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 Framework: ARES

 High Performance Computing Auto-Scheduler & Control

Sim4Life offers high performance computing to enable the investigation of complex and realistic models. Multi-threaded execution for modeling, meshing, voxeling, and postprocessing enables parallel processing of heavy tasks without disturbing the workflow. A fully integrated centralized task manager efficiently manages all computationally intensive tasks on the local machine or in the cloud.

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The Asynchronous Remote Server (ARES) automatically distributes any computationally intensive task to local or remote HPC resources (GPU/ CPU, cluster, cloud).

Sim4Life features the fastest graphics processing unit (GPU)-enabled EM-FDTD and ultrasound (US) solvers (P-EM-FDTD & P-ACOUSTICS), supporting the latest hardware, e.g., NVIDIA Maxwell and Pascal architectures (K80,
Titan, P100, etc.).

The MPI parallelization-based FEM solvers' (P-EM-QS and P-FLOW) framework makes optimal use of multi-core processors, clusters, and supercomputers for extreme performance.

A unified interface supports cloud computing on various major providers.

 

 Key Features - Networking

  • Fully integrated centralized task manager
  • All functionality (remote computing, HPC) seamlessly integrated into Sim4Life & Python framework
  • Parallel processing of computationally intensive tasks (e.g., meshing, simulation, postprocessing)

 

 

  • Remote execution via cloud (e.g., Amazon), localhost, GPU server, MPI cluster, p2p, etc.
  • Heavily multi-threaded execution for modeling, meshing, voxeling, and postprocessing

 

 

  • Queuing control instances, statistics
  • Solver control via Sim4Life GUI
  • Intelligent job submission
  • Job progress via a web browser (http based) on mobile devices, etc.

 

 

 

 Key Features - HPC

  • AXE GPU libraries
  • ZMT HPC/CUDA libraries
  • Cluster-MPI for Linux
  • Improved OpenMP parallelization for all of the above mentioned

 

Hardware Acceleration Solutions:
  • NVIDIA GeForce 10 series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 900 (9xx) series
  • NVIDIA K-series
  • NVIDIA 20 series
  • Servers/Workstations with multiple GPU cards

 

  • AXE MPI engine (for multi-CPU/multi-core distributed clusters)