Google Cloud EDEM Altair Unlocks Billion-Particle Models

The more realistic these simulations get, the less time and money businesses need to spend refining their designs and prototypes

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EDEM simulates and analyses a wide range of materials’ behaviours, including coal, mined ores, soils, fibres

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A high-performance software programme for simulating bulk and granular materials is called EDEM Altair

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The maximum two decades ago was 200,000 particles, requiring up to ten days to generate in a simulation

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GPUs are extremely effective at handling the massive volumes of data and intricate computations required for EDEM simulations because they are specifically made to handle parallel processing tasks

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EDEM was initially intended to be a desktop application and has only ever worked with shared-memory architectures that are hosted on a single host

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A 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and 2 TB of host memory were also included in the system

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The processing power for high-performance computations is provided by H100 GPUs for more details govindhtech.com

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