White Papers

4 Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing—Siemens’ Simcenter STAR-CCM+™ Performance | January 31, 2018
1 Introduction
This technical white paper describes the performance of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ on the Dell EMC Ready
Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing, which was designed and configured specifically for Digital
Manufacturing workloads, where Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications are critical for virtual
product development. The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing uses a flexible building
block approach, where individual building blocks can be combined to build HPC systems which are ideal for
customer specific work-loads and use cases. The individual building blocks are configured to provide good
performance for specific application types and workloads common to this industry.
The architecture of the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing and a description of the
building blocks are presented in Section 2. Section 3 describes the system configuration, software and
application versions, and the benchmark test cases that were used to measure and analyze the performance
of the Dell EMC HPC Ready Bundle for HPC Digital Manufacturing. Section 4 quantifies the capabilities of the
system and presents benchmark performance for Simcenter STAR-CCM+.