Success with Rescale

Accelerate Innovation SUCCESS WITH RESCALE Rescale Rescale 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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Boom Cloud HPC Simulation Enables Boom’s Supersonic Passenger Jet to Take Off 6 pSemi Accelerating Simulations for Smartphones: Silicon on the Cloud 8

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

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

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

Pinnacle Engines Pinnacle Engines Achieves 80% Turnaround Time Reduction 13

3 AGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud

Background and Challenge AGC wanted the system to be easier to administer—i.e., Founded in 1907, AGC is the global leader in glass, ceramic, support delegating administrative power to the right chemicals and electronics materials manufacturing. Operating 210 people within the organization, irrespective of location, companies globally, today AGC complements its core materials on-premise or cloud. business with a focus on strategic industries such as mobility, • Future compatibility to enable breakthrough in areas electronics and life sciences. AGC is united by its forward-looking such as machine learning and deep learning: AGC needs mission and vision to look beyond—to overcome new challenges— a flexible platform for adopting new, potentially and to continuously drive innovations that improve people’s lives transformational technologies and software applications everywhere. to unlock the benefits of machine learning and deep learning among across diverse business units. AGC turned to Rescale to both look and go beyond what can be done with traditional on-premise enterprise IT and high-performance The Rescale Solution computing (HPC) resources, by extending HPC to the cloud. AGC looked to Rescale to deliver an end-to-end multi-cloud platform The collaboration is transforming the way AGC researchers and for enterprise big compute and HPC that integrates on-premise engineers work with data, run simulations, use software—and workflows and technologies and securely extends HPC to their cloud fundamentally design innovation. provider of choice. The solution simplifies, optimizes, and enables AGC to control and delegate access to cloud resources—through a Some of AGC’s biggest challenges to date relate to workflow and single, universal, self-administering interface, the Rescale platform. how users actively work with simulation tools and data. According to AGC, sophisticated microstructure geometry designs need to The Rescale solution includes: be modeled from the molecular-level up to the system level. Those • End-to-end Security: From encryption to cloud, ensuring simulation models are very computationally-intensive and need to data is always protected and the right users are be performed continuously and across each step in the design and accessing the right data. As an example, the solution manufacturing process. supports Single Sign On (SSO) with Microsoft Azure Active Directory services, integration with AGC Amazon’s Managing complex processes and workflows is further complicated VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), delegated administration and by software updates. “We use a diverse suite of applications like secure isolation of compute and storage. LAMMPS, STAR-CCM+®, and COMSOL Multiphysics® to model different types of physics. It’s difficult to keep up with all of the • Flexible Enterprise Licensing: The Rescale platform software installation updates and maintenance.” made it possible to use both existing licenses (called Bring Your Own Licensing) through a hosted license Moreover, said AGC, as a global enterprise with the highest security server or On demand Licensing. standards and requirements, AGC needed the solution to comply with the strictest IT policies, yet also simplify how users work with • Visualization in the Cloud: A key capability provided by data and software tools and obtain resources. Rescale is End-to-End Desktops for VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). AGC users can “remote in” and visualize Other challenges included: data through a web browser. This saves time and WAN • Integrating security from the on-premise facilities to the resources as users can analyze data sets in place without cloud. The network, architecture and identity having to download or transfer any data. There’s also an management systems needed to accommodate a hybrid option for users to use NICE Software’s DCV option to model. optimize visualization for 2D and 3D remote visualization. • Hybrid Cloud Workflow Optimization: The solution is • Minimizing data movement across the wide-area optimized and integrated to work in a hybrid cloud network (WAN) for hybrid cloud workflows. deployment model for the HEEDS™ and the STAR-CCM+® application packages to simplify and enable using the • Software licensing needed to adhere to strict policies software packages both on-premise and in the cloud. made by the software vendor and to accommodate IT Very little data needs to be transferred to-and-from the methodologies and policies utilized by AGC. cloud when using the location- and data-aware APIs offered by the Rescale platform. In typical workflows, only • Accommodating complex, multi-step workflows. AGC a small amount of data needs to be transferred (under needed to minimize disruption moving to the cloud and 50KB) between the on-premise and cloud facilities. simplify working with data for engineers and researchers working in computer-aided engineering (CAE). • Maximum Scalability and Flexibility for HPC: Users choose where to run their jobs, either on-premise or in • Administration of policies, methodologies, software, an the cloud. In cases where users run in the cloud, they are management tools needed to be supported in the cloud immediately able to obtain massive scalability for reduce yet also integrate with deployed resources and time to results for simulation runs and improve accuracy methodologies for managing HPC on-premise. Ideally, and simulation quality.

