Streamlining Fire Safety Engineering: How to Import cloudHPC Results into Namirial CPI WIN FSE
For Fire Safety Engineers, the transition from complex fluid dynamics simulations to regulatory compliance documentation is often the most time-consuming phase of a project. Performing FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) analyses requires immense computational power, but the ultimate goal is always the same: integrating those sophisticated results into a professional report that meets rigorous safety standards.
For those using Namirial CPI WIN FSE, the ability to seamlessly import simulation data is a game-changer for workflow efficiency. However, the quality of that workflow begins long before you open your modeling software. It starts with where and how you run your simulations.
While many turn to generic cloud computing platforms to handle the heavy lifting of FDS, there is a distinct advantage to using a specialized environment like cloudHPC. Unlike standard providers that offer a “one-size-fits-all” approach to virtual machines, cloudHPC is engineered specifically for CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) workflows. By utilizing a platform that understands the architecture of FDS, engineers benefit from pre-configured environments that eliminate the headache of manual setup, optimized CPU performance tailored for parallel processing, and a transparent cost structure that prevents the “billing surprises” common with larger, unspecialized cloud giants.
In short, cloudHPC doesn’t just provide raw power; it provides a streamlined path from a raw input file to a completed analysis. In this post, we will look at the final piece of that puzzle: the step-by-step procedure for importing your processed FDS results from cloudHPC directly into Namirial CPI WIN FSE to finalize your fire safety design.
Procedure details
The manual procedure is made of 4 main steps. Before them, you must make sure your FDS simulation has been completed by the system and that the results are available using the compressed archive named FDS.tar.gz . If both these requirements are matched you can:
- Open file explorer and navigate to your Namirial project file – this is a file with project_name.NamirialMEP, where project_name is the name you have previously assigned to this project
- On the same level of the project file you will find a folder named project_name – where project_name is the name you have previously assigned to this project
- Inside the project_name folder you’ll find a subfolder named Fds
- Extract the whole content of your FDS.tar.gz file on the subfolder Fds we have just found
If the above steps are completed correctly, you’ll be able to open Namirial CPI WIN FSE and see the results of your simulations.
CloudHPC is a HPC provider to run engineering simulations on the cloud. CloudHPC provides from 1 to 224 vCPUs for each process in several configuration of HPC infrastructure - both multi-thread and multi-core. Current software ranges includes several CAE, CFD, FEA, FEM software among which OpenFOAM, FDS, Blender and several others.
New users benefit of a FREE trial of 300 vCPU/Hours to be used on the platform in order to test the platform, all each features and verify if it is suitable for their needs
