Engineering Simulation http://insidehpc.com/2013/02/07/video-leveraging-hpc-and-optimizing-the-it-environment-for-engineering-simulation/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: FJW http://insidehpc.com/2013/02/07/video-leveraging-hpc-and-optimizing-the-it-environment-for-engineering-simulation/#comment-383539 FJW Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:26:38 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=34909#comment-383539 This presentation misses the most glaring issue with commercial software providers, such as ANSYS, namely that their licensing models are extremely out of touch with the pace of Moore's law. Add into that mix the fact that they want to ala carte you to death for things like GPGPUs. Rich - here is a great little side project for you. Track commercial software cost against hardware costs. With hardware, costs scale, with software it sadly misses the boat. You can spend $1.5M for something in the 100TF range for an fully depreciated life over 36 months. Commercial CAE software to run on that cluster (CFD, Crash, FEA, Chemistry) can hit you with that same number yearly. This presentation misses the most glaring issue with commercial software providers, such as ANSYS, namely that their licensing models are extremely out of touch with the pace of Moore’s law. Add into that mix the fact that they want to ala carte you to death for things like GPGPUs.

Rich – here is a great little side project for you. Track commercial software cost against hardware costs. With hardware, costs scale, with software it sadly misses the boat. You can spend $1.5M for something in the 100TF range for an fully depreciated life over 36 months. Commercial CAE software to run on that cluster (CFD, Crash, FEA, Chemistry) can hit you with that same number yearly.

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