Strengthening Product Design
with HPC
For the Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc., high-performance computing
(HPC) plays a key role in creating the structural products that help
people build stronger, safer buildings.As the company’s existing
HPC system...
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Strengthening Product Design
with HPC
For the Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc., high-performance computing
(HPC) plays a key role in creating the structural products that help
people build stronger, safer buildings.As the company’s existing
HPC system approached the end of its life, the R&D engineering
group sought a new processing platform that could handle more
detailed design simulation and deliver faster results without adding
IT complexity.Working with systems integrator Silicon Mechanics,
the IT group selected an Intel®
Cluster Ready system with Intel®
Xeon®
processors.The new cluster provides more than two times
the processing cores in half the data center footprint as the previous
system. Deployed in just two days, the new system enables product
developers to run complex models and get results two to three times
faster than before, while reducing the total cost of ownership.The
company is producing more products with reduced time to market.
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