Altair Case Studies Fast Design for Electromobility: C-TEC's Cloud Scaling with Altair and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

	Fast Design for Electromobility: C-TEC's Cloud Scaling with Altair and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Altair

Fast Design for Electromobility: C-TEC's Cloud Scaling with Altair and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Cement Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Testing & Certification
Challenge	C-TEC, a Germany-based company specializing in the development and production of intelligent devices, machines, and systems, faced a significant challenge in meeting the new E.U. standards for passenger-vehicle fuel efficiency and emissions that came into effect in 2017. The Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) demanded more stringent compliance, pushing C-TEC to improve and optimize the aerodynamics of box utility vehicles while retaining most of the same components. This optimization required GPU-accelerated high-performance computing (HPC). However, C-TEC lacked experience in CFD simulations and did not have access to the necessary hardware to run expensive, compute-intensive multi-GPU workloads. Read More
About Customer	C-TEC is a young and innovative company based in Blaustein, Germany. The company specializes in the development and production of intelligent devices, machines, and systems. C-TEC's special machines and solutions enable its customers to optimize their production processes and to perfect, accelerate, and automate handling and throughput. The company helps manufacturers improve their work processes and product quality. C-TEC handles the entire range of functions, from engineering and production, to assembly and commissioning from a single source, ensuring that system functionality and reliability meet the company’s objectives. Read More
Solution	To overcome these challenges, C-TEC partnered with Altair and Oracle to implement the turnkey Altair® Unlimited™ virtual appliance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This fully managed Altair cloud appliance on OCI’s superior bare-metal infrastructure eliminated the need for complex HPC management and provided flexibility, easy scaling, and top performance. It offered unlimited use of a wide range of Altair solver software, HPC resource management tools, and a user-friendly web portal. With Altair Unlimited, C-TEC avoided the high cost of on-premises HPC architecture. The team used the Altair Unlimited virtual appliance on OCI to run Altair® ultraFluidX® on NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, creating a new design that reduced aerodynamic drag while maintaining functional properties like lightweight construction and high payload capacity. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Cement

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Testing & Certification

Challenge

C-TEC, a Germany-based company specializing in the development and production of intelligent devices, machines, and systems, faced a significant challenge in meeting the new E.U. standards for passenger-vehicle fuel efficiency and emissions that came into effect in 2017. The Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) demanded more stringent compliance, pushing C-TEC to improve and optimize the aerodynamics of box utility vehicles while retaining most of the same components. This optimization required GPU-accelerated high-performance computing (HPC). However, C-TEC lacked experience in CFD simulations and did not have access to the necessary hardware to run expensive, compute-intensive multi-GPU workloads.

About Customer

C-TEC is a young and innovative company based in Blaustein, Germany. The company specializes in the development and production of intelligent devices, machines, and systems. C-TEC's special machines and solutions enable its customers to optimize their production processes and to perfect, accelerate, and automate handling and throughput. The company helps manufacturers improve their work processes and product quality. C-TEC handles the entire range of functions, from engineering and production, to assembly and commissioning from a single source, ensuring that system functionality and reliability meet the company’s objectives.

Solution

To overcome these challenges, C-TEC partnered with Altair and Oracle to implement the turnkey Altair® Unlimited™ virtual appliance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This fully managed Altair cloud appliance on OCI’s superior bare-metal infrastructure eliminated the need for complex HPC management and provided flexibility, easy scaling, and top performance. It offered unlimited use of a wide range of Altair solver software, HPC resource management tools, and a user-friendly web portal. With Altair Unlimited, C-TEC avoided the high cost of on-premises HPC architecture. The team used the Altair Unlimited virtual appliance on OCI to run Altair® ultraFluidX® on NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, creating a new design that reduced aerodynamic drag while maintaining functional properties like lightweight construction and high payload capacity.

Impact #1	The implementation of the Altair Unlimited virtual appliance on OCI allowed C-TEC to meet stringent regulations and cater to the rising demand for aerodynamically optimized vehicles, a crucial feature in electric vehicles. The improvements also increased vehicle range. By computing in the cloud, C-TEC avoided the high cost of an on-premises computing cluster, eliminating capex costs and enabling them to pass along usage costs as an operating expense for the project. This solution also allowed the company to explore a new field and ultimately add it to their own permanent portfolio.

Impact #1

The implementation of the Altair Unlimited virtual appliance on OCI allowed C-TEC to meet stringent regulations and cater to the rising demand for aerodynamically optimized vehicles, a crucial feature in electric vehicles. The improvements also increased vehicle range. By computing in the cloud, C-TEC avoided the high cost of an on-premises computing cluster, eliminating capex costs and enabling them to pass along usage costs as an operating expense for the project. This solution also allowed the company to explore a new field and ultimately add it to their own permanent portfolio.

Benefit #1	Achieved up to 42% drag reduction compared to a standard box-body workload
Benefit #2	Test drive fuel savings are around 27%
Benefit #3	Significant cost savings of around 49%

Benefit #1

Achieved up to 42% drag reduction compared to a standard box-body workload

Benefit #2

Test drive fuel savings are around 27%

Benefit #3

Significant cost savings of around 49%

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Fast Design for Electromobility: C-TEC's Cloud Scaling with Altair and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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