PRACE industrial seminar 2013 Requirements for SME's in HPC

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Headline / TitelPRACE industrial seminar 2013Requirements for SME's in HPC

by: Ralph Eisenschmid, process engineer


• 350 employees in pharma sector

• 1700 employees worldwide

• 240 million EUR revenues (consolidated, 2012)

• >Export share 80%

Excellence in packaging

• Development and manufacture of

filling and packaging machinery

• Family enterprise in the

3rd generation

• Global structures

• High employee satisfaction

• Excellent qualification level

• Process understanding

• Outstanding commitment to R & D


ExpertiseSterile and non-sterile filling / packaging and well-coating solutions

for diagnostics and pharmaceutical products

ProductsFully automated machines for the processing of liquid, pasty and powdery products in bottles, vials,

microvials, cartridges and cuvettes. Fully automatic well-coating lines for microtitre plates.

Focus / SpecialityProcessing of a wide variety of closure and container shapes on a single machine.

Nonsterile Filling


ExpertiseSterilizable freeze drying plants and fully automatic loading andunloading systems for the pharmaceutical industry.

ProductsCustomized solutions for vials, ampoules, syringes.

Focus / SpecialityUpgrades from pilot plants to production plants with flexible systems and highest level of automation.

Lyophilisation


Isolation Technology

ExpertiseDesign, manufacture, installation and validation of customized isolators.

ProductsIsolators for liquid / powder filling / lyo loading/unloading systems (aseptic and/or potent),ebeam tunnels for syringe tub sterilization, gastight doors, H202 rapid gassing transfer chambers.

Focus / SpecialityM + P isolators are used worldwide to protect high value products during their manufacture, preparation and dispensing from process generated and external contamination.


• One stop shop / Synergy effect

• Fast and educated decisions for a

consistent concept

• Constant improvement of quality

• Customized Turn-Key Solutions

• Shorter time to market

• Better return on investment (ROI)

• Improved economic efficiency

• Global agreements

Benefits

© OPTIMA packaging group GmbH

Test: Laminar Flow simulation with COMSOL Multiphysics on VisCluster, HLRS, Uni Stuttgart, thanks to Dr. Uwe Wössner

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First steps in HPC: Commercial CFD software used by Optima pharma

benefit: convenience GUI modeler

drawback: bad scaling, bad mesh, bad convergence, License expenses


Test: Laminar Flow simulation with OpenFOAM on Laki Cluster, HLRS, Uni Stuttgart, thanks to Dr. Uwe Wössner (COVISE visualization) and Bärbel Große-Wöhrmann (setup Laki config)

First steps in HPC: opensource CFD software (will be) used by Optima pharma

benefit: good scaling, good mesh, good convergence, no License expenses

drawback: no GUI modeler


• ooops - HPC available for SME's ??? We think, only research institutes and large companies and defense can make use of it?

• where can we find HPC partners? How does it work and is it affordable for us? One hour calculations on a supercomputer = 1 Mio $ ???

• We are afraid to use HPC, because these alien machines make us weird

• Where can we get knowledge how to handle a supercomputer, where can we get support? What expenses are coming up?

• Can we ruin our company by sending a wrong command to a supercomputer? Crash hardware or software?

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Our first questions (bad shots) and requirements as typical SME's


• I was lucky to know some people at HLRS, and felt free to ask them, but others???

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First impressions looking up a HPC website

Are we welcome here?

We are medium

size SME.....

hmmm...

we are not sure ?!


• this looks more inviting:

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First impressions looking up a HPC website - improved

SME's welcome here - feel free to contact us, we are not bitchy - click here!


• almost no "supercomputing" hits at regional businessdevelopment government administration

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presence in business development


• self-perception of SME's

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where are we now?

World of HPC

Institutes Defense

service

providers

Researchers

some Big Companies

World

of SME's missinglink


• more promotion of HPC access for SME's in media also known by SME's, i.e. "VDI Nachrichten" - not in the "The Journal of Supercomputing"

• promotion by government administration

• consulting on use of opensource software

• guidelines to HPC consultants (academic and commercial)

• specific help on obstacles regarding usage of HPC environment

• more public HPC introduction by seminars and conferences (like PRACE events)

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what can be improved?


• Thank you !

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end of presentation


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