CT calculations

Computer calculations have a long tradition at the Institute of Thermomechanics. As soon as the first computers were first available, they were immediately put to use. First external hall computers, then minicomputers and calculators in the Institute of Thermodynamics. then the PC era began, alpha servers were used for larger tasks and the first Cray supercomputer in the country.

Nowadays, PCs are used again and for larger tasks multiprocessor x86 servers and now cluster solutions.

Both specialized, tailor-made programs and commercial programs are used for computations in IT. such as Matlab, ANSYS, FLUENT, and also a proprietary system for solving finite element problems, PMD, is being developed in-house.

Our current computing resources (except for personal computers) are presented on the following pages:

• Cluster KRAKEN
• Other (and decommissioned) servers

Documentation and tutorials on how to use the programs are on the following pages:

• Software on the Kraken cluster
• ANSYS documentation
• PMD documentation