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RescaleRescale offers industry-leading software platforms and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. Rescale’s mission is to provide highly powerful simulation platforms that empower the world’s engineers, scientists, developers, and CIO and IT professionals to design innovative products, develop robust applications, and transform IT into unified, agile environments.

Founded in early 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie, Rescale has quickly become the leading simulation and HPC solution provider. Rescale is located in the heart of San Francisco and brings the latest Silicon Valley technology to customers around the world. Rescale’s team consists of industry thought leaders, computer scientists, and domain experts.

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ContentAGCAGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud 4

BoomCloud HPC Simulation Enables Boom’s Supersonic Passenger Jet to Take Off 6

pSemiAccelerating Simulations for Smartphones: Silicon on the Cloud 8

RWDIHybrid Cloud Gives RWDI the Elasticity and Capacity to Respond to Revenue-Generating Opportunities 9

OptisysDavid and Goliath: Rescale, ANSYS, and AWS Enable RF Antenna Design Startup Optisys to Disrupt Market 10

DinexDinex Reduces Time to Market of Exhaust Systems by 25% 12

Pinnacle EnginesPinnacle Engines Achieves 80% Turnaround Time Reduction 13

AGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud

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Background and ChallengeFounded in 1907, AGC is the global leader in glass, ceramic, chemicals and electronics materials manufacturing. Operating 210 companies globally, today AGC complements its core materials business with a focus on strategic industries such as mobility, electronics and life sciences. AGC is united by its forward-looking mission and vision to look beyond—to overcome new challenges—and to continuously drive innovations that improve people’s lives everywhere.

AGC turned to Rescale to both look and go beyond what can be done with traditional on-premise enterprise IT and high-performance computing (HPC) resources, by extending HPC to the cloud. The collaboration is transforming the way AGC researchers and engineers work with data, run simulations, use software—and fundamentally design innovation.

Some of AGC’s biggest challenges to date relate to workflow and how users actively work with simulation tools and data. According to AGC, sophisticated microstructure geometry designs need to be modeled from the molecular-level up to the system level. Those simulation models are very computationally-intensive and need to be performed continuously and across each step in the design and manufacturing process.

Managing complex processes and workflows is further complicated by software updates. “We use a diverse suite of applications like LAMMPS, STAR-CCM+®, and COMSOL Multiphysics® to model different types of physics. It’s difficult to keep up with all of the software installation updates and maintenance.”

Moreover, said AGC, as a global enterprise with the highest security standards and requirements, AGC needed the solution to comply with the strictest IT policies, yet also simplify how users work with data and software tools and obtain resources.

Other challenges included:• Integrating security from the on-premise facilities to the cloud. The network, architecture and identity management systems needed to accommodate a hybrid model.

• Minimizing data movement across the wide-area network (WAN) for hybrid cloud workflows.

• Software licensing needed to adhere to strict policies made by the software vendor and to accommodate IT methodologies and policies utilized by AGC.

• Accommodating complex, multi-step workflows. AGC needed to minimize disruption moving to the cloud and simplify working with data for engineers and researchers working in computer-aided engineering (CAE).

• Administration of policies, methodologies, software, an management tools needed to be supported in the cloud yet also integrate with deployed resources and methodologies for managing HPC on-premise. Ideally,

AGC wanted the system to be easier to administer—i.e., support delegating administrative power to the right people within the organization, irrespective of location, on-premise or cloud.

• Future compatibility to enable breakthrough in areas such as machine learning and deep learning: AGC needs a flexible platform for adopting new, potentially transformational technologies and software applications to unlock the benefits of machine learning and deep learning among across diverse business units.

The Rescale SolutionAGC looked to Rescale to deliver an end-to-end multi-cloud platform for enterprise big compute and HPC that integrates on-premise workflows and technologies and securely extends HPC to their cloud provider of choice. The solution simplifies, optimizes, and enables AGC to control and delegate access to cloud resources—through a single, universal, self-administering interface, the Rescale platform.

