It regularly selects machines with cutting-edge performance, to enable its personnel to conduct their studies and to develop new software suited to new architectures... Its peak performance of 667 Tflop / s* for a LINPACK* performance of 579 Tflop / s, has propelled ONERA back into the World Top 500 HPC* rankings
ONERA thus measured itself against the international state of the art in terms of precision and performance of modern CFD methods for unsteady aerodynamics:** fine multiscale turbulence, higher-order geometric representations, HPC (HighPerformance Computing) efficiency, shock / boundary layer interaction problems
But in 2010 the Onera aerodynamicists performed a simulation of stall with the elsA software using the computation resources of the GENCI (National HighPerformance Computing Facility). This type of simulation on a 3D wing was a first for Onera
The goal is to make an ultra-compact highperformance infrared camera for surveillance applications, or for piloting assistance. Compactness will allow infrared observation capabilities to be extended to systems with low payload capacity, such as drones or light vehicles
That is why Onera is working on designs for new highperformance materials, oxide- based eutectic ceramics. "We are really looking for great things from this family of materials", emphasized Michel Parlier
The innovation lies in the possibility of producing light parts with high mechanical performance, at rates compatible with the requirements of automobile production. PSA Peugeot Citroën is a partner
