HPC Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
V Koichiro, Suzuki V Nobuhiro, Uchida, Hideaki Kuraishi, Vincent Wagner · Fujitsu Scientific and Technical Journal · 2008
The most important requirement of a high performance computing (HPC) system, commonly known as a supercomputer, has traditionally been computational performance. Users have had to be familiar with advanced operations in order to make efficient use of high-priced and high-performance hardware. In recent years, however, there has been a shift toward low-cost HPC systems based on a general-purpose architecture such as personal computer clusters. As a result, the use of HPC systems is now spreading among users specializing in computational science research to the design and development departments in the manufacturing industry that promote virtual prototyping (simulation) to reduce development costs. These trends have generated a need for solutions that enable users to operate and manage HPC systems easily and perform design and development work efficiently. This paper explains HPC Portal, a Web-based tool for using HPC systems, System Administrator Portal, an operation and management tool, and SynfiniWay, a workflow tool. It also gives examples of solutions using these tools.