4 The Benefits and works directly with ISVs to continuously improve Engineers and researchers are now able to quickly and rapidly run performance. simulations faster—reducing time to results with improved accuracy. AGC users process more data and adapt and refine models to adapt • Top Tier Support Team to new scenarios. For example, a user may need to refine meshes, {{ The Rescale team of experts work directly with AGC users or consider how certain chemicals will react, or change a turbulence and administrators to educate and support the platform model; the scenarios are endless. Moreover, users now have the and ensure advanced optimization workflows can take full flexibility to simply get the job done with the right tool, whether that advantage of the cloud. be on-premise or in the cloud. • Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Container Ready AGC uses the Rescale platform to give users the ability to create and Architecture innovate in ways never imagined. It’s now possible to understand {{ AGC envisions using containers to broadly support materials structure and manufacturing process in greater detail. taking advantage of ML and DL capabilities and using The research and engineering teams are adopting news ways to their cloud provider of choice to do so. Rescale solve major challenges across a broad range of science. In turn, provides a container-ready architecture to take the Rescale platform enables the AGC administrative team greater advantage of these scenarios as needed by AGC. This control to ensure resources are allocated most optimally and to the will also help AGC with compatibility and portability—to right users.

“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.

Benefits also include: utilize custom in-house codes and run those across the • Getting More Accurate Results Faster most optimal environment. Finally, there is a great {{ 3X performance speed-up compared to AGC’s in- benefit in reproducibility and the ability for AGC house hardware researchers and engineers to broadly collaborate and {{ STAR-CCM+ runs went from taking 40 hours on local re-use experiments. workstations to 10 minutes with Rescale In summary, by using Rescale’s multi-cloud platform for enterprise • On-demand Resource Allocation—that’s Controlled and big compute and HPC, AGC was able to integrate their on-premise Monitored in real-time HPC environment with the cloud provider of their choice. AGC {{ Single sign on (SSO) to Microsoft Azure Active intends to drive innovations that bring new value to communities, Directory Services simplifies access to resources while also meeting the needs of customers and helping resolve anywhere the grandest challenges faced in the least amount of time {{ Researchers enjoy the flexibility of immediately being possible. able to run jobs in the cloud; an alternative to submitting jobs locally in a job queue, waiting for local What is the future of cloud computing at AGC? The cloud offers resources to free up, on-premise. the possibility of unleashing potential. {{ Engineers enjoy the faster time-to-results and turn around time, providing insights into the product faster. “The potential of doing more with simulation-driven product • Simplicity and Control for IT development and streamlining manufacturing processes as a {{ Administrators can easily control, monitor, visualize method to reduce lead time and simplify working with data.” and delegate administration based on project or group. It’s now easy for the AGC team to control who said Atsuto Hashimoto, the manager of Innovative Technology uses what resource and to report on how those Research Center. In the long-term, AGC is looking forward to resources from storage to compute to budgets—are the possibilities: creating new innovations using simulation and being consumed in real-time. machine learning.

