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Computation Power Svašek Hydraulics exceeds 1 Tera FLOP - (November 2008) |
With the purchase of the latest multi processor machine our computer cluster now consists of 20 cluster machines (118 cores) with a
theoretical peak performance of 1,15 TFLOPS (more than 1 trillion (1012) computations per second). Explanation FLOPS (Wikipedia)
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Presentation of Katwijk Marina - (October 2008) |
On Monday 20 October Svašek Hydraulics and her partners Aannemingsbedrijf Van der Poel Terneuzen, FUNDEX and ARCAS Europe have
presented the Katwijk Marina Masterplan. Read more (in Dutch)
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Prolongation ISO 9001:2000 Certificate - (October 2008) |
Svašek Hydraulics has (again) been approved by Lloyds's Register Quality Assurance to the
Quality Management System Standards NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2000. View certificate.
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Svašek Hydraulics provides current forecasts to the Dutch Paralympic Sailing Team - (September 2008) |
After the successful support of the Dutch Olympic sailing team (a silver medal for the 470 and a silver medal for the Yngling) Svašek Hydraulics will provide accurate current predictions for the Olympic competition area during the Paralympics. The paralympic sailor Thierry Schmitter and his coach Ronald van Vianen represent The Netherlands in the 2.4mR class.
To read Thierry’s weblog click here.
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Svašek Hydraulics provides current forecasts to the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team - (June 2008) |
National coach Jaap Zielhuis of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team: "We pull out all the stops to give our sailors the best possible preparation for the Olympic Games and to achieve a record performance. The current patterns provided by Svašek Hydraulics are very useful. We are very impressed of the accuracy of the current forecasts."
Read more.
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Svašek Hydraulics presents report to municipalty of Zijpe - (March 2008) |
The municipalty of Zijpe, The Netherlands, has asked Svašek Hydraulics to perform a study into
the morphology of the Noord-Holland coast, focussing on the feasibility of a sand-based solution for the 'weak link' Hondsbossche en Pettemer Zeewering. The report is available at www.zijpe.nl.
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Oceanwide database on wave climate now for 11 years - (February 2008) |
The hindcast database of wind and wave conditions generated by the NOAA Wave Watch
III model is now available for 11 years (Februay 1997 - January 2008).
For details on the NOAA model and the world wide database go to www.worldwavedata.com.
Forecasts by the NOAA model for the coming days are available for free. See our home
page for e-mail service (no ads or spam!).
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AIS Departure Queen Victoria from Port of Rotterdam - (December 2007) |
AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a worldwide used transponder system for shipping traffic. Svašek Hydraulics uses this
system to monitor ship movements. View AIS departure Queen Victoria from Port of Rotterdam.
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30 years at Svašek Hydraulics - (September 2007) |
September 20th, 1977 was his first day at Svašek Hydraulics. On same day in 2007 Bram Bliek
celebrated his 30th anniversary. He started as a junior engineer, just graduated at Delft
University. Heading the morphology team during construction of the Eastern Scheldt storm surge
barrier was a major task during the first years. For Bram, 30 years at Svašek stand for 30
years of living with water and sediment. In 1984 he became the managing director and since
2003 he is also the chairman at Svašek Hydraulics.
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Multi processor 'cluster' computer upgrade - (April 2007) |
Svašek Hydraulics has upgraded its computing capacity by expanding the in house multi processor machine
by a series of 64 bits processors: a 4 x dual-core Opteron 885 (16 GB memory). The cluster machine is used both in parallel and in sequential
mode for heavy hydrodynamic and morphodynamic computations. The upgrade of its cluster machine is the
fourth in a line since Svašek Hydraulics started in house parallel computing in 2000.
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Battjes-award MSc graduation Lynyrd de Wit - (January 2007) |
Lynyrd de Wit, employee at Svašek Hydraulics, has received the Battjes-award
for best water graduate in 2006 at the faculty Civil Engineering of the
TU-Delft. During graduation a 2D lagrangian SPH computer-code has been
developed. SPH was found to be capable to accurately simulate difficult free
surface problems like a dam break, breaking waves and the water jet over a
sharp weir. For more information about SPH click here.
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