The Rescale solution includes: • End-to-end Security: From encryption to cloud, ensuring data is always protected and the right users are accessing the right data. As an example, the solution supports Single Sign On (SSO) with Microsoft Azure Active Directory services, integration with AGC Amazon’s VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), delegated administration and secure isolation of compute and storage.

• Flexible Enterprise Licensing: The Rescale platform made it possible to use both existing licenses (called Bring Your Own Licensing) through a hosted license server or On demand Licensing.

• Visualization in the Cloud: A key capability provided by Rescale is End-to-End Desktops for VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). AGC users can “remote in” and visualize data through a web browser. This saves time and WAN resources as users can analyze data sets in place without having to download or transfer any data. There’s also an option for users to use NICE Software’s DCV option to optimize visualization for 2D and 3D remote visualization.

• Hybrid Cloud Workflow Optimization: The solution is optimized and integrated to work in a hybrid cloud deployment model for the HEEDS™ and the STAR-CCM+® application packages to simplify and enable using the software packages both on-premise and in the cloud. Very little data needs to be transferred to-and-from the cloud when using the location- and data-aware APIs offered by the Rescale platform. In typical workflows, only a small amount of data needs to be transferred (under 50KB) between the on-premise and cloud facilities.

• Maximum Scalability and Flexibility for HPC: Users choose where to run their jobs, either on-premise or in the cloud. In cases where users run in the cloud, they are immediately able to obtain massive scalability for reduce time to results for simulation runs and improve accuracy and simulation quality.

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The BenefitsEngineers and researchers are now able to quickly and rapidly run simulations faster—reducing time to results with improved accuracy. AGC users process more data and adapt and refine models to adapt to new scenarios. For example, a user may need to refine meshes, or consider how certain chemicals will react, or change a turbulence model; the scenarios are endless. Moreover, users now have the flexibility to simply get the job done with the right tool, whether that be on-premise or in the cloud.

AGC uses the Rescale platform to give users the ability to create and innovate in ways never imagined. It’s now possible to understand materials structure and manufacturing process in greater detail. The research and engineering teams are adopting news ways to solve major challenges across a broad range of science. In turn, the Rescale platform enables the AGC administrative team greater control to ensure resources are allocated most optimally and to the right users.

and works directly with ISVs to continuously improve performance.

• Top Tier Support Team { The Rescale team of experts work directly with AGC users

and administrators to educate and support the platform and ensure advanced optimization workflows can take full advantage of the cloud.

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Container Ready Architecture

{ AGC envisions using containers to broadly support taking advantage of ML and DL capabilities and using their cloud provider of choice to do so. Rescale provides a container-ready architecture to take advantage of these scenarios as needed by AGC. This will also help AGC with compatibility and portability—to

utilize custom in-house codes and run those across the most optimal environment. Finally, there is a great benefit in reproducibility and the ability for AGC researchers and engineers to broadly collaborate and re-use experiments.

In summary, by using Rescale’s multi-cloud platform for enterprise big compute and HPC, AGC was able to integrate their on-premise HPC environment with the cloud provider of their choice. AGC intends to drive innovations that bring new value to communities, while also meeting the needs of customers and helping resolve the grandest challenges faced in the least amount of time possible.

What is the future of cloud computing at AGC? The cloud offers the possibility of unleashing potential.

“The potential of doing more with simulation-driven product development and streamlining manufacturing processes as a method to reduce lead time and simplify working with data.”

said Atsuto Hashimoto, the manager of Innovative Technology Research Center. In the long-term, AGC is looking forward to the possibilities: creating new innovations using simulation and machine learning.

“Rescale is making this possible.”

All Images used in this spread is credited to AGC

Benefits also include:• Getting More Accurate Results Faster

{ 3X performance speed-up compared to AGC’s in- house hardware

{ STAR-CCM+ runs went from taking 40 hours on local workstations to 10 minutes with Rescale

• On-demand Resource Allocation—that’s Controlled and Monitored in real-time

{ Single sign on (SSO) to Microsoft Azure Active Directory Services simplifies access to resources anywhere

{ Researchers enjoy the flexibility of immediately being able to run jobs in the cloud; an alternative to submitting jobs locally in a job queue, waiting for local resources to free up, on-premise.