• Application Optimization “Rescale is making this possible.” {{ Rescale supports, ports, optimizes, and tunes business critical applications for the cloud provider environment

All Images used in this spread is credited to AGC 5 Cloud HPC Simulation Enables Boom’s Supersonic Passenger Jet to Take Off

Background and Challenge The Rescale Solution Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup that is redefining Boom uses Rescale’s ScaleX® platform primarily for aerodynamic passenger air travel. They are designing a supersonic passenger analysis of the full airplane. For example, they run simulations of jet that will take business travelers from San Francisco to Tokyo in supersonic inlets designed to slow incoming air to the optimum 5.5 hours, revolutionizing business travel and revitalizing a long temperature, pressure, and velocity for the jet engine. They stagnant industry. Only a few years old, they are already backed use two NASA-developed CFD software applications: Cart3D, by significant funding and have secured over 75 advance orders licensed by Aerion Techologies, and Fun3D. These codes are from airlines around the world. just two of the 250+ software applications that are available natively-integrated and optimized on the ScaleX cloud platform. 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. Boom uses CFD on Rescale to optimize the fuselage for supersonic As a small startup with limited funding but outsized dreams, performance. The fuselage gently tapers to reduce the rate of cross-sectional Boom turned to the public cloud because the upfront costs of change and disturbances to the surrounding air. building their own on-premise HPC cluster were cost-prohibitive. The company briefly considered developing their own software Rescale provides a turnkey interface between advanced infrastructure and middleware for spinning up compute clusters engineering software and HPC hardware in the public cloud, on the public cloud on-demand, but the IT and software allowing Boom to focus on their core engineering competency development resources required for that, too, were cost- without distraction from IT management tasks. prohibitive. 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. Boom’s supersonic demonstrator, the XB-1, was simulated entirely on Rescale’s platform for cloud HPC. Using Rescale’s ScaleX platform, Boom runs Navier-Stokes unstructured CFD simulations of the flight envelope, especially Needing immediate burst capability and pay-as-you-go compute the flight states involving vortex lift. Simulating vortices over the clusters without the time and expense of setting up their own wing requires dense meshing, often with more than 200 million software and hardware infrastructure, Boom has run all their cells, and thus HPC. simulations on Rescale’s enterprise big compute platform since day one. Rescale offers Boom virtually unlimited compute Boom spins up these jobs on customized clusters in the cloud capacity, while allowing them to bypass investment in internal IT via the ScaleX platform, enabling these highly compute-intensive capability—both incredibly valuable to an early stage startup with jobs to complete in minutes to hours, depending on their limited funding. In essence, Rescale enables Boom—and their complexity. Boom often does parametric design exploration technology—to get off the ground. over the whole wing, allowing them to test different geometry

6 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 Benefits With Rescale, Boom has been able to revitalize a stagnant industry segment through revolutionary engineering design. Boom, which has raised over $33M, announced at the Paris Air Show in June Their achievement and progress to date as a lean startup 2017 that it has already received 76 orders from airlines and will deliver them operation challenges the conventional wisdom that substantial in 2023. upfront capital is required to compete with industry giants such as Boeing and Airbus.

“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

Their ability to scale their simulation on-demand and control their • Scale the business quickly: As the company rapidly spending with pay-as-you-go pricing has enabled them to do the grows it is important to keep engineer onboarding time following: to a minimum while continuing to accelerate simulation throughput. The automation of the company’s simulation • Increase simulation throughput and reduce time to workflow and centralized data management on the market: Each Boom engineer is able to evaluate 100 Rescale ScaleX platform have been critical to reduce the design configurations at once to achieve more than 6x learning curve for new employees. speedup for each job compared to a typical workstation. Parallelization of jobs improves simulation turnaround • Eliminated IT overhead: Boom was able to bypass time dramatically. 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.

All Images used in this spread is credited to Boom Supersonic 7 Accelerating Simulations for Smartphones: Silicon on the Cloud

Background and Challenge delivering high-performance computing (HPC) workflows in the pSemi™, a Murata company, makes electronics smaller, cloud and to run and manage simulations as a service. thinner, faster and more integrated, and they rely on Rescale to accelerate innovation. The company transforms problems Rescale’s capabilities include: that “can’t be done” into breakthroughs in silicon and semiconductors. • Maximum scalability to parallelize application performance and reduce time-to-results on a per- The company built its reputation developing high-performance application basis for the entire simulation. radio-frequency (RF) applications through a technology called silicon on sapphire. Today, pSemi’s product portfolio spans power • Simplicity: Through the ScaleX platform, it is management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna straightforward to create workflows and launch jobs. tuning, power amplifiers and integrated RF frontends. These Jobs can be assigned based on project or workflow, products are then integrated into modules for smartphones, base budget, available quota, and other factors. stations, industrial, automotive, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. • Efficiency: Match the right compute architecture to the simulation based on a number of factors, from compute The verification process used to simulate frontend module capability to available budget. interactions for smartphones is extremely computationally- intensive and time sensitive. pSemi depends on delivering • End-to-end security from encryption to cloud ensures technical solutions to its customers in predictable timeframes data is always protected. - and minimizing the time and complexity associated with simulation runs. • Zero-IT footprint: In both hybrid and public cloud “In smartphones today there’s an antenna, a frontend, and a scenarios, no on-premise hardware is needed; the radio,” says Nicolas Comfoltey, Director of Product Development platform is offered as a service. at pSemi. “The frontend is a signal conditioning unit that sits between the radio and outside environment to protect against The Benefits signal interference.” “Rescale allows us to speed up those simulations and do studies we couldn’t do before,” added Comfoltey. “For example, we are The complexity associated with designing and testing frontends developing a module for a leading-edge smartphone. Originally, has increased significantly over the years. “A key goal,” adds my engineers came to me, and they said they wanted to do a Comfoltey, “is producing this technology using the least amount verification simulation. Those simulations were taking 7 days: 7 of space. For example, in smartphones of a few years ago, the days is a very long time when your customer has annual cycles frontend contents consumed 80-100 millimeters² of space. Today, and expects results on a monthly basis.” we take all of that [capability] and put it inside a single module that’s about 10-times smaller [than previous generations of “We were able to use Rescale’s cloud platform to highly parallelize smartphones]. our simulations and bring the simulation time down from 7 days Instead of having just one module, there are now 10 modules - to 15 hours. We’ve demonstrated a 10x speed improvement on each with the same complexity of a phone from only a few years numerous occasions in our EM simulations using Rescale’s cloud ago. With that we have huge computational challenges.” platform.”

The process of checking and testing all of the interactions among Moving forward, Comfoltey envisions moving more simulations these modules and all of the devices within each module - to to Rescale’s platform as a service delivery model. By treating verify that each works correctly - is a time-consuming process. pSemi’s high-performance computing infrastructure for simulations as a service, provided on-demand - where it just The Rescale Solution works - liberates his team to do what they do best: design pSemi chose Rescale ScaleX™ Enterprise. The Rescale platform innovation. experience gives Comfoltey’s team a turnkey approach to

“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

8 All Images used in this page is credited to pSemi Hybrid Cloud Gives RWDI the Elasticity and Capacity to Respond to Revenue-Generating Opportunities

