Stamping Simulation in Pentium PC and Linux Environment

This paper describes the performance improvement and cost savings achieved by the Stamping Technology Department at DaimlerChrysler Corporation (Chrysler group), in migrating from Unix workstations with RISC technology to Linux PCs with Intel Pentium technology. Performance comparisons of various engineering applications running on these two system configurations are analyzed. The major aspects such as hardware configuration, operating system, software availability, compatibility, reliability, accuracy and consistency of simulation results are discussed.

The improvement in computing speed and deviations in simulation results between MPP LS-Dyna and SMP LS-Dyna are presented.