{ Engineers enjoy the faster time-to-results and turn around time, providing insights into the product faster.

• Simplicity and Control for IT { Administrators can easily control, monitor, visualize

and delegate administration based on project or group. It’s now easy for the AGC team to control who uses what resource and to report on how those resources from storage to compute to budgets—are being consumed in real-time.

• Application Optimization { Rescale supports, ports, optimizes, and tunes business

critical applications for the cloud provider environment

“The potential of doing more with simulation-driven product development and streamlining manufacturing processes as a method to reduce lead time and simplify working with data.”

Atsuto Hashimoto, the manager of Innovative Technology Research Center.

Cloud HPC Simulation Enables Boom’s Supersonic Passenger Jet to Take Off

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Background and ChallengeBoom Supersonic is an aerospace startup that is redefining passenger air travel. They are designing a supersonic passenger jet that will take business travelers from San Francisco to Tokyo in 5.5 hours, revolutionizing business travel and revitalizing a long stagnant industry. Only a few years old, they are already backed by significant funding and have secured over 75 advance orders from airlines around the world.

Boom’s innovation comes more than 40 years after the introduction of the Concorde, an engineering marvel but an economic disappointment. Many years later, using cutting-edge simulation combined with cloud technology, Boom is setting out to accomplish what Concorde could not: a sustainable business model. Creating a technological breakthrough is not easy in the aerospace sector. It traditionally requires billions of dollars in R&D, a small army of engineering staff, extensive wind tunnel testing, and many years of development. More recently, advanced fluid-flow and mechanical stress simulation tools have reduced physical testing requirements and costs, but they require costly dedicated high performance computing (HPC) resources to be effective.

As a small startup with limited funding but outsized dreams, Boom turned to the public cloud because the upfront costs of building their own on-premise HPC cluster were cost-prohibitive. The company briefly considered developing their own software infrastructure and middleware for spinning up compute clusters on the public cloud on-demand, but the IT and software development resources required for that, too, were cost-prohibitive.

Needing immediate burst capability and pay-as-you-go compute clusters without the time and expense of setting up their own software and hardware infrastructure, Boom has run all their simulations on Rescale’s enterprise big compute platform since day one. Rescale offers Boom virtually unlimited compute capacity, while allowing them to bypass investment in internal IT capability—both incredibly valuable to an early stage startup with limited funding. In essence, Rescale enables Boom—and their technology—to get off the ground.

The Rescale SolutionBoom uses Rescale’s ScaleX® platform primarily for aerodynamic analysis of the full airplane. For example, they run simulations of supersonic inlets designed to slow incoming air to the optimum temperature, pressure, and velocity for the jet engine. They use two NASA-developed CFD software applications: Cart3D, licensed by Aerion Techologies, and Fun3D. These codes are just two of the 250+ software applications that are available natively-integrated and optimized on the ScaleX cloud platform.

Rescale provides a turnkey interface between advanced engineering software and HPC hardware in the public cloud, allowing Boom to focus on their core engineering competency without distraction from IT management tasks.

In addition to allowing Boom to forego in-house IT, Rescale further vastly simplifies IT management with the ScaleX Enterprise administration portal, which allows Boom to manage costs with budgets for projects and teams, manage teams with custom permissions for hardware and software, and manage security with features such as multi-factor authentication and single sign-on. To comply with the additional security layers required for aerospace and defense technologies by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Boom runs all their simulations on Rescale’s designated ITAR-compliant platform.

Using Rescale’s ScaleX platform, Boom runs Navier-Stokes unstructured CFD simulations of the flight envelope, especially the flight states involving vortex lift. Simulating vortices over the wing requires dense meshing, often with more than 200 million cells, and thus HPC.

Boom spins up these jobs on customized clusters in the cloud via the ScaleX platform, enabling these highly compute-intensive jobs to complete in minutes to hours, depending on their complexity. Boom often does parametric design exploration over the whole wing, allowing them to test different geometry

Boom uses CFD on Rescale to optimize the fuselage for supersonic performance. The fuselage gently tapers to reduce the rate of cross-sectional change and disturbances to the surrounding air.

