Run computational fluid dynamics on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure quickly and easily with Oracle Quick Start

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a common workload that simulates the motion of air and fluid to simplify and speed product engineering in industries like Manufacturing. As CFD continues to grow in popularity, especially in the cloud, it needs a robust and performant infrastructure. By moving this tightly coupled MPI-based workload to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), you can benefit from Oracle’s RDMA Cluster Networking and some of the most high-performing instances in the cloud.

Benefits of CFD on OCI

Some of the industry’s most popular CFDs include Ansys Fluent, LS-DYNA, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and OpenFOAM, all of which can run on OCI with Oracle Quick Start with great performance and ease. By running on OCI, you get best price-performance for your workloads, which means shorter go-to-market time and lower costs. You get all the benefits of being on the cloud, which means scalability, high availability, and security.

Reference architecture

We created reference architectures to ensure high throughput local storage, low latency networks, and optimized CPUs for the most efficient runs for these applications. The typical architecture for these CFDs uses one small machine, called the bastion, in the public subnet, while the Compute nodes live on a separate, private network linked with RDMA RoCE v2 networking. These Compute nodes can either be BM.Optimized3.36 or BM.HPC2.36 because they’re ideal for workloads that require the highest single threaded performance. With the cluster, you can also attach block volumes at 32k IOPS per volume on top of the NVME SSD storage that comes with these shapes to hold all of your data. For more detail on these reference architectures, see the Ansys Fluent, LS-DYNA, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and OpenFOAM solutions.

Get started today

Start your 30-day free trial and get access to a wide range of Oracle Cloud services for 30 days, including BM.HPC2.36. You can use the following GitHub repositories to easily deploy these CFD applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Ansys Fluent, LS-DYNA, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, and OpenFOAM. If you want to learn more about running CFDs, check out our CFD page.