Engineering Research has many years of experience in designing and implementing clusters and we also use them in our everyday work. Over the years we have refined our cluster environment to make it easy and efficient to use.

What are clusters?

High performance computing has become increasingly affordable in the recent years, through the use of clusters. A cluster is a set of computers, working with a problem in parallel in order to provide more computational power.

The computers that make up a cluster can be standard off-the-shelf PCs that are interconnected. This allows for high performance computing at a fraction of the cost of more traditional supercomputers.

Clusters and our products

The LS-DYNA Finite Element (FE) program comes in a version for parallel computing, called mpp/LS-DYNA. This allows users of LS-DYNA to significantly shorten simulation time using clusters.

We can help you

Setting up a cluster requires a lot of work from a systems administrator, especially the first time it is done. A cluster has many hardware and software components, and there are many caveats.

If you would like to harvest the benefits of an Engineering Research cluster without having to worry about things like hardware platforms, Linux distributions, installation of queueing systems etc, don't hesitate to contact us at info@erab.se. We provide a wide range of services in this area, ranging from full design and installation to on-site configuration of the Engineering Research cluster environment on existing hardware.