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Supercomputing collaboration case study HPC Midlands launch event Lionel Mazzella Plant Modelling Team Leader E.ON New Build & Technology 20 th March 2013

HPC Midlands - E.ON Supercomputing Case Study

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Lionel Mazzella, Plant Modelling Team Leader at E.ON New Build and Technology, presents a supercomputing collaboration case study around E.ON's use of HPC Midlands to accelerate their innovation. For more information, please see http://hpc-midlands.ac.uk

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Supercomputing collaboration case studyHPC Midlands launch event

Lionel MazzellaPlant Modelling Team Leader

E.ON New Build & Technology

20th March 2013

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Agenda

1. E.ON New Build & Technology 2. Plant Modelling Team3. CFD projects4. HPC Trial: Historic5. HPC Trial: Test Project6. HPC Trial: Outcome7. HPC for what?

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E.ON New Build & Technology

We realise E.ON’s cleaner and better strategy.

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Ratcliffe, Nottingham

Gelsenkirchen

Hannover

Our aim it’s to engineer a cleaner and better future for E.ON by delivering world-class solutions from ideas to reality.

Actively involved on nearly 300 locations in Europe and Russia, with a total output of more than 60GW.

More than 1,200 employees.

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Plant Modelling team

Part of E.ON New Build & Technology’s Software & Modelling Department.

Team of engineers and scientists delivering:

Thermodynamic Modelling Consultancy (PROATES®)

On-line Performance Monitoring (PROATES PMS)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Various R&D modelling projects (E.g. CSP and Energy storage)

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Tertiary

Secondary

Primary

Tertiary

Secondary

Primary

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CFD projects: Gas turbine blade heat transfer

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HP Vane: htc

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surface distance (mm)

htc

no film cooling

with film cooling

Aerothermal Analysis of Heat Transfer to Blades Necessary Starting Point for Lifetime Prediction

Predict GT Blade Lifetimes Potential to Provide Considerable Savings

Compute Heat

Transfer Coefficients

& Gas Temps

Model Film Cooling

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CFD projects: Steam flow behaviour in a steam dome

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Looking at impact of power upgrade CFD shows vortex formation in dome High levels of swirl induced in steam lines Leads to steam line vibration problems Steady-state 21 Million cells. (HP Z800 Workstations)

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HPC Trial: Historic

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June 2011 First contact with Loughborough University

July 2011 First meeting with HPC Midlands people and look at Hydra

October 2011 Working meeting at the Loughborough University

November 2011 Defining HPC trial scope and project to be used for the test

December 2011 Meeting with ANSYS, licensing support for the HPC trial

January 2012 Meeting with E.ON IT and looking at connectivity options

July 2012 HPC Trial completion

August 2012 HPC Trial report completion

October 2012 Presentation of the report to HPC Midlands

February 2013 Meeting with HPC Midlands, Hera visit and commercial discussions

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HPC Trial: Test Project

Original work was to simulate the dispersion of natural gas from leaks occurring within a ventilated gas turbine enclosure.

Work part of an assessment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Executive regulations.

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HP Workstation xw8600 Xeon E5405 CPU, 2 cores

4.5M elements meshing Steady state, complex geometry, simple physics 340 iterations, around 24 hours to complete More than 10 simulations requested for the work

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HPC Trial: Outcome

The HPC Trial reviewed a range of configurations:

Simulations with 24 to 128 CPU cores.

6 different meshes used from 4.5 to 80 million cells.

Normalised results for 2010 this gives an equivalent time of 5240 sec.

HPC speeds-up from 30 to 145 times the 2010 values.

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Grid 1 4.5M elements 24 cores

Grid 2 8M elements 48 cores

Grid 3 15M elements 48 cores

Grid 4 25M elements 60 cores

Grid 5 45M elements 128 cores

Grid 6 80M elements 128 cores

2010 Figure – 5240 secThe lower this number the better

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HPC for what?

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Solution

Partnership

Desktop Small cluster HPC

Pow

er

Linear models

Non-linear models

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Biggest advantage of the HPC is likely to be for jobs that:

Have large parameter spaces.

Are time dependent.

Have complex geometry.

Have very complex physics.

A combination of the above.

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