Basque Firm DMP to provide landing gear for Airbus and Boeing

Basque firm DMP announced yesterday that

they would become the "single supplier for the suspension of the three most important programs and volume for the French manufacturer, such as the Boeing 787, A350 and A330 and A340, which share a common train".

We also heard in October that:

"The Spanish company Desarrollos Mecánicos de Precisión (DMP) has signed a contract to produce the shock absorbers for the new Airbus A350 passenger plane."

The engineering department uses:

Computer assisted design (Catia V5, Unigraphics, AutoCAD, etc.). Finite element calculation & simulation (Nastran, Patran & Dytran). Process engineering & CNC programming assisted by CAM systems (Powermill, Unigraphics, etc.). Technical document management, configuration management. Personnel skilled in the development of aeronautical processes. Certification in special processes.

Ikerlan and Simulation

The IKERLAN Technology research centre is a private non-profit making entity with a public service vocation, created in 1974 at the initiative of a group of companies and entities which today form part of the MONDRAGON Corporation.

Within their extensive and excel career we can identify at least the use of CFD simulation softwares for the Microsystems laboratory. Concretely the following softwares:

Design and simulation: Multiphysics finite elements simulation with:

• Ansys Multiphysics.
• CFD-ACE+
• Fluid simulation with Fluent.
• Optical simulation with Alcatel OlympiOs
• Mask design with Alcatel Odin.
• Encapsulation design with ProEngineer.

The following video explains and shows the centre, and it is in English.

Perhaps more computing resources, coordinated would let them scale and do fine grain simulations, and obtain more accurate resources. But for that we need to coordinate our computing resources.

Challenges in fluid mechanics and scientific computing in industry (Conference)

This conference will be held at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, and it covers exactly the topics I think HPC should cover in the Basque Country.

BCAM -the initials of the center- is making until now the right thing: it is nonsense to buy hardware to the americans and say that you make computational science when you still got a group to scientist to hire. It is more about the science in the applications we will develop and how this apply to our or other industries we could sell to.

From my point of view this is a good and more than welcome fresh start: it is very well addressed and no computer scientist should ignore this center: it is a good start to build -in parallel- a basque strategy in computer architecture, systems and data centre research (and business development).

Perhaps late, but sure thing.