Advances in hardware and software have enabled the end-user to simulate the complete RF-portion of the involved antenna system. Application Domain: The end user uses CAE for virtual prototyping and design optimization on sensors and antenna systems used in medical imaging devices.Our resource provider was Amazon Web Services. The HPC mentor was Chris Dagdigian a Principal Consultant employed by the BioTeam. The commercial software provider was represented by Dr.-Ing Felix Wolfheimer, Senior Application Engineer with CST AG. The Team: The end-user was a PhD physicist & engineer working for a medical device manufacturer as R&D Group Leader and innovation manager responsible for new sensor applications, new markets and fundamental research. In addition very large models can be handled by MPI parallelization using a domain decomposition approach.ĭuring the 3-month experiment we concentrated on the Distributed Computing system in which the simulations running in parallel on the different machines were also accelerated by multithreading and GPUs. This is done by the CST Distributed Computing System which takes care of all data transfer operations necessary to perform this parallel execution. in a parameter sweep or for the calculation of different frequency points) which are independent of each other these simulations can be sent to different machines to execute in parallel. If a simulation project needs multiple independent simulation runs ( e.g. On the node level ( single machine) multithreading and GPU computing ( for a subset of all available solvers) can be used to accelerate simulations still small enough to be handled by a single machine. The CST software suite offers multiple methods to accelerate simulation runs. Different solver technologies have been evaluated, including a time domain, frequency domain and eigenmode solver. The project task was the simulation of a multiresonant antenna system using the commercial CAE software CST Design Studio. The work involved the use of CST Microwave Studio on the Amazon Web Services cloud.Ī central landing page linking to all posts about this subject will always be at Experiment Summary Note: This is a modified version of the project report that our team wrote for the project organizers at the conclusion of the online HPC experiment.