This is the fifth instalment in a series of blogs I’ve written summarising run times for 2D simulations conducted on PC hardware and NVIDIA GPU cards. The first was in December 2012, I then followed up with a second in September 2016, a third in June 2017 and a fourth in November 2017. Each blog shows how InfoWorks ICM has been designed to leverage technological improvements as soon as new hardware platforms and new GPU cards come onto the market and how rapidly GPU technology changes.
The tables below give simulation runtimes for two of our standard 2D testing models that were run on two high-end Intel Xeon Servers, one fitted with an NVidia Quadro GP100 GPU card and the other fitted with an NVidia TESLA P100 GPU card. Continue reading
It’s no secret, the water industry is poised to undergo a profound evolution. The advancement of internet of things (IoT) applications to the water industry with smart sensors, field telemetry, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) has provided an unprecedented amount of information in the form of big data to water systems managers.
There’s no shortage of modeling packages available to calculate flooding depths. But what if you need to model 1D infrastructure and 2D surface flooding? Freely available 2D analysis tools can take hours, or days, to run complex rainfall scenarios and don’t have the capability to accurately portray constructed flood catchments. And in an age when engineers have to do more within the same amount of time to stay ahead, analysis time is critical.
Excel spreadsheets, hand calculations, or simple calculator utilities have long been trusted tools used by engineers to forecast road inundation due to runoff and how well storm inlets will work. But are they the most effective tools available? Even more, flow paths can be complex and difficult to accurately forecast with manual tools or calculations.
The purpose of this post is to provide users who plan to use or currently use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle databases for InfoNet and/or InfoWorks ICM with the resources they need to initially create and/or update their database to a new version.
That’s pretty unusual. Ducks, coots, Canada Geese certainly, even the occasional spaniel, but relatively few people swim in the Thames. Anyone who’s been watching the BBC documentary, 