Boom’s supersonic demonstrator, the XB-1, was simulated entirely on Rescale’s platform for cloud HPC.

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alternatives to achieve their design goals. Such compute-intensive simulations realistically require HPC clusters to run, and Boom is able to launch these jobs on the cloud through Rescale’s big compute platform. Cloud hardware configurations are scalable and pay-as-you-go, such that Boom can scale out their simulations and reduce run times according to budgetary and project time constraints. Boom regularly runs their simulations on 512 cores, although Rescale’s global network of cloud resources allows them to scale out much more.

The BenefitsWith Rescale, Boom has been able to revitalize a stagnant industry segment through revolutionary engineering design. Their achievement and progress to date as a lean startup operation challenges the conventional wisdom that substantial upfront capital is required to compete with industry giants such as Boeing and Airbus.

Their ability to scale their simulation on-demand and control their spending with pay-as-you-go pricing has enabled them to do the following:

• Increase simulation throughput and reduce time to market: Each Boom engineer is able to evaluate 100 design configurations at once to achieve more than 6x speedup for each job compared to a typical workstation. Parallelization of jobs improves simulation turnaround time dramatically.

• Scale the business quickly: As the company rapidly grows it is important to keep engineer onboarding time to a minimum while continuing to accelerate simulation throughput. The automation of the company’s simulation workflow and centralized data management on the Rescale ScaleX platform have been critical to reduce the learning curve for new employees.

• Eliminated IT overhead: Boom was able to bypass the development and maintenance of an in-house IT department to manage their data. Instead, they are able to focus 100% on product development.

Rescale enables Boom’s simulation engineers to scale out and parallelize their jobs on the cloud, resulting in a 600x speedup compared to a typical workstation.

Boom, which has raised over $33M, announced at the Paris Air Show in June 2017 that it has already received 76 orders from airlines and will deliver them in 2023.

“Rescale’s cloud platform is a game-changer for engineering. It gives Boom computing resources comparable to building a large on-premise HPC center. Rescale lets us move fast with minimal capital spending and resources overhead.”

Joshua Krall, Co-founder & CTO at Boom Supersonic

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Accelerating Simulations for Smartphones: Silicon on the Cloud

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Background and ChallengepSemi™, a Murata company, makes electronics smaller, thinner, faster and more integrated, and they rely on Rescale to accelerate innovation. The company transforms problems that “can’t be done” into breakthroughs in silicon and semiconductors.

The company built its reputation developing high-performance radio-frequency (RF) applications through a technology called silicon on sapphire. Today, pSemi’s product portfolio spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning, power amplifiers and integrated RF frontends. These products are then integrated into modules for smartphones, base stations, industrial, automotive, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare.

The verification process used to simulate frontend module interactions for smartphones is extremely computationally-intensive and time sensitive. pSemi depends on delivering technical solutions to its customers in predictable timeframes - and minimizing the time and complexity associated with simulation runs.

“In smartphones today there’s an antenna, a frontend, and a radio,” says Nicolas Comfoltey, Director of Product Development at pSemi. “The frontend is a signal conditioning unit that sits between the radio and outside environment to protect against signal interference.”

The complexity associated with designing and testing frontends has increased significantly over the years. “A key goal,” adds Comfoltey, “is producing this technology using the least amount of space. For example, in smartphones of a few years ago, the frontend contents consumed 80-100 millimeters² of space. Today, we take all of that [capability] and put it inside a single module that’s about 10-times smaller [than previous generations of smartphones].

Instead of having just one module, there are now 10 modules - each with the same complexity of a phone from only a few years ago. With that we have huge computational challenges.”

The process of checking and testing all of the interactions among these modules and all of the devices within each module - to verify that each works correctly - is a time-consuming process.

The Rescale SolutionpSemi chose Rescale ScaleX™ Enterprise. The Rescale platform experience gives Comfoltey’s team a turnkey approach to

delivering high-performance computing (HPC) workflows in the cloud and to run and manage simulations as a service.

