Here our expert roundtable panel – hosted by specialist HPC integrator OCF – discusses current thinking on today’s most important engineering simulation issues.
As consumers demand ever more capability for their investment, technology disruption is rapidly becoming a fixture in the product design cycle. This disruption inevitably leads to an increase in demand for more and more product and system protypes, all delivered on time and on budget. For manufacturers under pressure to meet this demand, the need to maintain tight control over development costs for cutting-edge applications means that engineering simulation on HPC platforms is becoming more widespread than ever. Once the exclusive province of big ticket applications such as defence, aerospace and automotive, over the past few decades product design simulation has trickled down into smaller scale applications, to the point where that flow has become one of the features of product development at...