Success Story: Software development and comparative assessment

NCC presenting the success story

Croatian Competence Centre (HR HPC CC) provides end users from scientific and higher education communities, various industries and public administrations, access to innovative solutions adapted to the level of maturity of national and European High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. HR HPC CC helps strengthen existing and develop new national competencies for High-Performance Computing (HPC), High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Industrial Organisations Involved:

IB-Nujić j.d.o.o. is a specialized office for flow modelling with numerous projects over the past 20 years. The Office has worked on various models for use in water management, including Hydro_AS-2D, Hydro_GS-2D, Hydro_FT-2D, Laser_AS-2D, flow network generator, etc. More than 400 hundred institutions worldwide have successfully implemented the models.

Technical/scientific Challenge:

IB-Nujić j.d.o.o. is a specialized office for flow modelling with numerous projects over the past 20 years. The Office has worked on various models for use in water management, including Hydro_AS-2D, Hydro_GS-2D, Hydro_FT-2D, Laser_AS-2D, flow network generator, etc. More than 400 hundred institutions worldwide have successfully implemented the models.

Solution:

Coding specialists have worked with the code developer to optimize the Fortran code in question using OpenMP and MPI. Achieved parallelization/scalability has been assessed on different platforms and an HPC system. NCC has provided HPC resources for the specific use case. Software licensing has been implemented and evaluated. Accuracy of the results the code provides has been compared with the results calculated by market competitors. Cooperation is still ongoing, with focus on commercialization and HPC-deployed software adoption.

Business impact:

Coding specialists have worked with the code developer to optimize the Fortran code in question using OpenMP and MPI. Achieved parallelization/scalability has been assessed on different platforms and an HPC system. NCC has provided HPC resources for the specific use case. Software licensing has been implemented and evaluated. Accuracy of the results the code provides has been compared with the results calculated by market competitors. Cooperation is still ongoing, with focus on commercialization and HPC-deployed software adoption.

Benefits:

  • Increased performance and scalability
  • Competitive edge
  • Use of new methodologies/technologies/hardware

SUCCESS STORY # HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Software, OpenMP, Code Development
  • Industry sector: Mechanical engineering, Environmental engineering
  • Technology: HPC

Contact:

Lado Kranjčević lado.kranjcevic@riteh.hr

This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro