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

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

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

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Digital Twin Predictive Quality Analytics
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Boom Supersonic, an aerospace startup, is designing a supersonic passenger jet that will revolutionize business travel. However, creating a technological breakthrough in the aerospace sector traditionally requires billions of dollars in R&D, a large engineering staff, extensive wind tunnel testing, and many years of development. 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. Read More
About Customer	Boom 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. Read More
Solution	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. 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. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Digital Twin

Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Boom Supersonic, an aerospace startup, is designing a supersonic passenger jet that will revolutionize business travel. However, creating a technological breakthrough in the aerospace sector traditionally requires billions of dollars in R&D, a large engineering staff, extensive wind tunnel testing, and many years of development. 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.

About Customer

Boom 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.

Solution

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. 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.

Impact #1	Boom has been able to revitalize a stagnant industry segment through revolutionary engineering design.
Impact #2	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.
Impact #3	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.

Impact #1

Boom has been able to revitalize a stagnant industry segment through revolutionary engineering design.

Impact #2

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.

Impact #3

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.

Benefit #1	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.
Benefit #2	Parallelization of jobs improves simulation turnaround time dramatically.

Benefit #1

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.

Benefit #2

Parallelization of jobs improves simulation turnaround time dramatically.

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

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