May 15, 2018

Envenio

Envenio CEO Ian McLeod and VP Scott Walton talk us through their company and how GPUs are changing the face of CFD

New Episode – New Tech. In this one we’re looking at the move towards GPUs for compute & talking about that with Envenio - one of the CFD companies looking to take maximum advantage of this emerging hardware trend.

I’m not super-familiar with what you can (and can’t) do with a GPU in a CFD context - so forgive me if I ask some 101-level questions. Ian McLeod (CEO) & Scott Walton (VP Business Development) kindly fill me in on:

  • where the trend towards GPU compute is coming from and where it might be going
  • does new architecture need new “clean-sheet” software?
  • what sort of speedup can we expect from this new hardware-software combination?
  • some of the marketing lessons they learned trying to build up a new brand & reach CFD users

There’s another GPU episode this season - so that probably makes it one of the season themes - it’s almost like we plan these things ;-)

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