Alya, nominated as "Top Supercomputing Achievement of 2014" by HPCWwire

26 September 2014

Alya is one of the twelve codes representing European state of the art HPC scientific codes included in the unified PRACE benchmark suite.

BSC has been nominated as one of the  "Top Supercomputing Achievement of 2014" by HPCwire. The winner will be decided by popular vote.

BSC has been nominated in the 2014 Annual HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards for Alya: Towards Exascale for Engineering Simulation Codes.

Each year the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards are determined by readers across the HPC community, to recognize the most outstanding individuals and organizations in the industry. Voting for the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards began 1 September 2014 and will end on 3 October 2014. The announcement and final presentation of these prestigious and highly anticipated awards will take place live during SC ’14 in New Orleans, LA.

Alya is a multiphysics code developed at BSC. It is one of the twelve codes representing European state of the art HPC scientific codes included in the unified PRACE benchmark suite (http://www.prace-ri.eu/ueabs/). It is also one of the projects supported by PRACE and present in these awards: http://www.prace-ri.eu/hpcwire-readerschoice-2014/.

Alya code scaled to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters supercomputer
BSC and the Private Sector Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have collaborated to scale BSC’s Alya multi-physics code to a previously unprecedented 100,000 cores of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer, simulating engineering complex problems such as airflow in the human body, contraction of the heart or combustion in a kiln furnace.

While the majority of multi-physics codes are not prepared for large-scale simulations in supercomputers, with efficiency dropping as problems are scaled to a wider number of processors, Alya achieved more than 85 percent parallel efficiency running on Blue Waters.

Further information about Alya Code here

To vote: www.hpcwire.com/2014-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/