OpenRadioss cloud solver
openRadioss is a leading explicit finite element solver, widely recognized in the automotive industry and increasingly adopted across diverse sectors for its robust capabilities in simulating crashworthiness, safety, drop tests, and impact scenarios. It’s a powerful tool, but running complex simulations can be demanding on your local hardware. CloudHPC empowers you to unlock the full potential of openRadioss by providing on-demand access to high-performance cloud computing resources, specifically optimized for demanding simulations. Overcome the limitations of local infrastructure and dramatically reduce simulation times, leading to faster iteration cycles, enhanced design optimization, and more comprehensive analysis. This means you can leverage the power of openRadioss more effectively than ever before.
Why Run openRadioss on CloudHPC?
CloudHPC offers a compelling alternative to traditional, on-premise openRadioss workflows, delivering significant advantages:
- Scale Beyond Local Limitations: Say goodbye to hardware bottlenecks. CloudHPC provides access to a diverse range of virtual machines (VMs) with varying CPU, memory, and storage configurations, allowing you to execute significantly larger and more intricate openRadioss models than ever before possible on your local workstation. Finally, tackle simulations that were previously deemed impossible due to resource constraints.
- Reduce Simulation Time Dramatically: Harness the power of multi-core processors, high-frequency CPUs, and high-performance storage (including NVMe SSDs) to dramatically reduce simulation run times. Accelerate your design cycle and obtain results faster, enabling quicker decision-making and a faster time to market for your products. Running openRadioss on the cloud means you can run more simulations, more often.
- Optimize Your Designs More Effectively: With significantly faster turnaround times, you can explore a broader spectrum of design options and perform more comprehensive sensitivity analyses. Delve deeper into your simulations, uncover optimal solutions, and substantially improve the performance and reliability of your products. CloudHPC allows you to truly maximize the potential of openRadioss’s optimization capabilities.
- Cost-Effective Solution: Only pay for the computing resources you consume. CloudHPC eliminates the need for expensive hardware investments, ongoing maintenance costs, and software licensing complexities, offering a truly cost-effective solution for running your openRadioss simulations. This pay-as-you-go model allows you to accurately budget your simulation costs.
- Seamless Workflow: Our user-friendly platform simplifies the process of running openRadioss in the cloud. You can leverage your existing expertise and workflows with minimal disruption.
openRadioss Functionalities Supported:
CloudHPC is designed to support a comprehensive range of openRadioss functionalities, ensuring a smooth transition to cloud-based simulations:
✅ Optimization Capabilities: Employ openRadioss’s built-in optimization tools to improve the performance of your designs automatically. Optimize for weight reduction, strength improvement, or other performance criteria.
✅ Crashworthiness Analysis: Simulate vehicle crashes and rigorously assess occupant safety performance under a wide variety of impact scenarios, helping you design safer vehicles and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
✅ Drop Test Simulations: Evaluate the robustness and durability of electronic devices, packaging, and other products when subjected to drop impacts. Identify potential weaknesses and optimize your designs for improved reliability.
✅ Impact Analysis: Analyze the effects of impacts on structures, components, and materials across various industries, from aerospace to consumer goods. Predict damage, deformation, and failure modes under different impact conditions.
✅ Material Modeling: Leverage advanced material models, including nonlinear, viscoelastic, and damage models, to accurately represent the behavior of different materials under dynamic loading conditions. This ensures the fidelity of your simulation results.
✅ Explicit Time Integration: Utilize openRadioss’s robust and efficient explicit time integration scheme for handling highly nonlinear and transient events, such as impacts, explosions, and rapid deformations.
✅ Contact Modeling: Simulate complex contact interactions between multiple parts in your model, including friction, wear, and separation. Accurately capture the effects of contact on the overall simulation results.
✅ ALE and SPH Techniques: Tackle large deformation problems, such as fluid-structure interaction or explosive events, using Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) and Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods. These advanced techniques allow you to simulate highly distorted geometries.
Your Workflow with CloudHPC
Running your openRadioss analysis on CloudHPC is a straightforward and intuitive process:
- Prepare Your Input Files Locally: Create and pre-process your openRadioss input files (.rad) using your preferred pre-processor on your local machine. This allows you to maintain your existing workflow and leverage your existing software investments (e.g., HyperMesh, ANSA). Ensure your input files are complete, validated, and optimized for efficient simulation.
- Upload to CloudHPC: Easily upload your input files (including all necessary include files, material databases, and custom scripts) to the CloudHPC platform via our secure and intuitive web interface or using command-line tools. We support various upload methods to accommodate different file sizes and transfer speeds.
- Configure Your Virtual Machine: Choose a pre-configured virtual machine (VM) with specifications tailored to the needs of your openRadioss analysis. Select the desired number of CPU cores, amount of memory (RAM), type of storage (SSD or NVMe), and operating system. You can also customize the machine further by installing additional software or libraries as needed. CloudHPC’s support team is available to help you choose the optimal VM configuration for your specific simulation.
- Run Your Analysis: Submit your openRadioss job to the cloud. CloudHPC automatically launches openRadioss on your chosen virtual machine and manages the execution of your simulation. You can monitor the progress of your simulation in real-time through our comprehensive web interface, including CPU utilization, memory consumption, and simulation output.
- Download Results: Once the simulation is complete, easily download your results files (.h3d, .out, .csv, etc.) to your local machine for post-processing and analysis. Use your preferred post-processing tools (e.g., HyperView, Animator) to visualize and interpret the results.
With CloudHPC, you can unlock the full potential of openRadioss and accelerate your product development process. Contact us today to learn more and request a free trial.
