1. HPC at GE
Dave Topp
April 14, 2010

3. High Fidelity Analysis
Further advances needed in key disciplines:
Turbomachinery Aero Design
Heat Transfer
Aeromechanics
Combustion
Stress & Life
Acoustics
Material Modeling
Configuration Management capability needed to manage increasing volume of analysis data
Efficient High Performance Computing capacity critical

4. HPC Growth at GE
1997
2000
2010
Started with RISC desktops and some SMP
Added similar installation at another site
Proliferation of sites and numbers of racks
Dominance of Linux clusters
Dramatic growth of HPC power
Vision is GE HPC Grid