Reviewing best practices for running CFD on AWS
CFD, being very compute-intensive, needs to be scaled massively to be practical for companies that depend on analysis results to make decisions about their product designs. AWS allows customers to run CFD simulations at a massive scale (thousands of cores), on-demand, with multiple commercial and open source tools, and without any capacity planning or up-front capital investment. You can find many useful links related to CFD on AWS here: https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/cfd/.
As highlighted at the outset of this chapter, there are several commercial and open source tools available to solve your CFD problems that run at scale on AWS. Some of these tools are as follows:
- Siemens SimCenter STAR-CCM+
- Ansys Fluent
- OpenFOAM (open source)
In this chapter, we will be providing you with examples of how to set up and use OpenFOAM. For other tools, please take a look at this workshop provided by AWS: https://cfd-on-pcluster.workshop...