FieldView, the popular CFD simulation and visualization tool, has a new version out with some huge improvements in multi-core and parallel processing.
“We are seeing a huge productivity speedup from using FieldView Parallel 12.2,” Robinson continued. “Testing a typical 60M element file, going from our traditional single grid file to multi-grid and using 16 processors, we’ve cut the file read time from 5 minutes, 10 seconds to just 40 seconds – nearly eight times faster. Reading in large data can be incredibly time-consuming, and our large files sometimes exceed 200M elements. FieldView Parallel provides the solution at the very time we`re recognizing this growing problem.”
They give some anecdotal numbers of a 2x speedup on 4 cores, and a 5x speedup on 8 cores, making it not entirely linear but still a pretty impressive performance boost.
