Faster Metal Forming Solution with Latest Intel Hardware & Software Technology

Reducing part development time & cost and increasing quality & productivity have always been important goals in the metal forming industry. Quick response to frequent mould change is challenging metal forming simulation engineers in the modern high efficiency production environment. To achieve these goals, a requirement for nearly instant numerical simulation of metal forming processes is emerging. Unfortunately, poor scalability and slow I/O due to adaptive remeshing as well as long waiting times in corporate HPC job queues are all bottlenecks to instant numerical simulation of metal forming processes. Three optimized ®workstation solutions using new Intel hardware and software technology are proposed. The proposed solution addresses these issues through code optimization using the latest ® ® ® 1Intel compiler technology, Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family processor, the 2nd ®generation Intel Solid State Device (SSD) technology, and the new Advanced Vector Extension 3(AVX) instruction set. The proposed solution allows metal forming simulations to be run on a local workstation with promising turnaround times. The performance of optimal configurations is discussed for real customer workloads in this paper.