Customer
Our end customer is a leading European supplier of bar steel and crude steel. The supplier‘s materials and products form the basis for numerous industries, including the automotive sector. The qualitative requirements for the starting material and for the end pro-ducts manufactured from it are correspondingly high. To optimize the development and production of steel and steel products, our customer uses simulation software and operates data mining.
Project Date: 2022Project Volume: 400.000€
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Project Description
The complexity in steelmaking and in steel production as a whole is high. Manufacturing and production must be permanently monitored, controlled and intelligently improved so that products can be produced with the properties that precisely meet customer requirements.
To optimize the development and production of steel and steel products, our customer uses simulation software that can accurately predict the properties of steel bars associated with various rolling processes. The accuracy and reproducibility of the predicted product properties are ensured by a comprehensive data mining process.
To increase computing power and simultaneously reduce power consumption, the existing Intel Xeon landscape was to be replaced by a system with efficient power density and performance at low power consumption.
Project Realization
The delivered MUSTANG® systems clusters consist of two specialized systems: an HPC cluster for compute-intensive simulations and a separate virtualization cluster for classic VM workloads. The clusters, in their first expansion stage, include various virtual nodes, all flash storage nodes (GlusterFS/Replica 3), and a series of DP 4 nodes-in-2U twin cluster/worker nodes. These systems are equipped with highly efficient AMD EPYC 7003 series/Milan and a particularly powerful, redundantly executed 25GbE/100GbE Ethernet network.
What is ... AMD Epic 7003?
With the Epyc 7003 („Milan“) series, our partner AMD introduced its new server CPUs on March 15, 2021. The successor of Epyc 7002 („Rome“). With up to 64 cores, the series delivers an outstanding performance and could beat a Xeon Gold in a direct comparison.
The clusters were handed over turnkey installed including integration of existing server hardware with adapted network interfaces as well as RockyLinux-OS, Proxmox-HA, various cluster management and customer-based simulation software (including star-ccm+, Abaqus, Thercast) and is fully supported over the entire warranty period in the area of hardware and software function.
With the new MUSTANG® systems HPC/virtualization clusters, the customer generates a significant increase in performance with extremely high time savings compared to the old HPC environment and at the same time significantly lower power consumption costs.