Rescale’s capabilities include:

• Maximum scalability to parallelize application performance and reduce time-to-results on a per- application basis for the entire simulation.

• Simplicity: Through the ScaleX platform, it is straightforward to create workflows and launch jobs. Jobs can be assigned based on project or workflow, budget, available quota, and other factors.

• Efficiency: Match the right compute architecture to the simulation based on a number of factors, from compute capability to available budget.

• End-to-end security from encryption to cloud ensures data is always protected.

• Zero-IT footprint: In both hybrid and public cloud scenarios, no on-premise hardware is needed; the platform is offered as a service.

The Benefits“Rescale allows us to speed up those simulations and do studies we couldn’t do before,” added Comfoltey. “For example, we are developing a module for a leading-edge smartphone. Originally, my engineers came to me, and they said they wanted to do a verification simulation. Those simulations were taking 7 days: 7 days is a very long time when your customer has annual cycles and expects results on a monthly basis.”

“We were able to use Rescale’s cloud platform to highly parallelize our simulations and bring the simulation time down from 7 days to 15 hours. We’ve demonstrated a 10x speed improvement on numerous occasions in our EM simulations using Rescale’s cloud platform.”

Moving forward, Comfoltey envisions moving more simulations to Rescale’s platform as a service delivery model. By treating pSemi’s high-performance computing infrastructure for simulations as a service, provided on-demand - where it just works - liberates his team to do what they do best: design innovation.

“We were able to use Rescale’s cloud platform to highly parallelize our simulations and bring the simulation time down from 7 days to 15 hours. We’ve demonstrated a 10x speed improvement on numerous occasions in our EM simulations using Rescale’s cloud platform.”

Nicolas Comfoltey, Director of Product Development at pSemi

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“Rescale was able to provide a very seamless method for us to cloud burst from our on-premises cluster without changing any behaviors of our user base. That means our user base...has the freedom to submit a job to an on-premises queue or the cloud. Whichever they choose, it’s exactly the same process for them and it’s seamless. The Rescale integration has a lot of appeal.”

Marco Accardo, Principal, Director of Information Technology, RWDI

Hybrid Cloud Gives RWDI the Elasticity and Capacity to Respond to Revenue-Generating Opportunities

Background and ChallengeRWDI is a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm specializing in the built and natural environments. They perform a wide range of engineering studies in domains including air quality, climate analytics, energy and water modeling, meteorology, structural dynamics, ventilation, and wind engineering services on some of the world’s most notable structures such as the London Millennium Bridge, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Freedom Tower on the World Trade Center site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the Taipei 101 tower, and the mega-skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building. RWDI is diversified geographically as well, with global operations spanning China, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and their corporate headquarters in Canada.

RWDI’s business is booming, and due to their success they have outgrown their on-premises HPC environment. Recently, they won a large wind speed mapping project across the Middle East. To analyze 30 years of atmospheric data across the entire region in two months, they calculated they would need a million core-hours—significantly more than their on-premises system capacity. Due to the short project timeline, expanding their on-premises HPC was not feasible. Nor was building out their own software and middleware infrastructure to be able to burst to the public cloud on their own. They needed a turnkey hybrid cloud solution to expand their existing capacity, so they compared several managed cloud services including Rescale.

RWDI chose Rescale as it offered the most seamless on-premises/cloud integration that provided the most consistent front-end user experience for their engineers, a wide variety of multi-cloud hardware including the high-performance instance types that RWDI required, and excellent customer service from the Rescale technical team.

The Rescale SolutionRWDI came to Rescale with two requirements: a frictionless user experience and fast hardware performance.

To minimize disruption to RWDI’s engineering process, Rescale set up a back-end integration with RWDI’s on-premises scheduler. To run on Rescale, engineers simply submit jobs to the cloud by adding a few simple command lines into the submit script. It is a minimal change to their existing workflow that allows engineers to dramatically increase their simulation throughput without disruption.

