High Performance Computing
in the Cloud for Fire Dynamic
Simulator (FDS).
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Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS)

Run FDS in the cloud using Sabalcore’s flexible and easy to use High Performance Computing service. Our HPC Cloud allows fire engineers to easily configure and run FDS simulations. Dramatically increase processing power and complete your simulations quickly. In some cases, 10x faster.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. This type of solver requires high-performance computing (HPC) systems to complete simulations in a reasonable time. Use our HPC systems to process very large or numerous FDS models.

  • Pay-as-you-go pricing
  • Turn-key – everything is ready to go
  • Perfect for small to very large simulations requiring 100s of CPUs
  • Run dozens of simulations at once
  • Run Smokeview directly in the cloud
  • Works well with your existing workflow
  • Download results quickly

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Run your FDS models in the Cloud with Sabalcore HPC.

Bridge the gap between a PC and a High Performance Computing Cluster. Complete FDS simulations fast with Sabalcore’s HPC cloud service.

Bridge the gap between a PC and a High Performance Computing Cluster. Complete FDS simulations fast with Sabalcore’s HPC cloud service.

Run in parallel to increase performance. Import your models from PyroSim™. Remote Visualization for Smokeview and file management.

Sabalcore Cloud is Built for High Performance

Sabalcore provides “bare-metal” cores only. Nothing is virtualized. Bare-metal provides the highest processing efficiency and scalability for your most demanding simulations. Typical cloud providers use virtual CPUs enabled by hyperthreading by default which significantly decreases performance which impacts your simulation time. Sabalcore dedicates a full CPU core for each FDS process thread which improves simulation time and cost.

“Using virtual cores can greatly reduce the performance of FDS.” -NIST

Sabalcore HPC Cloud vs. Amazon AWS

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Sabalcore HPC Cloud for FDS and Smokeview

Workstation in the Cloud

Sabalcore’s ssClient with remote desktop capability and command-line interfaces allows for easy migration to the cloud. Run Smokeview while the simulation is running.  The session is persistent and can be accessed anywhere, anytime without interrupting the simulation.

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PyroSim™

It’s easy for PyroSim users to run their simulations at Sabalcore. Simply export the fds file from PyroSim, copy it to your Sabalcore account, and launch the simulation. You can actively control, monitor, and access all the output files of your simulation in real-time using our built-in remote desktop.

Sabalcore HPC Remote Desktop with FDS and Smokeview
Sabalcore Remote Desktop with Fire Dynamic Simulator

Why use Sabalcore HPC Cloud?

Sabalcore HPC systems were specifically designed to run computationally intensive numerical applications with performance, efficiency and reliability in mind. Sabalcore compute systems, storage systems, and networks are bare-metal and operate without performance restrictions. The Sabalcore platform was built specifically for CFD applications that use MPI for multi-node processing such as FDS.

Start simulating quickly. Get the most out of the cloud with our bare-metal HPC clusters. Simply log into the service, upload your model using the built-in transfer client, select your compute resources, and run your models.

  • "Lightning Fast"

    Access compute resources in seconds.

    Download fast using our proprietary file transfer technology.

    High performance interconnects (NVIDIA® Mellanox® Quantum™ Infiniband) – critical for FDS with MPI

    High performance parallel file system – load is distributed across numerous targets simultaneously for optimal performance.

  • Free Account, free data storage

    User accounts are free. You only pay for CPU time (core-hours) and data storage.

    Pay-per-use billing. Pay only for what you use.

    Data storage included. 100GB free each month.

  • Turn Key

    Access compute resources in seconds.

    Everything is ready to go. Start simulating in minutes.

  • Support

    Back versions of FDS available and easily accessible.

    Extensive batch, queue, and scripting capabilities.

    Technical support included.

Testimonials

I am VERY impressed so far by your service. I had the trial account details in my inbox this morning, and within 2 hours had ported one of our codes onto your platform and run an initial test job. I spent a lot of time last year trying…the compute-on-demand services ‘offered’ by some of your competition. With one of them it took…a month to sort out all the technical problems of porting our code

In almost every way the support and communication provided by Sabalcore has been excellent.

I will again say that support from Sabalcore has been beyond anything I have experienced with on-demand computing. I hope to again use your service in the near future.

Thanks again for all your help, it’s really great to be able to access this type of computing power in an easy way, with great support.

I will definitely recommended [Sabalcore] in the future to anyone interested in HPC.

Over the past 5 years since doing business with Sabalcore, we have have been extremely satisfied with their service. We never experienced any downtime or interruption of service during our extensive production runs. In addition, the performance benefit of running jobs in one tenth the time it would take to run on our in house compute cluster helped keep production on track and profitable. Add to that the outstanding customer service and you have one very happy customer. Thank you for the excellent service. We look forward to doing business with you in the future.

First of all let me give you the feedback about the experience with Sabalcore services: simply excellent. The performance is really impressive [and is] far better than I was expecting.

We would like to thank Sabalcore’s team for the excellent, high-quality services (and support) provided since last year.

I [want] to let you know that we are extremely impressed so far with the level of service (in many aspects including calculation speed and user interface) and are looking forward to continually using your services.

I am personally very happy with the level of service provided, as you have given us everything we requested, and more. I think that without your service we would have had to either alter our timelines or validation procedures, and I am glad we did not have to do so.

Fantastic, it is working now! Thank you for your help, this is great service!

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