Model Size Challenge to Analysis Software

Existing analysis software, commonly used in scientific, engineering and business, is not designed for today and tomorrow´s model sizes. Most software has been developed decades before multi-threads, multi-cores, heterogeneous systems. In computer-aided engineering (CAE), some of the codes date back to the 50s and 60s aimed at model sizes of around 100 elements. They have been enhanced and developed for each generation of computing systems. Today, model sizes of million plus elements are common in business such as manufacturing. The need for accuracy and detail are driving model size from millions to billions to trillions and beyond. Can these analysis codes and supporting tools keep up with the progress or not? If not, what are the alternatives? In this presentation we investigate this challenge for software components as ´Black-Box´ situation.