RWDI had specific speed and performance requirements. Choosing from a wide selection of hardware architectures from a variety of major cloud service providers and specialty supercomputing centers, Rescale advised RWDI to run on Rescale’s core type Magnesium, a high-performance architecture with high-speed interconnect.Magnesium is specifically designed to handle high performance computing workloads such as financial risk modeling, seismic and reservoir simulation, molecular modeling, and genomic research. It is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 Haswell 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz with turbo) with DDR 4 memory networked by 56 Gb/s interconnect. RWDI now runs a constant load of up to fifty-two 32-core jobs in parallel for their wind speed mapping project, for a total of more than 300,000 core-hours to date. On the back-end, RWDI’s pre-processing and post-processing are done locally, while the heavy compute step runs on Rescale.

The BenefitsWith RWDI’s hybrid cloud solution built on Rescale cloud infrastructure, RWDI has transformed their fixed, static on-premises system into an agile, elastic system that allows them to quickly respond to client opportunities and deadlines. Namely, the hybrid cloud gives them:

• The ability to take on large revenue-generating projects and meet all deadlines, regardless of project size.

• A seamless integration with their on-premises system that does not disrupt their existing engineering process.

• A wide selection of multi-cloud hardware architectures and the flexibility to tailor them to changing project needs.

• Excellent customer service from Rescale’s technical support team.

All Images used in this page is credited to RWDI

David and Goliath: Rescale, ANSYS, and AWS Enable RF Antenna Design Startup Optisys to Disrupt Market

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Background and ChallengeOptisys is a small, radiofrequency (RF) antenna design company based in Utah. Using revolutionary 3D metal printing technology and 50+ years of experience in RF engineering, Optisys specializes in 3D printing custom RF antenna solutions for military and commercial applications.

Like many RF design firms, Optisys employs ANSYS HFSS, a leading industry software, to perform electromagnetic (EM) simulations. Optisys uses the application to conduct RF simulations on 3D-printed antenna designs and predict their integrated performance. However, the company wanted to reduce the costs associated with running large, concurrent simulations. Before adopting Rescale, Optisys had their ANSYS HFSS and Mechanical licenses installed on local workstations, so that only one person was able to use them at a time at a given computer. “We have a core competency of designing and fabricating 3D-printed antennas, and we don’t want to set up an IT department, an intranet, and local systems that are outside of our core competency,” says Mike Hollenbeck, CTO and Lead Designer at Optisys. “Another pain point is that we didn’t want to buy new high-performance computers for our simulation every two to three years. It’s costly to purchase and maintain hardware—and then the hardware becomes antiquated and doesn’t scale well with problem size.”

Optisys runs a variety of model sizes, from small to large, causing another technical challenge for scaling efficiently. Because they wanted to reduce costs and gain scalability, Optisys decided to search for a cloud provider.

The Rescale SolutionOptisys ultimately decided to use the Rescale ScaleX® platform, running Amazon Web Services (AWS) hardware to run its ANSYS EM simulations. “We did a brief search, and Rescale with AWS was the best out there for running ANSYS on the cloud —absolutely the best,” says Hollenbeck.

Rescale’s seamless deployment of its ScaleX platform allows Optisys to efficiently and securely connect to instant and scalable AWS resources via an easy-to-use, web-based workflow specifically tailored to solve engineering simulation problems.

“I predominantly run optimizations on AWS with ScaleX,” says Hollenbeck. “My optimizations require dozens or hundreds of simulations to run over a set of parameters to find an optimal solution. With Rescale I can automate concurrent job submission and scale up the AWS resources to complete those simulations on time.”

Optisys is able to access a suite of ANSYS software products in current and legacy versions and take advantage of numerous AWS services without having to configure or maintain software or hardware onsite. By running their analysis on-demand with Rescale, Optisys takes advantage of Amazon EC2 Spot instances, a way to use spare Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) computing capacity at a discounted price through a bidding process. Rescale manages the bidding process entirely for their users, ensuring the lowest cost while maintaining guarantees that their job will run through completion.

When submitting a job using ScaleX, Optisys simulation data input and output are automatically uploaded securely using Amazon encryption services and stored into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets.

