HPC simulation & virtual reality

Simulation and virtual reality

Simulation is part of what is becoming known as transversal technologies. Consequently, we are developing simulation programs for a wide variety of sectors: aeronautics, space, energy, defense, automobiles, meteorology, and risk management linked to catastrophes, whether natural, accidental or related
to terrorist acts...



CS catalog covers four major skills

Simulation and virtual reality
• high-performance simulation,
• scientific engineering including at the same time development of scientific applications and engineering applications, that is studies,
• virtual reality with technologies for high-performance visualization and technico-operational simulation*,
• sales of software products in addition to training and operations simulators.



Challenges

• combine the most advanced techniques in numerical simulation and virtual reality in order to be among the first to offer our customers effective virtual systems as decision aids;
• be consistently relevant in integrating advanced simulation technologies at best cost and at the best level
of the state-of-the-art across the entire catalog for our Critical Systems business in order to bring our customers solutions that make a real difference in the marketplace;
• take responsibility, in terms of business development, for contract supervision regarding complex systems in the energy sector, calling for integration of new data processing technologies, simulation techniques, product lifecycle management, command and control, and visualization.

Simulation and virtual reality
*Predictive numerical simulation reproduces system functions using equations that describe the system. This is called scientific numerical simulation (i.e. in computer sciences) when equations are solved to describe physical behaviors (a knowledge model).
Direct numerical simulation imitates the behavior of a system, thanks to an algorithm inspired from its properties. In this case, no preexisting theory is available or allowed to explain the behavior of the system studied. Technico-operational simulation, which generally uses computer-assisted direct simulation, nowadays, mixes more and more often techniques from both predictive and direct numerical simulation.