The Performance of 10-Million Element Car Model by MPP Version of LS-DYNA® on Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER

In automotive industries, car crash analysis by finite element methods is a very important tool for reducing the development time and cost. In order to get the accurate results, in addition to the improvement of the finite element technology, such as full-integrated shell elements, smaller size of finite element mesh is used, because finer meshes represent the car geometry more accurately, and reduce the noise of contact force. The batch mesh generator, which is enhanced recently, also needs fine mesh. The use of these fine mesh model increases the computational time. In this paper, we examine the performance of the fine mesh model. We developed a 10-million elements car model, which is 10 time larger than the current production car model. The performance of large number of CPU by Massively parallel processing( MPP ) version of LS-DYNA, is measured on Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER.