Robin Knowles – The Beginner’s Guide to OpenFOAM on AWS

The Beginner’s Guide to OpenFOAM on AWS
How to A Productive, Low-Cost Business Model-efficient OpenFOAM Workflow in the AWS Cloud
Are you running out of compute power?
If you’re an OpenFOAM user who’s reached the limit of their local compute power, then this course is designed just for you. It’ll take you from first contact – AWSAll the way through to Owning your business OpenFOAM Cloud jobs It’s a quick-You can start by doing this. to You can offload some or all of your OpenFOAM jobs to the cloud – productively and cost-effectively.
You might be in need to run bigger CFD models & your local machines just aren’t up to The job?
Perhaps you need to More CFD models can be run without resorting to managing a long & complex job queue?
Are you “borrowing” your colleagues’ machines to run jobs overnight – but they’re still running when they get in the next morning?
Are your CAD workstations always connected?-up – running OpenFOAM Are you looking for work?
If you’re looking to do more – OpenFOAM?,?out having to You can buy more power and then offload your simulations to The AWS cloud might well be the answer you’ve been looking for.
Can you really run an? OpenFOAM workload on AWS?You’ve probably heard of people who manage all kinds of work. “in the cloud” Many of them, being hosted by the largest cloud provider, are in operation on AWS. But is AWS It is a viable alternative to Are you interested in buying CFD hardware specifically? Can you really run OpenFOAM Simulations that work efficiently and are cost-effective-Effectively on AWS?
Short answer — Absolutely.
Longer answer — That’s exactly what I’ve been doing since I started CFD Engine in 2012.
I don’t have any CFD hardware other than a MacBook Pro and have amassed almost 6,500 hours of CFD activity in the past 12 months.-Months alone (the cost reporting only goes back twelve).-months – I wonder what my all-time total is?).
That said, it’s not that easy to get up & running – the right way – all on Your own. There are many gotchas out there to It’s possible to be caught out. As you can see, my $2,039.52 invoice (for a single month’s usage) shows that it’s possible to get it expensively wrong when you don’t know what you’re doing.
A big ol’ AWS You don’t need one of these bills
Flattening AWS Learning curve
AWS is HUGE – in terms of both it’s market share, and it’s ever-An ever-growing list of features and services. It’s almost impossible to Keep on top of it all and it’s pretty intimidating at first contact.
You may have signed up for an Account, but you didn’t see it.-ending list of services & immediately logged out?
Or maybe you’re worried that you’ll do something wrong and rack-Create your own MONSTER invoice?
Are you using the free tier? to test things it out – but at the expense of not getting any real simulation work done?
Maybe you’ve taken a few tentative steps but you’re starting to You get the feeling that you might have a better approach?