Case Studies Liberty University Engineering Invests in Cloud-Native HPC to Enable New R&D Capabilities

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	Liberty University Engineering Invests in Cloud-Native HPC to Enable New R&D Capabilities

Liberty University Engineering Invests in Cloud-Native HPC to Enable New R&D Capabilities

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Liberty University's engineering program, one of the fastest growing schools within the university, required computation-intensive R&D and faced challenges providing adequate high performance computing (HPC) resources. The HPC software and hardware required varied greatly across a wide range of engineering programs, including civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, and computer engineering. Combining that variation with the ongoing need for support posed a challenge for the IT team, so they began to search for a solution that could quickly scale to the needs of the school. They had concerns around cost and their ability to deliver it quickly. When they explored their specific requirements they knew they were short on personnel to implement and maintain a solution on-premises, so they explored options for cloud HPC. Read More
About Customer	Liberty University is on a mission to educate values-driven students in an environment that encourages innovation and impacts tomorrow’s society. In order to empower student and faculty researchers and continue to attract future leaders, the Liberty School of Engineering invests in curriculum and tools that enable cutting-edge research projects. