New Cloud Based Solutions for a Light Aircraft SME Manufacturer. Matej Andrejašič, Žiga Povalej & Daniel Vladušič Pipistrel d.o.o. & XLAB d.o.o.

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1 New Cloud Based Solutions for a Light Aircraft SME Manufacturer Matej Andrejašič, Žiga Povalej & Daniel Vladušič Pipistrel d.o.o. & XLAB d.o.o.

2 Contents of the talk Who are we? What s the itch we re scratching? How? Benefits?

3 Pipistrel & XLAB SMEs based in Slovenia Pipistrel leading light aircraft manufacturer XLAB one of the leading ICT research SMEs in Slovenia Pipistrel: Winner of NASA Centennial challenges in 2007 and 2008 Winner of NASA Green flight challenge sponsored by Google in 2011 Winner of the UKTI Award for innovation at the 2010 European Business Award Winner of the IDC Innovation Excellence Award in the field of HPC in 2014 XLAB: Top 3 of EuroCloud Europe Award 2011 (ISL Online) Winner of NASA World Wind Europa Challenge Award 2013 (Gaea+) Winner of EENA Award 2014 (SmartLocator) Winner of EuroCloud Slovenia Award 2015 (SmartLocator)

4 FORTISSIMO Team Enabling Manufacturing SMEs to benefit from High Performance, Computer-based Simulations

5 The FORTISSIMO project Project factsheet VISION: The Fortissimo Marketplace a one-stop shop access to advanced simulation with demonstration of a viable and sustainable commercial ecosystem. MISSION: To provide SMEs with easy and cost-effective access to advanced simulation services through Cloud infrastructure consisting of HPC resources, software applications, expertise, and tools. Programme: FP NMP-ICT-FOF Grant Nr Funding: EC Contrib. ~ 16 MEUR

6 MIKELANGELO Team ONE technology stack UNIFIED for HPC and Cloud

7 The MIKELANGELO project Project factsheet VISION: Significantly improved responsiveness, agility and security of virtual infrastructure through packaged applications, using lean guest operating system OSv and superfast hypervisor skvm. MISSION: To provide cloud community with technologies for fast, agile and secure Cloud and application deployments in diverse hardware environments. Programme: H2020 ICT Grant Nr Funding: EC Contrib. ~ 6 MEUR

8 The itch (that needs scratching) Pipistrel needs on-demand resources to increase fidelity of the airflow simulations Requirements: Resources cheap to use Fast to spin-up Self-service Remote visualization OpenFOAM support Supporting different modes MPI and EP

9 The FORTISSIMO approach Cloud-based Simulation of Aerodynamics of Light Aircraft Partners: End User: Pipistrel HPC Expert: XLAB HPC Provider: Arctur Experiment: OpenFOAM Laminar-turbulent transition modeling (RANS + k-k L -omega turbulence model) Complete Panthera aircraft at cruise speed (Re = 5.7e6)

10 The FORTISSIMO approach 12 times larger mesh 17 times thinner layers 23 times larger number of computing cores 1.5 times larger computing time

11 The MIKELANGELO approach 2 different use cases, running on MIKELANGELO stack: the MPI and EP use-case OpenFOAM packaged as OSv module High-performance virtualized approach KVM - #1 Type 2 hypervisor; Built into Linux kernel. Full virtualization. Open source. Extensible. OSv Cloud OS. POSIX compliant. Light footprint. Very fast, boots under 1 second. Open source. Extensible.

12 The MIKELANGELO approach EP use-case (parameter exploration)

13 The MIKELANGELO approach Larger UC

14 MIKELANGELO New APIs Sneak peek Transaction performance improvements (Image & Heading)

15 Financial and Execution benefits Pay-per use Cloud and Cloud-based HPC simulations 10 times cheaper compared to a suitably powerful in-house system Estimate the time and the cost of Cloud and Cloud-based HPC usage Learn how to handle, run and post-process very demanding simulations Gain considerable experience in Cloud and Cloud-based HPC applications Very valuable during a design phase of a future aircraft: accelerates the design phase reduces the number of the design cycles

16 Thank You Matej Andrejašič, Žiga Povalej & Daniel Vladušič Pipistrel d.o.o. ( & XLAB d.o.o. (