This page details the technology we use to deliver the best experience for our users. SPARSELAB is built using the very latest cutting edge technology to create a very cost-effective, fast, stable and responsive experience.
WebAssembly is a new type of portable binary code that modern web browsers can execute, enabling high-performance web applications. It is a low-level assembly-like language that runs with near-native performance and provides many different programming languages with a compilation target so that they can run inside of a web browser.
Our core engine, which is responsible for meshing, solving and post-processing, is written using a small high-performance subset of the C++ programming language. Our modelling engine is compiled to WebAssembly and executed by your web browser with near-native performance. Current implementations of WebAssmebly use a 32-bit virtual address space, enforcing a theoretical limit of approximately 4GB of memory.
There is a proposal for WebAssembly with a 64-bit virtual address space. SPARSELAB plans to support wasm64 once implemented by most modern web browsers. This will allow us to significantly increase the size of projects that you can load in your web browser.
Our cloud infrastructure utilizes powerful Amazon AWS instances for both meshing and solving. The resulting meshes and simulation results are stored on AWS S3 cloud storage.
With our standard plan, you pay only for the resources you consume with no minimum payment. Our intelligent estimator uses machine learning to predict the total running time and peak memory utilization of your simulations, allowing us to automatically select the appropriate hardware.
Meshing involves generating a set of connected convex polyhedrons that approximate the geometry of a model. SPARSELAB support multiple meshing algorithms, each providing a different balance of performance and robustness. This allows users to select the most suitable meshing algorithm for their geometry.
We provide additional mesh optimization and adaptation capabilities. These tools help users to improve the quality of their meshes and ensure their suitability for simulation.
Our responsive and intuitive UI was designed around reactivity. The user interface dynamically responds to project changes automatically. Real-time rendering is achieved using WebGL. With these technologies we are able to efficiently manipulate large finite element analysis projects directly inside the browser.
The SLAB file format is our packaged format for finite element analysis projects. A SLAB package is an emulation of a ZIP file with the following content:
Some of the benefits of the SLAB format include:
Our highly-optimized solvers are written in a subset of the C++ programming language and leverage multi-threading, enabling full utilization of the most powerful cloud compute hardware available. We use efficient sparse methods to solve finite element analysis problems involving millions of degrees of freedom.
The cloud-based software is specifically engineered and rigorously tested to efficiently handle meshes containing millions of elements, frequently returning results to users within seconds.