株式会社ヴァイナス - VINAS - Best Partner for Best Solution! CAEユーザーにとって最高のソリューションを提供する最良のパートナーを目指します

Hall A  11:00 - 11:15

VINAS provides various services including CFD mesh generation, visualization of analysis results, CFD analyses based on open source solvers, technical support and consulting for efficiency improvement in design optimization, automated systems development and workflow structures. We support our users from various angles. This session covers an overview of our support services, consulting and development, as well as actual examples of them will be presented.

Hall A  11:15 - 11:50

New features such as MP4 video export and VTK reader have been available in FieldView 16.1, making it more convenient and easy to use. VINAS Reporter Series and Plot Expert which are the add-on programs for FieldView will also be introduced at the presentation.

Hall A  11:50 - 12:25

In the research and development of high-performance jet engines, it is becoming more important to draw useful insights from CFD analysis results than just performing visualization of them. The presentation covers IHI’s approach in use of various evaluation features of FieldView in order to gain highly valuable technological insights.

Hall A  13:45 - 14:00

Pointwise V18 is applied to improve the mesh generation and the accuracy of CFD, featuring new T-REX wit tri/quad hybrid surface mesh and tet/hex boundary mesh. The updated information of Pointwise V18 and the technical support, training anf consultancy at VINAS will be presented and demonstrated.

Hall A  14:00 - 14:35

In 2014, NASA commissioned the CFD Vision 2030 Study to forecast software and hardware needed for optimal CFD analyses by the year 2030. This presentation will detail Pointwise efforts towards developing meshing technologies needed to reach these ambitious goals.

Hall A  14:35 - 15:10

By targeting complex geometries river structures (such as a dam), we developed a technology to perform 3D analysis of the transportation of water and sediment and changes in geometries of water surface and river beds. By simulating complex geometry using hybrid mesh, it allows both high accuracy and usability analysis.

Hall A  15:30 - 15:45

HELYX® is OpenFOAM®-based CFD software with user-friendly GUI for variety of CFD work in company. We will introduce overview of HELYX® and our technical support and consulting service.

Hall A  15:45 - 16:20

In this presentation, we describe the new client-server framework available in HELYX® v3 to enable remote connections to HPC resources and cloud-based computing platforms for performing CFD simulations. The client-server provides the user with an accessible interface to interactively mesh, set-up, solve and post-process CFD models using the GUI, while the data resides safely on the remote machine to minimise the risks associated with data transfers between different locations. The open-source nature of the advanced CFD utilities and solvers delivered with HELYX® also provides a highly flexible and cost-effective solution for making efficient use of HPC resources available on-demand, all without the burden of complicated and expensive license systems.

Hall A  16:20 - 16:55

More affordable and faster computing resources have made CFD available to a wider range of industries. The talk will focus on the building industry and describe, through a series of practical examples, how CFD can be efficiently integrated in the design process.

Hall A  17:10 - 17:45

We are planning to improve efficiency of analysis computing environment, by transferring external aerodynamic computing (calculation of ΔCD with "RANS steady-state") which is using commercial solver in operation for mass production development, to computing system using HELYX® v 2.5.0 (to utilize pre-post workstation's down-time at night).

Hall A  17:45 - 18:20

With improvement of super-computers, engineering application of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with several hundred billions of grids scale has been made possible, and replacement of experiments in wind tunnels and water tanks with such simulations is becoming a real possibility. However, there are some issues to be solved before we can put such kind of large scale analyses into practice. In this presentation, I will cover the advancing research and development of how to solve these issues with the speed and functionality of FFB improvements, the developing plan and current developing stage of a new code for FFX based on LBM.

Hall B  11:00 - 11:15

The latest version of TURBOdesign Suite presents the improved relation among the modules and efficiency for turbomachinery design. The outline of TURBOdesign Suite V6.3 and technical support, training and consulting service at VINAS will be presented.

Hall B  11:15 - 11:50

TURBODesign1 is used as the core component in several fully automated workflows for incompressible fan blade geometry generation. The implemented workflows, featuring different software solutions for automatic optimization, are presented. It is found in particular that the TD1 internal parameters match well with integral values obtained from high-fidelity CFD solutions.

Hall B  11:50 - 12:25

We achieved significant improvement of efficiency of a turbofan used for indoor units of air-conditioners by using TURBOdesign-1 in the design process.

Hall B  13:45 - 14:00

We are offering the optimization design using DAKOTA from 2012, in response to the increasing demand for multi-object optimization design. VINAS integrate JAXA developed multipurpose design exploration tool CHEETAH and RIKEN developed CAE process automation tool WHEEL as “Integrated Design Optimize System (iDIOS)” and introduce them at this lecture.

Hall B  14:00 - 14:35

CUBE is an integrated simulation framework which applies a data structure based on hierarchical Cartesian grids to phenomena of fluid, structural, chemical resistance and acoustics in an integrated manner. It is currently under development and will realize the next generation of CAE, including real-time/real-world simulations and optimization, which will be discussed in this presentation.

