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. ©2018 Rescale, Inc. Rescale, Inc. 33 New Montgomery St. Suite 950 San Francisco, CA 94105 Version 1.1 Produced in the United States of America All Rights Reserved s n o i AICPA t a z i n a g r O e SOC c i v r aicpa.org/soc4so e S S O | C s fo on r Se ati rvice Organiz ™ Content AGC AGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud 4 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