Coping with the Analysis Data Deluge
by Kenneth Wong
Last November, Scott Imlay, Ph.D., chief technology officer of Tecplot Inc., made a short trip across the bridge from his company's headquarters in Bellevue, WA, to Seattle, where the Supercomputing 2011 conference was taking place. While swapping war stories with fellow simulation experts, he overheard one of his customers speaking of performing "tens of thousands of simulation runs." The number might seem extraordinary to untrained ears, but it didn't faze Imlay at all.
"Some [customers] are even talking about running hundreds of thousands of cases," he notes. |
