Intelligent Light Releases FieldView 12.1 for CFD
 RUTHERFORD,
NJ, Aug 19, 2008 - FieldView version 12.1 is the fastest version of
FieldView ever delivered bringing substantial post-processing performance
improvements for multi-core workstations and parallel servers. The
performance is complimented by major additions to the renowned FieldView
presentation capabilities. The latest release of FieldView brings many new
tools to help CFD practitioners improve their capability, productivity, and
impact.
 “FieldView
version 12.1 delivers entirely new levels of parallel performance and allows
more information to be clearly communicated using the newly added features
for controlling lighting, rendering, and color composition for maximum
visual impact,” said FieldView product manager Matthew N. Godo, Ph.D. “We’ve
been working with our customers and partners for several years to bring
tools to users that address the emerging challenges of large volumes of data
for complex and often transient simulations and to recognize the need to
improve productivity when extracting insight when delivering results to
their constituents. FieldView 12.1 is already being embraced by our
customers for the parallel performance productivity gains and the ease with
which the functionality fits into existing workflows.”
The high-performance parallel capabilities of FieldView 12.1 mean drastic
reductions in the time required to read-in parallel data and run
simulations. According to Steve M. Legensky, Intelligent Light general
manager, “The large-data performance advancements in FieldView 12.1 are
tremendous. In one case, the improvements in this release reduced what had
been a four-hour task to under 15 seconds on the same hardware. That kind of
performance will clearly help our customers improve productivity and
increase the return on their investment in CFD post-processing with
FieldView.”
Speed, performance benefit large-data users
Customers around the world and across industries are already putting
FieldView 12.1 to the test. In Europe, one aerospace customer reports
routinely handling 50 million element models on multi-core laptops running
64-bit Windows systems. Two of Intelligent Light’s Formula 1 team customers
are using FieldView 12.1 to solve problems that exceed 120 million
tetrahedal elements on deskside and laptop workstations running 64-bit
Windows and Unix operating systems.
The world’s largest aerospace and defense contractors rely on FieldView
for productivity, workflow automation, and accuracy as they develop
next-generation workflows based on multiple solver engines, multi-physics
data, and distributed HPC resources. Global automotive companies, including
Japan’s largest automaker, have developed their engineering capabilities
using FieldView as a standard CFD post-processing tool.
“Major improvements in parallel scaling are seen with this release for
solutions based on both tetrahedral and arbitrary polyhedral meshes,” says
Dr. Godo. “Our collaboration with our solver partners has produced
high-quality data exchange capabilities that take full advantage of the
parallel improvements introduced with FieldView 12.1. Our customers’ ability
to ask and answer complex questions, even as they are working to reduce
their turnaround times, has improved significantly.”
One such partner, ACUSIM Software, maker of the general-purpose, finite
element-based CFD flow solver AcuSolve™, hails the benefits of FieldView
12.1.
“The performance of FieldView 12.1 is remarkable,” says Dr. Farkin Shakib,
ACUSIM founder and president. “High-performance post-processing and fast
data read-in on HPC systems enables complex questions to be asked and
answered in time-critical environments. FieldView’s direct reader for
AcuSolve data is awesome, providing user flexibility and supporting the key
features of our latest release.”
New visualization features provide further enhancement
All FieldView 12.1 users will benefit from new image quality and control
features that augment the application’s renowned visual presentation
capabilities. Image quality tools include advanced lighting controls,
anti-aliasing, and the ability to incorporate background images containing
pictures and logos. Another new tool, multiple color mapping, will enable
engineers to visually draw distinctions between different variables in a
single image or animation – illustrating multiple physical properties, such
as shock vs. axial-flow, or model elements, such as temperature of wall vs.
flow domain.
“These new image control features build on FieldView’s traditional
strength of superior presentation capabilities,” Dr. Godo says. “Clearly and
effectively communicating complex simulation results in order to deliver
answers and insights quickly requires powerful, yet easy to use,
visualization tools, and FieldView 12.1 provides the best in the industry.”
New release brings similar improvements to new platforms
The new release for Apple MAC OS (version 10.5) delivers high performance
with a native MAC / Intel FieldView port. “FieldView and MAC make life easy
and productive for the SimCenter team. FieldView is used to support our
roles as CFD practitioners and developers of both software and methods, and
the 12.1 release has performed solidly on both MAC systems and our LINUX
servers,” said Steve Karman, research professor, Ph.D., UT SimCenter at
Chattanooga.
FieldView 12.1 will be the first release to include a 64-bit FieldView
server for Windows HPC Server family of operating systems from Microsoft.
Microsoft and Intelligent Light are working together to insure that HPC
clusters running Windows HPC Server get the best possible performance from
their hardware investment.
About Intelligent Light
Intelligent Light, located in Rutherford, New Jersey, was founded in 1984
with a mission to provide the scientific and engineering community with the
best possible tools for understanding data and communicating results. The
company provides CFD post-processing and big data visualization capability,
under the industry leading FieldView brand and through its Applied Research
Group, to thousands of HPC users in the aerospace, automotive and general
manufacturing industries. Their unique development team is composed of CFD
leaders, computer scientists, and visualization experts focused on listening
to clients and delivering products that meet their needs.
For more information, visit
www.ilight.com.
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