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With the new OpenCL compliant release,  structural and multiphysics simulations in Abaqus 6.11 can now been accelerated using a wide range of non-proprietary hardware platforms

Back in May 2011 Nvidia talked up new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) compute capabilities in Simulia Abaqus 6.11, which made use of Nvidia’s proprietary parallel computing architecture, CUDA.

Now there’s some official news from AMD that simulations in the structural and multiphysics analysis software can also be accelerated by its GPU hardware. The new OpenCL compliant release of Abaqus 6.11 can use CPUs and GPUs from a range of hardware vendors including Intel, AMD (FirePro / FireStream) and Nvidia (Quadro / Tesla).

“We deliver significant time and cost savings to our customers by enabling them to virtually test their product’s real-world performance during the design phase by using our robust and scalable realistic simulation solutions,” said Matt Dunbar, chief architect, Simulia, Dassault Systèmes. “By incorporating the OpenCL programming interface into our current Abaqus release, we are providing more graphic hardware choices and accelerating compute performance which will enhance our customers’ ability to deliver innovative, high-quality products to market faster.”

“Many of the tasks that used to take a full day to complete can now be done in about half that time with GPU compute, saving engineering time and resources during product research and design, and reducing overall time to market,” said Sandeep Gupte, general manager, AMD Professional Graphics. “With Simulia’s latest realistic simulation software, which is compliant with OpenCL standards, engineers can achieve precise results in their design analysis with minimal hardware limitations.”

DEVELOP3D expects more announcements in relation to OpenCL and simulation software later this year.