Helicopter company chooses Linux cluster

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
08/09/05
Today's focus: Helicopter company chooses Linux cluster

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* The Eurocopter Group chose a Linux Networx Evolocity cluster
  to perform simulations on helicopters and helicopter subsystems
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Today's focus: Helicopter company chooses Linux cluster

By Deni Connor

Linux Networx, a Linux cluster vendor, announced last week that
The Eurocopter Group has installed one of its clusters at its
German engineering location to allow them to more efficiently
manipulate data necessary for the design of their helicopters.

The company, part of the European, Aeronautic and Space Defense
Company (EADS) also makes AIRBUS airplanes. Eurocopter chose a
Linux Networx Evolocity cluster to perform simulations on
helicopters and helicopter subsystems. It uses two computational
fluid dynamics applications - FLOWer and FLUENT - to simulate
airflow scenarios: <http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers4697>

"We are doing design studies on our helicopters for our rotors,"
says Dr. Andree Altmikus, aerodynamic design engineer for
Eurocopter Deutschland.

Altmikus had a 5-year-old machine that needed replacing.
Eurocopter was open to any machine that employed a shared memory
architecture.

"Our objective was to find a machine that was roughly 10 times
faster than the old one," he says. "We found out very fast that
the price/performance relationship was in favor of Linux
clusters."

Eurocopter's Evolocity cluster consists of 20 dual-processor AMD
Opteron 248 servers with a total of 160 G bytes of memory:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/1104linuxnet.html?rl>

The Opteron 248 runs at 2.2 GHz. Each Opteron is joined with
InfiniBand interconnects from Mellanox to increase the
performance of the cluster. The cluster runs SuSE Linux.

Altmikus manages the cluster with Linux Networx Clusterworx and
IceBox. The IceBox appliance combines a serial terminal server
and remote-controlled power distribution for simplified cluster
management.

Altmikus' cluster has internal storage and is attached to about
2 terabytes of SCSI disks.

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