Enhancing Data Centers: Ansys, Supermicro, and NVIDIA Collaborate on Turnkey Solutions

Ansys is working with Supermicro and NVIDIA to build turnkey hardware to support Ansys’ multiphysics simulation solutions. Ansys customers will be able to run larger and more complex models up to 1,600 times faster. The Supermicro and NVIDIA technology reduces time-to-market for Ansys solutions.

Turnkey hardware refers to pre-configured hardware solutions, with minimal setup needs, which are ready to be used upon delivery (hence the name ‘turnkey’, the end-user only needs to ‘turn the key’ before starting to use the system).

Turnkey hardware solutions are vital for data centres as they provide ready-to-use, reliable and efficient systems to simplify the deployment of data centre infrastructure. 

As data centre demands increase, turnkey units are added with little disruption, ensuring that the infrastructure can expand at ease with business needs.

Through the use of turnkey solutions, data centres can focus their attention on the core business activities, instead of spending time and resources on data centre maintenance.

Transforming data centres and multiphysics simulations with NVIDIA’s Turnkey hardware solutions

NVIDIA is a computer hardware manufacturer, which aims to explore edge solutions for businesses, with its offerings transforming possibility into real-world results. In regards to data centres, NVIDIA assists data centres in many ways, from leveraging GPU technology, to designing software platforms and supporting ecosystem partnerships. 

Getting the most out of multiphysics simulation requires the integration of different types of physics solvers with a variety of hardware choices, each with its own unique performance benefits. 

Yet configuring the correct hardware for multiphysics simulation is a complicated task which can significantly impact performance, cost and productivity. 

Customised Turnkey hardware with central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), interconnects and cooling modules, will let engineers run predictively accurate simulations.

Collaborative testing between Ansys and Supermicro discovered replicating the performance of Ansys Fluent™ and Ansys Rocky™ running on one NVIDIA GPU would require 1,500 and 480 CPU cores. 

Ansys Perceive EM™ running on one NVIDIA GPU achieves the same performance as 1,000,000+ CPU cores. The testing process has revealed:

• Ansys optiSLang AI+™: 1,600x speed-up
• Ansys Fluent™: 24x speed-up
• Ansys Mechanical™: 6x speed-up 
• Ansys HFSS™: 11x speed-up  
• Ansys Perceive EM™: 53x speed-up 
• Ansys Rocky™: 17x speed-up 
• Ansys LS-DYNA™: 4x speed-up.

The speed-ups were achieved through the replacement of CPU cores and GPUs with NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA hardware used in testing included NVIDIA H100 GPUs, NVIDIA L40S GPUs, and the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.