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Presented by Michael Davies CFMS-ASRC Business Manager
CFMS-ASRC
Bristol, September 2011
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advanced simulation research centre
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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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Rolls-Royce data-strictly private
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”
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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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October 2010
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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
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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
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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
ASRCASRC
ASRCASRC
Saturn Room
Jupiter Room
Mercury Room
Neptune Room
Transit Zone
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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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