With ScaleX, Optisys engineers can then search simulation data efficiently and share them with coworkers as needed, avoiding data duplication and large file downloads.

The BenefitsBy using ANSYS software on AWS hardware via the Rescale platform, Optisys significantly increases its simulation capability and technical agility, allowing them to compete with much larger organizations. “With Rescale, we can scale our capabilities to the problems that we have that day,” says Hollenbeck. “Rescale

Optisys designs and simulates advanced, 3D-printed antennas without an IT department.

Exhaustive, large-scale EM simulations are conducted before a single antenna is printed.

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makes us significantly more competitive than big companies because it gives us capabilities in excess of what they have, combined with the agility of a small company, so we can make decisions a lot faster.”

Optisys not only is able to scale their simulation to the problem type, but also their cash flow. “Hardware is expensive, and simulation tools are also expensive,” says Hollenbeck. “For a fast-growing company it’s really hard to juggle your finances if you have to pay for full licenses, the hardware, and put an IT program in place. Rescale has allowed us to bypass all of that headache and cost.”

Optisys doesn’t have to amortize any upfront expenses, nor do they have to purchase hardware and software for their highest workloads and hardest problems.

The company is also now able to scale ANSYS to multiple cores on AWS, providing the opportunity to target both small and large RF projects. For larger simulation projects, the organization runs ANSYS on AWS using up to 128 cores per run and leverages AWS hardware with 8 GB memory per core.

Optisys operates with additional geographic freedom by monitoring simulation residuals on the Rescale platform. “Rescale has allowed me to travel frequently and work from

New York, Salt Lake, and visit conferences or customer sites,” says Hollenbeck. “It enables me to keep a continuous stream of simulation going so that we can meet our contractual obligations for our designs, and to innovate without any slowdown due to a hardware bottleneck.” In addition to managing simulation workflows from anywhere, Rescale alleviates headaches from licensing. According to Hollenbeck, “We are very excited to host our ANSYS licenses on the cloud. Companies spend a lot of time, effort, and money on license management systems to track license usage, but Rescale’s license hosting saved us a lot of pain and suffering and makes us a lot more efficient.”

With the ability to scale, Optisys expects to take on larger projects and continue to use ANSYS on Rescale and AWS. “Rescale is and will remain the hardware platform for Optisys as we grow. It makes total sense. There’s no reason why we would develop an IT team, a full suite of hardware, and our own license management software internally,” says Hollenbeck. “Why would we spend all that money when the Rescale platform running ANSYS on AWS allows us to be very agile, gives us all of this functionality, and provides amazing customer service?”

All Images used in this spread is credited to Optisys

“With Rescale, we can scale our capabilities to the problems that we have that day. Rescale...gives us capabilities in excess of what [big companies] have, combined with the agility of a small company, so we can make decisions a lot faster.”

Mike Hollenbeck, CTO & Co-founder at Optisys

Optisys’s advanced designs achieve antenna gain equivalent to much larger form factors.

Analyzing and visualizing beam directionality is a key quality metric.

Dinex Reduces Time to Market of Exhaust Systems by 25%

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Background and ChallengeDinex is a Danish designer and manufacturer of exhaust and emissions systems for trucks, buses, and off-road equipment with production and sales facilities in 16 countries across four continents. Their design process relies heavily on simulation of exhaust parts and subsystems, including CFD simulations of conjugate heat transfer from fluid to structure; FEA simulations of thermal stresses on thermal parts; and FEA simulations of structural static and dynamic forces. They run CFD on AVL FIRE and FEA on ANSYS Mechanical. At 4-5 million cells per model, these models are large and typically run for three weeks on their 32-core in-house server.

Dinex had a project for a Chinese truck manufacturer to design a new selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust system that would allow the manufacturer’s trucks to meet the China 5 emission standards.

The project required a very large model but also had a tight deadline. With only a few weeks to complete the project, Dinex turned to the cloud for big compute resources.

