Virtual Basin for Simulating Ship Sailing Qualities on HPC Resources

A Virtual Basin project and some features of its implementation for High Performance Computing (HPC) are presented in this paper. There are many attempts to create virtual basin approach for ship hydrodynamic simulations over the world, and the current project is well aligned with this activity. The main features of the Virtual Basin described in this paper in contrast with the analogues are: firstly, developing a simple tool for ship designers without deep expertise in the numerical methods, and, secondly, implementing a simple access to remote HPC resources. The problems of the Virtual Basin implementation on HPC resources are shown in the example project of towing test simulation of the well-known test KCS from Gotherberg-2000 workshop.