Altair® EDEM™ 2022.3 is now available from the Altair Marketplace. This release represents the culmination of the effort to provide full alignment between our CPU and GPU solvers, allowing EDEM users to benefit from a great GPU performance with all EDEM capabilities enabled. This, in addition to new capabilities to reduce the simulation footprint for users completing large simulations in the Cloud offering a significant reduction in cost for users, and a new post-processing analysis to calculate intra-particle spray coating algorithm that allows analysing of coating distribution within polyhedral particles for different scenarios without re-running the simulations. The last one is particularly useful in Pharma for tablet coating analysis.

Closing the Gap with the CUDA GPU Solver

The performance increase of the multi-GPU CUDA solver has been an incredible advancement for EDEM. For design engineers, time to insight and time to market are critical factors for the manufacturing industry, and when it comes to granular material simulation EDEM continues to lead the way by delivering top-level performance with our lightning-fast multi-GPU solver for all our particle shapes using the latest GPU technology.

First introduced in EDEM 2022.0, our team has been working hard to enable all capabilities already available in EDEM to work with the new solver and benefit from its high-performance boost. I am now delighted to announce that with EDEM 2022.3, we have finalised the alignment of the CPU & GPU solvers with all capabilities now enabled for the multi-GPU CUDA solvers.

Volume Packing

The last capability enabled for multi-GPU. It improves performance dramatically when generating large particle beds for agriculture and off-road vehicle applications.

EDEM's Volume Packing is designed to deliver much higher particle packing density than the standard factory with all the power of GPU technology and also has been extended to all particle types (multi-sphere, sphero-cylinder and polyhedral).