The Rescale SolutionBoom uses Rescale’s ScaleX® platform primarily for aerodynamic analysis of the full airplane. For example, they run simulations of supersonic inlets designed to slow incoming air to the optimum

temperature, pressure, and velocity for the jet engine. They use two NASA-developed CFD software applications: Cart3D, licensed by Aerion Techologies, and Fun3D. These codes are just two of the 250+ software applications that are available natively-integrated and optimized on the ScaleX cloud platform.

The BenefitsUsing Rescale’s ScaleX platform, Dinex was able to reduce the turnaround time for each optimization from four weeks to one week, equivalent to a 75% reduction in turnaround time. (Each iteration includes making design changes, generating the mesh, setting up the model on ScaleX, running it, viewing results, and making decisions).

In total, this reduced simulation time for the total project by 18 weeks.

Accelerated simulation had many material benefits to Dinex’s business, including:

• 25% reduction in time-to-market for an exhaust treatment system. The Rescale platform reduced total project time from 18 months to 13.5 months. This allowed Dinex to meet a tight deadline and exceed client expectations.

• Higher project throughput and higher revenue, resulting from their ability to take on additional projects.• More productive staffing. Simulation engineers began to work more efficiently and have greater output when the simulation bottleneck was removed. Dinex leadership plans to hire additional simulation engineers to keep up with higher simulation throughput.

• Increased marketability to customers. Their use of Rescale’s cloud solution demonstrates that Dinex is at the forefront of simulation trends, using the industry’s latest technologies to yield optimized designs in record time.

“Our higher productivity will enable us to handle more projects. The Rescale platform makes us more efficient and more attractive to our customers, which then brings us more business and more development projects.”

Kasper Steen Andersen, CAE Manager at Dinex

Dinex analyses fluid flow around exhaust header valves using CFD on Rescale.

All Images used in this page is credited to Dinex

Pinnacle Engines Achieves 80% Turnaround Time Reduction

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Background and ChallengePinnacle Engines is a game-changing engine companydeveloping and commercializing an ultra-efficient enginearchitecture. Pinnacle Engines uses Rescale to quickly run a wide variety of simulations, including the analysis of a four-stroke internal combustion engine using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool, CONVERGE by Convergent Science.

For Pinnacle Engines, designing an engine with 30-50%fuel efficiency requires many simulations, constant iterations,and the compute power to accomplish all this within projecttimelines. To meet strict deadlines while fully exploringthe design space, Pinnacle Engines uses Rescale’s cloudsimulation platform to run injector model characteristicstudies, geometrical simplification studies, and reactionmechanism reductions, among others. Each of these analysesis used to design an ultra-efficient and powerful four-strokeengine.

Running tens to hundreds of models simultaneously requiresextensive compute resources and access to a large pool ofsimulation software licenses--equating to large up-front costsand personnel investments. Even with a powerful internalprocessing cluster, the ability to run parallel jobs can besignificantly limited.

The Rescale SolutionUsing Rescale to customize their simulation resources to eachjob, Pinnacle Engines is able to:

• Dynamically provision HPC resources within five minutes of job submission

• Run tens of jobs simultaneously without having to queue for software or hardware

• Execute simulations whenever needed using both on demand Rescale hardware and CONVERGE software

• Gather results and deliver them to local servers for post processing and analysis

• Securely run proprietary simulation models with end-to end data encryption on isolated, encrypted clusters

In short, Rescale’s secure, intuitive cloud platform combinedwith on-demand CONVERGE CFD software enabled PinnacleEngines to efficiently execute 240+ simulations to improvetheir engine design and significantly shorten the design cycle.

The BenefitsUsing Rescale, Pinnacle Engines:

• Ran 240+ simulations, revealing previously undiscovered design features

• Reduced the time to results by 80% by running job in parallel with no wait time for hardware or software

• Achieved greater than 73% cost savings compared to the use of additional internal resources

• Ran jobs on an SOC 2 compliant infrastructure with industry-leading security features

Pinnacle engines uses Rescale to conduct injector model characteristic studies, geometric simplification, reaction mechanism studies, and more.

“Running jobs on Rescale allows us to reduce capital expenses while still running the simulations needed to design industry-leading engines.”

Monty Cleeves, CTO at Pinnacle Engines

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