Background and Challenge RWDI had specific speed and performance requirements. RWDI is a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm Choosing from a wide selection of hardware architectures specializing in the built and natural environments. They perform from a variety of major cloud service providers and specialty a wide range of engineering studies in domains including supercomputing centers, Rescale advised RWDI to run on air quality, climate analytics, energy and water modeling, Rescale’s core type Magnesium, a high-performance architecture meteorology, structural dynamics, ventilation, and wind with high-speed interconnect. engineering services on some of the world’s most notable Magnesium is specifically designed to handle high performance structures such as the London Millennium Bridge, the Petronas computing workloads such as financial risk modeling, seismic Towers in Malaysia, the Freedom Tower on the World Trade and reservoir simulation, molecular modeling, and genomic Center site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the research. Taipei 101 tower, and the mega-skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building. RWDI is diversified geographically as It is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 Haswell 3.2 GHz (3.6 well, with global operations spanning China, Australia, the Middle GHz with turbo) with DDR 4 memory networked by 56 Gb/s East, Europe, the United States, and their corporate headquarters interconnect. RWDI now runs a constant load of up to fifty-two in Canada. 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 RWDI’s business is booming, and due to their success they have back-end, RWDI’s pre-processing and post-processing are done outgrown their on-premises HPC environment. Recently, they locally, while the heavy compute step runs on Rescale. won a large wind speed mapping project across the Middle East. To analyze 30 years of atmospheric data across the entire region The Benefits in two months, they calculated they would need a million core- With RWDI’s hybrid cloud solution built on Rescale cloud hours—significantly more than their on-premises system capacity. infrastructure, RWDI has transformed their fixed, static on- Due to the short project timeline, expanding their on-premises premises system into an agile, elastic system that allows them to HPC was not feasible. Nor was building out their own software quickly respond to client opportunities and deadlines. Namely, and middleware infrastructure to be able to burst to the public the hybrid cloud gives them: cloud on their own. They needed a turnkey hybrid cloud solution to expand their existing capacity, so they compared several • The ability to take on large revenue-generating projects managed cloud services including Rescale. and meet all deadlines, regardless of project size. RWDI chose Rescale as it offered the most seamless on- • A seamless integration with their on-premises system premises/cloud integration that provided the most consistent that does not disrupt their existing engineering process. front-end user experience for their engineers, a wide variety of multi-cloud hardware including the high-performance instance • A wide selection of multi-cloud hardware architectures types that RWDI required, and excellent customer service from and the flexibility to tailor them to changing project the Rescale technical team. needs.

The Rescale Solution • Excellent customer service from Rescale’s technical RWDI came to Rescale with two requirements: a frictionless user support team. 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.

“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

All Images used in this page is credited to RWDI 9 David and Goliath: Rescale, ANSYS, and AWS Enable RF Antenna Design Startup Optisys to Disrupt Market

Background and Challenge Rescale’s seamless deployment of its ScaleX platform allows Optisys is a small, radiofrequency (RF) antenna design company Optisys to efficiently and securely connect to instant and based in Utah. Using revolutionary 3D metal printing technology scalable AWS resources via an easy-to-use, web-based workflow and 50+ years of experience in RF engineering, Optisys specifically tailored to solve engineering simulation problems. specializes in 3D printing custom RF antenna solutions for military and commercial applications. “I predominantly run optimizations on AWS with ScaleX,” says Hollenbeck. “My optimizations require dozens or hundreds of Like many RF design firms, Optisys employs ANSYS HFSS, simulations to run over a set of parameters to find an optimal a leading industry software, to perform electromagnetic solution. With Rescale I can automate concurrent job submission (EM) simulations. Optisys uses the application to conduct RF and scale up the AWS resources to complete those simulations simulations on 3D-printed antenna designs and predict their on time.” 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.” Exhaustive, large-scale EM simulations are conducted before a single Optisys runs a variety of model sizes, from small to large, causing antenna is printed. another technical challenge for scaling efficiently. Because they wanted to reduce costs and gain scalability, Optisys decided to Optisys is able to access a suite of ANSYS software products in search for a cloud provider. 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.

Optisys designs and simulates advanced, 3D-printed antennas without With ScaleX, Optisys engineers can then search simulation data an IT department. efficiently and share them with coworkers as needed, avoiding data duplication and large file downloads. The Rescale Solution Optisys ultimately decided to use the Rescale ScaleX® platform, The Benefits running Amazon Web Services (AWS) hardware to run its ANSYS By using ANSYS software on AWS hardware via the Rescale EM simulations. “We did a brief search, and Rescale with AWS platform, Optisys significantly increases its simulation capability was the best out there for running ANSYS on the cloud — and technical agility, allowing them to compete with much larger absolutely the best,” says Hollenbeck. organizations. “With Rescale, we can scale our capabilities to the problems that we have that day,” says Hollenbeck. “Rescale

10 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 Analyzing and visualizing beam directionality is a key quality metric. workloads and hardest problems.

