Siemens PLM Software NX on the Rescale cloud simulation platform Providing a cost-effective, scalable, on-demand finite element solution

Benefits Summary NX Nastran on the Rescale platform • Bring products to market Siemens PLM Software’s NX™ Nastran® Nastran has been an industry-standard FE sooner by scaling up software, a leading finite element (FE) solver for over 40 years, known and trusted simulation usage solver used across the globe by manufac- for its strength in stress, vibration, dynam- turers and engineering service providers in ics and other types of analyses. NX Nastran • Increase innovation and automotive, aerospace, machinery, elec- is used extensively by manufacturers and product quality with more tronics, energy and other industries, is now engineering suppliers in a wide range of thorough design studies available on Rescale, an on-demand, industries. Siemens PLM Software has part- • Optimize the mix between dynamically scalable cloud-simulation plat- nered with Rescale to make NX Nastran capital cost and operational form. The solution integrates on-demand, available in a cloud environment so users expense for HPC needs high-performance computing (HPC) hard- around the globe now have easier access to ware with the industry’s leading finite this simulation solution. • Achieve faster time-to-value element analysis (FEA) software. Engineers with rapid deployment Rescale was founded in 2011 and has can seamlessly customize compute capacity using minimal effort grown rapidly to become a leading cloud- based on individual simulation require- simulation provider, offering an integrated • Deliver scalable access to ments so they can perform virtual product solution that combines simulation software the premium finite element simulations. with customizable hardware infrastructure solver

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for companies to perform scientific and power of NX Nastran. NX Nastran is avail- engineering simulations. Rescale serves able on the Rescale platform under two both large enterprises and small-to- different licensing models: customers can medium-sized businesses in a diverse range choose between a platform-as-a-service of industries, including aerospace, automo- (PaaS) option or a software-as-a-service tive, life sciences and energy. (SaaS) option. Using NX Nastran on Rescale is very Under the PaaS model, also known as straightforward and intuitive. The user has bring-your-own-license (BYOL), customers to simply login to the Rescale platform can purchase a license from Siemens PLM using a standard web browser, select the Software as they would with a traditional desired hardware configuration, upload the software license model, and then use that input deck and specify the solver. Input license in conjunction with the NX Nastran decks may be prepared using NX™ CAE software that has been deployed on the software, ™ software or any other Rescale platform. Companies may opt for preprocessor that can be used to write NX the BYOL model when they wish to own Nastran decks. Rescale performs a check on the licenses, but not the hardware to run the input parameters and then provisions simulations. They could also use this model the cluster for the computation step. with licenses that exist on the premises to During the course of the simulation, users augment in-house hardware with high- are able to monitor the status of the job in powered machines that are used only as real time and view output files on the plat- needed. form while the job is running. After the job Under the SaaS model, a company can pur- has been completed, the user downloads chase usage via a subscription or a per-run the output files to their local machine for per-hour usage model. Both the license and postprocessing. the software are provided by Rescale along NX Nastran solutions on Rescale with a choice of hardware configurations to Customers that are using Rescale can pick run the simulations. The SaaS model may between two NX Nastran license bundles. be preferred by companies that wish to The basic bundle provides the most com- minimize upfront costs associated with pur- mon workflows for linear static and normal chasing software and hardware. This modes analyses as well as steady state and offering enables companies to treat their transient heat transfer and basic nonlinear investment in NX Nastran as an operational analysis. Shared-memory processing can be expense, which may offer some business enabled to speed up runs. benefits. This model is also attractive when companies have varying demand since they An advanced bundle adds certain capabili- can easily scale usage up or down. ties over and beyond the basic bundle, including: dynamic response, customiza- The described purchase options for the tion with Direct Matrix Abstraction Program PaaS and SaaS models refer to software Shown is an automotive NVH model (DMAP), superelement support, aeroelastic- usage. In addition, Rescale charges for prepared for solving on the Rescale ity and multi-step nonlinear solutions. hardware usage on a price per-core per- platform. Additionally, users can benefit from distrib- hour basis. uted memory processing, which provides a Platform scalability high degree of scalability; for example, NX Nastran on the cloud provides compa- scalability up to 512 processors for modal nies with on-demand scalability for its FE solutions. solutions. Customers can quickly scale up Flexible licensing models compute capacity to fulfill short-term needs NX Nastran on the Rescale platform intro- for more licenses; for example, to investi- duces new licensing and deployment gate an urgent warranty issue. So a models for customers wishing to access the company can size its in-house NX

infrastructure and license counts for a nor- cost per-run per-hour decreases as more mal workload and then augment those runs are executed. resources with on-demand, cloud-based The Rescale DOE option automates the pro- resources. Some companies may choose to cess of running a model with many perform only the most urgent or demand- property variations so engineering teams ing computations in the cloud. In other can develop more robust designs. Rescale cases, if usage patterns do not justify inter- automates the submittal process of varying nal infrastructure investments, companies the input files and launching the multiple may choose to run all their NX Nastran sim- runs. Once the DOE runs are complete, the ulations in a cloud environment. user can preview and plot the results in the To support these different needs, Rescale browser window prior to downloading the has tiered levels of hardware, including output data for further postprocessing. very high-end machines with large memory Monte Carlo DOE results for a satel- and large disk space. At the high end of the lite dish showing large variation in spectrum, customers can access over displacement response at one loca- tion indicated by the yellow circles. 10,000 cores that enable even the largest of models to be solved efficiently. Rescale’s file transfer system can also be used to effi- ciently upload or download files larger than 100 gigabytes (GB), and has been tested on files as large as 2 terabytes (TB). Platform security Maintaining data security is an important consideration for every company that is DOE results can be previewed in the browser prior contemplating investing in a cloud-based to downloading result files. solution. Rescale has built proprietary, best- in-class security features into its platform. Getting started Customer data is encrypted end-to-end and If you want to use NX Nastran with the jobs are run on private, closed clusters. SaaS model, you can start today by going Contact Siemens Industry Software Information technology (IT) administrators to the Rescale website at www.rescale.com and signing up for an account. Rescale Americas +1 314 264 8499 can manage access and security controls at Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 every level of the organization. In addition, offers a free trial set of hours to test its Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 Rescale is compliant end-to-end with the platform so you can find the workflow International Traffic in Arms Regulations that’s best for you before using it in produc- www.siemens.com/plm (ITAR) and Service Organization Controls tion mode. (SOC 2) compliance requirements. © 2014 Siemens Product Lifecycle If you want to use NX Nastran with the Management Software Inc. Siemens Design of experiments PaaS model, you can contact your Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered Design of experiments (DOE) simulations PLM Software account executive to pur- trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, are a very useful methodology for under- chase the NX Nastran licenses. If you Femap, Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, NX, , Quality standing product performance when there already have licenses that you want to use, you can work with Rescale to enable access Planning Environment, , is variability so you can design products to Syncrofit, Teamcenter and be more robust to parameter variations. to those licenses. are trademarks or regis- Traditional licensing models often make it Regardless of which option you choose, we tered trademarks of Siemens Product challenging to run DOE simulations due to recommend that you inform your Siemens Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States the large number of licenses that are PLM Software account manager so that we needed for parallel runs to be executed. On and in other countries. All other can provide any needed support. logos, trademarks, registered trade- Rescale, NX Nastran runs used as part of a marks or service marks belong to DOE solution are solved using parallel pric- their respective holders. ing, but are volume discounted so that the 41395-Y6 6 /14 B