福特汽车公司：构建高效的 HPC 基础设施
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
- 传感器 - 温度传感器
适用行业
- 汽车
- 水泥
适用功能
- 产品研发
- 质量保证
用例
- 施工管理
- 基础设施检查
服务
- 硬件设计与工程服务
- 测试与认证
关于客户
福特汽车公司是一家领先的汽车制造商，生产比以往更安全、更安静、更舒适的轿车、卡车、货车和 SUV。对福特质量做出贡献的许多无形资产都来自高性能计算 (HPC) 技术的创新使用。在位于密歇根州迪尔伯恩的福特数值密集计算部门 (NIC)，工程师们使用 NASTRAN 和 LS-DYNA 等代码运行模拟，以预测分析气缸冷却、风噪声、振动、乘坐质量、耐撞性、耐用性以及其他有助于改善性能的特性。行业领先的汽车设计。
挑战
多年来，福特的数值密集计算部门 (NIC) 已经构建了一个强大的异构高性能计算 (HPC) 环境，将容量和功能结合起来。该环境包括基于 Xeon、Itanium 和 Alpha 处理器的 Beowulf 集群、SGI Origin 和 Altix 服务器、IBMP650 容量以及大型 SMP Cray 系统。虽然这种基础设施使 NIC 能够及时处理计算密集型作业，但它也导致了平台和应用程序基础设施的复杂化。此外，NIC 在求解器方面面临复杂性，运行许多应用程序版本，但没有一个版本可以在所有架构上运行。我们面临的挑战是找到一种解决方案，能够有效管理这种复杂的基础设施，并为用户提供简单的工具。
解决方案
NIC采用PBS Professional来管理其复杂的具有工作属性的硬件和软件。以前的工作负载管理器已达到其可扩展性限制，无法有效地处理 NIC 不断增加的处理器数量。在评估商用工作负载管理软件后，NIC 选择了 PBS Professional，因为它的成本、灵活性和源代码的可用性。 PBS Professional 源代码的可用性允许 NIC 运行 PBS Professional 服务器基础设施并开发在其之上运行的自定义调度包。 PBS Professional 基础设施使 NIC 可以自由地进入处理器性能不断提高、成本不断下降的技术市场。它使 NIC 能够引入最新的技术，以确保福特获得最大的硬件价值，并且 PBS Professional 使 NIC 能够将这些技术插入并作为单一资源的一部分呈现给用户。
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