“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

The company is also now able to scale ANSYS to multiple cores New York, Salt Lake, and visit conferences or customer sites,” on AWS, providing the opportunity to target both small and large says Hollenbeck. “It enables me to keep a continuous stream of RF projects. For larger simulation projects, the organization runs simulation going so that we can meet our contractual obligations ANSYS on AWS using up to 128 cores per run and leverages AWS for our designs, and to innovate without any slowdown due to hardware with 8 GB memory per core. a hardware bottleneck.” In addition to managing simulation workflows from anywhere, Rescale alleviates headaches from Optisys operates with additional geographic freedom by licensing. According to Hollenbeck, “We are very excited to host monitoring simulation residuals on the Rescale platform. our ANSYS licenses on the cloud. Companies spend a lot of “Rescale has allowed me to travel frequently and work from 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?”

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

All Images used in this spread is credited to Optisys 11 Dinex Reduces Time to Market of Exhaust Systems by 25%

Background and Challenge temperature, pressure, and velocity for the jet engine. They use two NASA-developed CFD software applications: Cart3D, Dinex is a Danish designer and manufacturer of exhaust and licensed by Aerion Techologies, and Fun3D. These codes are emissions systems for trucks, buses, and off-road equipment just two of the 250+ software applications that are available with production and sales facilities in 16 countries across four natively-integrated and optimized on the ScaleX cloud platform. 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 The Benefits of thermal stresses on thermal parts; and FEA simulations of Using Rescale’s ScaleX platform, Dinex was able to reduce the structural static and dynamic forces. They run CFD on AVL FIRE turnaround time for each optimization from four weeks to one and FEA on ANSYS Mechanical. At 4-5 million cells per model, week, equivalent to a 75% reduction in turnaround time. (Each these models are large and typically run for three weeks on their iteration includes making design changes, generating the mesh, 32-core in-house server. setting up the model on ScaleX, running it, viewing results, and making decisions). Dinex had a project for a Chinese truck manufacturer to design a new selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust system that In total, this reduced simulation time for the total project by 18 would allow the manufacturer’s trucks to meet the China 5 weeks. emission standards. Accelerated simulation had many material benefits to Dinex’s The project required a very large model but also had a tight business, including: deadline. With only a few weeks to complete the project, Dinex turned to the cloud for big compute resources. • 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 Dinex analyses fluid flow around exhaust header valves using CFD on latest technologies to yield optimized designs in record Rescale. time.

The Rescale Solution Boom 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

“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

12 All Images used in this page is credited to Dinex Pinnacle Engines Achieves 80% Turnaround Time Reduction

Background and Challenge The Rescale Solution Pinnacle Engines is a game-changing engine company Using Rescale to customize their simulation resources to each developing and commercializing an ultra-efficient engine job, Pinnacle Engines is able to: architecture. Pinnacle Engines uses Rescale to quickly run a wide variety of simulations, including the analysis of a four- • Dynamically provision HPC resources within five minutes stroke internal combustion engine using the computational fluid of job submission dynamics (CFD) tool, CONVERGE by Convergent Science. • Run tens of jobs simultaneously without having to queue For Pinnacle Engines, designing an engine with 30-50% for software or hardware fuel efficiency requires many simulations, constant iterations, and the compute power to accomplish all this within project • Execute simulations whenever needed using both on timelines. To meet strict deadlines while fully exploring demand Rescale hardware and CONVERGE software the design space, Pinnacle Engines uses Rescale’s cloud simulation platform to run injector model characteristic • Gather results and deliver them to local servers for post studies, geometrical simplification studies, and reaction processing and analysis mechanism reductions, among others. Each of these analyses is used to design an ultra-efficient and powerful four-stroke • Securely run proprietary simulation models with end-to engine. end data encryption on isolated, encrypted clusters

Running tens to hundreds of models simultaneously requires In short, Rescale’s secure, intuitive cloud platform combined extensive compute resources and access to a large pool of with on-demand CONVERGE CFD software enabled Pinnacle simulation software licenses--equating to large up-front costs Engines to efficiently execute 240+ simulations to improve and personnel investments. Even with a powerful internal their engine design and significantly shorten the design cycle. processing cluster, the ability to run parallel jobs can be significantly limited. The Benefits Using 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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