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Adaptive Corporation's Cloud-Based Transformation with Rescale

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Aerospace Life Sciences
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Manufacturing Process Simulation Virtual Reality
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Hardware Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Adaptive Corporation, a leading Digital to Physical Product Lifecycle Company, was facing significant challenges with its High-Performance Computing (HPC) system. The company's workload varied greatly throughout the year, leading to either underutilized computing capacity or insufficient capacity when multiple projects were underway simultaneously. This resulted in bottlenecks when multiple jobs needed to be solved at the same time, causing projects to run over schedule. Additionally, the on-premise hardware was becoming outdated within 2-3 years, necessitating frequent upgrades and a dedicated IT support team to maintain the servers and licenses. These issues were undermining Adaptive Corporation's mission to provide tailored solutions that help customers shorten development and production cycles. Read More
About Customer	Adaptive Corporation is a leading Digital to Physical Product Lifecycle Company that helps streamline business processes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies for customers who need to bring new products to market. The company works closely with its 500+ customers, which include leading manufacturers of industrial and consumer products and the suppliers that provide the underlying subsystems. Adaptive Corporation's unique 'Digital to Physical' product portfolio includes CAD/CAM, CAE, PLM, business analytics, metrology, and 3D printing solutions from leading IT providers. The company's mission is to craft tailored solutions that help customers shorten development and production cycles throughout product planning, development, manufacturing, and after-market service processes. Read More
Solution	To overcome these challenges, Adaptive Corporation turned to the cloud for bursting and chose Rescale due to its competitive pricing and ability to customize solutions. The company transitioned from its existing HPC system to a 'reverse hybrid' cloud computing environment, relying primarily on Rescale's unlimited, on-demand capacity. Since 2014, Adaptive Corporation has been running Abaqus on Rescale and even hosts its license on their server. This setup allows the company to tap into their license server on Rescale when they need to run simulations on desktop computers, eliminating the headache of license management. This cloud-based solution has provided Adaptive Corporation with the flexibility to meet the demands of their simulation engineers and respond to their constantly changing compute needs. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Life Sciences

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Manufacturing Process Simulation

Virtual Reality

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Hardware Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Adaptive Corporation, a leading Digital to Physical Product Lifecycle Company, was facing significant challenges with its High-Performance Computing (HPC) system. The company's workload varied greatly throughout the year, leading to either underutilized computing capacity or insufficient capacity when multiple projects were underway simultaneously. This resulted in bottlenecks when multiple jobs needed to be solved at the same time, causing projects to run over schedule. Additionally, the on-premise hardware was becoming outdated within 2-3 years, necessitating frequent upgrades and a dedicated IT support team to maintain the servers and licenses. These issues were undermining Adaptive Corporation's mission to provide tailored solutions that help customers shorten development and production cycles.

About Customer

Adaptive Corporation is a leading Digital to Physical Product Lifecycle Company that helps streamline business processes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies for customers who need to bring new products to market. The company works closely with its 500+ customers, which include leading manufacturers of industrial and consumer products and the suppliers that provide the underlying subsystems. Adaptive Corporation's unique 'Digital to Physical' product portfolio includes CAD/CAM, CAE, PLM, business analytics, metrology, and 3D printing solutions from leading IT providers. The company's mission is to craft tailored solutions that help customers shorten development and production cycles throughout product planning, development, manufacturing, and after-market service processes.

Solution

To overcome these challenges, Adaptive Corporation turned to the cloud for bursting and chose Rescale due to its competitive pricing and ability to customize solutions. The company transitioned from its existing HPC system to a 'reverse hybrid' cloud computing environment, relying primarily on Rescale's unlimited, on-demand capacity. Since 2014, Adaptive Corporation has been running Abaqus on Rescale and even hosts its license on their server. This setup allows the company to tap into their license server on Rescale when they need to run simulations on desktop computers, eliminating the headache of license management. This cloud-based solution has provided Adaptive Corporation with the flexibility to meet the demands of their simulation engineers and respond to their constantly changing compute needs.

Impact #1	The transition to Rescale's cloud-based solution has brought about significant operational improvements for Adaptive Corporation. The company has been able to significantly reduce its IT overhead, eliminating the need for license server maintenance and dramatically reducing IT spending. The availability of on-demand resources on the cloud has ensured that the company never has underutilized compute capacity, and employees can focus on engineering rather than managing hardware. This has allowed Adaptive Corporation to focus its resources on value-added business activities, improving its operational efficiency.

Impact #1

The transition to Rescale's cloud-based solution has brought about significant operational improvements for Adaptive Corporation. The company has been able to significantly reduce its IT overhead, eliminating the need for license server maintenance and dramatically reducing IT spending. The availability of on-demand resources on the cloud has ensured that the company never has underutilized compute capacity, and employees can focus on engineering rather than managing hardware. This has allowed Adaptive Corporation to focus its resources on value-added business activities, improving its operational efficiency.

Benefit #1	Jobs are solved more than 10x faster with Rescale's cloud-based solution.
Benefit #2	Significant reduction in IT overhead and spending.
Benefit #3	Elimination of underutilized compute capacity.

Benefit #1

Jobs are solved more than 10x faster with Rescale's cloud-based solution.

Benefit #2

Significant reduction in IT overhead and spending.

Benefit #3

Elimination of underutilized compute capacity.

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