Hall B  14:35 - 15:10

In the fields of drug discovery and material science, there are increased demands for large-scale and highly efficient capacity computing based on a supercomputer in order to search for substances having specific features from among enormous amount of candidate substances. The presentation covers main functions of a workflow system which is now being developed by RIKEN and Kyushu University for running on a supercomputer, as well as its development plans.

Hall B  15:30 - 15:45

The newest information for the latest version of Sculptor V3.8, the shape optimization system using Mesh/Geometry morphing, will be shown in the session, and then technical trend of shape optimization in our service/solition on design optimization will also be shown.

Hall B  15:45 - 16:20

Recent enhancements to all aspects of Sculptor’s capabilities and features will be reviewed. Exciting real world examples will be shown from Sculptor users such as Cummins, Harley-Davidson, Pratt-Whitney, and others. Exciting new Shape Matching examples that help analyze the CFD/FEA of as-built parts without re-CAD or re-meshing.

Hall B  16:20 - 16:55

TURBOdesign optima is the one of the module of TURBOdesign Suite, the integrated turbomachinery design package, and optimize and improve the performance with DoE, RSM and GA. The outline of TURBOdesign optima and its case studies will be presented.

Hall B  17:10 - 17:45

ISAS/JAXA has developed multiobjective design exploration software CHEETAH under the strategic programs for innovative research (SPIRE) "Industrial Innovation." The presentation gives an overview of the software and its application examples in the field of space science.

Hall B  17:45 - 18:20

It is possible to explore Pareto frontier between objective functions efficiently even under conditions of real-world optimization problem of large scale variables with many constraint conditions using CHEETAH, a multi-objective evolutional computational algorithm.

Hall C  11:00 - 11:15

VINAS provides technical services such as development of high-speed linear solvers and cloud computer utilization support systems, consultation in high-speed computation, and automation of design processes. The presentation gives an overview of our technical services based on R&D related to supercomputers and HPCs, including the latest technologies in cloud computing and AI.

Hall C  11:15 - 11:50

K⁴ is a GUI-based drug discovery application developed by the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation. It enables researchers who are not familiar with computational technology to perform sophisticated drug discovery computations fairly easily.

Hall C  11:50 - 12:25

FOCUS supercomputer has been enhanced with 14 additional nodes (two of which are provided with a NVIDIA Tesla P100) in F system and 136 additional nodes in H system in the previous year, and 12 additional nodes in F system in 2017. As a result, general purpose double-precision floating point computational capacity of F and H systems has reached 57.8 TFLOPS, which is 215% of the total of A, B and C systems (26.8 TFLOPS) introduced in March 2013, and 113% of D and E systems (51.2 TFLOPS) introduce in January 2016. Details of the latest enhancements, usage and operation status, and the ways it has been utilized will be presented.

Hall C  13:45 - 14:00

VINAS provides HPC cloud solutions that robustly support use and management of cloud computers and HPCs and improve efficiency of CAE workflows. Features provided by our solutions include job executions and high-speed file transfer on HPCs and integrated management of utilization information

Hall C  14:00 - 14:35

Today, the resources to run an HPC large scale scientific computing are available when needed by using a cloud service. In this session we will introduce Microsoft Azure which has various instances with HPC technology, InfiniBand for between computational nodes, GPGPU, and so on.

Hall C  14:35 - 15:10

Information Technology Center, Nagoya University launched support services for data science in 2016. First of this presentation, an overview of actual examples for tools that are adopted for this service are explained. Second, a topic of our research on automatic performance tuning for numerical libraries will be presented. The research is aimed to automate tuning skills of experts by utilizing a spotlighted technology of deep learning.

Hall C  15:30 - 15:45

We will introduce our HPC consulting service which is based on the development experience of the high-speed and robust matrix solver SMS over the years

Hall C  15:45 - 16:20

The 11 March 2011 earthquake caused transmission lines between transmission towers to contact with each other due to the earthquake motion. In order to understand the mechanism of this phenomenon, we performed a 3D soil-structure dynamic effective stress analysis of transmission tower foundations. We used SMS-MF in the 3D analysis program to speed-up the calculation.

Hall C  16:20 - 16:55

We present our activity in the field of computational molecular science. Recent works on developing molecular science applications for quantum chemistry calculation as well as molecular dynamics simulation, collaborating with academic institutes, will be introduced.

Hall C  17:10 - 17:45

We have been developing a fragment molecular orbital (FMO) program ABINIT-MP and promoting the related applications including coarse-grained simulations. In addition, we are now introducing machine learning technologies. Details of these activities will be discussed in the presentation.

Hall C  17:45 - 18:20

We are developing a molecular dynamics software called GENESIS. It was originally developed for analyzing large scale biomolecule dynamics on a super-parallel supercomputer such as K-computer, and is now capable of efficiently conducting various function analyses of biomolecules such as proteins thanks to addition of algorithms for replica-exchange molecular dynamics method, String method, and so on. Recently, we developed an algorithm to predict free energy of binding between a protein and a drug candidate compound, which is expected to accelerate drug discovery research.