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	Exponent Expands HPC Capabilities With Rescale to Drive the Future Of Computational Engineering

Exponent Expands HPC Capabilities With Rescale to Drive the Future Of Computational Engineering

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Automotive Electronics Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Exponent, a company providing a wide variety of engineering and scientific consulting services, was facing challenges due to the increasing technological complexity of their clients' demands. Their clients, who are building next-generation consumer electronics, energy, healthcare, and automotive products, were increasingly relying on Exponent’s expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and thermal management. However, the needs of these projects quickly outpaced the computational capacity of Exponent’s internal HPC hardware. The team needed a solution that could be right-sized for each client and simple enough for new engineers joining the team to learn and use quickly. Read More
About Customer	Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that provides a wide variety of services to the world’s largest innovators. The company was founded in 1967 and has its headquarters in the USA, with over 20 offices globally. Exponent's engineers and scientists span over 90 different disciplines, providing their clients with independent expertise to solve design challenges or investigate product performance across a wide range of industries. A key ingredient to these services is the use of high-performance computing (HPC)-driven design iteration and simulation. The company is known for its high-profile failure investigations and for helping clients solve their most pressing technical challenges. Read More
Solution	Exponent evaluated and selected Rescale as a solution to their HPC challenges. Rescale provided a scalable and easy-to-use solution that could be right-sized for each client and was simple enough for new engineers joining the team to learn and use quickly. With Rescale, any Exponent consultant, anywhere in the world, could instantly access the latest HPC hardware and software for each client's needs. From the very first login, consultants were able to get started with the software they were already familiar with and run these tools on cloud-based HPC infrastructure, enabling highly parallelized computing and faster run times. The Exponent team was also able to increase the fidelity of their simulations with higher cell counts as high as 25 million cells. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Electronics

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Exponent, a company providing a wide variety of engineering and scientific consulting services, was facing challenges due to the increasing technological complexity of their clients' demands. Their clients, who are building next-generation consumer electronics, energy, healthcare, and automotive products, were increasingly relying on Exponent’s expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and thermal management. However, the needs of these projects quickly outpaced the computational capacity of Exponent’s internal HPC hardware. The team needed a solution that could be right-sized for each client and simple enough for new engineers joining the team to learn and use quickly.

About Customer

Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that provides a wide variety of services to the world’s largest innovators. The company was founded in 1967 and has its headquarters in the USA, with over 20 offices globally. Exponent's engineers and scientists span over 90 different disciplines, providing their clients with independent expertise to solve design challenges or investigate product performance across a wide range of industries. A key ingredient to these services is the use of high-performance computing (HPC)-driven design iteration and simulation. The company is known for its high-profile failure investigations and for helping clients solve their most pressing technical challenges.

Solution

Exponent evaluated and selected Rescale as a solution to their HPC challenges. Rescale provided a scalable and easy-to-use solution that could be right-sized for each client and was simple enough for new engineers joining the team to learn and use quickly. With Rescale, any Exponent consultant, anywhere in the world, could instantly access the latest HPC hardware and software for each client's needs. From the very first login, consultants were able to get started with the software they were already familiar with and run these tools on cloud-based HPC infrastructure, enabling highly parallelized computing and faster run times. The Exponent team was also able to increase the fidelity of their simulations with higher cell counts as high as 25 million cells.

Impact #1	Faster, easier engineer onboarding
Impact #2	Improved Simulation Fidelity
Impact #3	End-to-End Automation

Impact #1

Faster, easier engineer onboarding

Impact #2

Improved Simulation Fidelity

Impact #3

End-to-End Automation

Benefit #1	10x Acceleration of engineering and scientific computing solve speed
Benefit #2	10x Increase in simulation fidelity to meet growing job complexity
Benefit #3	Tripled the number of CFD consultants doing HPC work simultaneously

Benefit #1

10x Acceleration of engineering and scientific computing solve speed

Benefit #2

10x Increase in simulation fidelity to meet growing job complexity

Benefit #3

Tripled the number of CFD consultants doing HPC work simultaneously

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Exponent Expands HPC Capabilities With Rescale to Drive the Future Of Computational Engineering

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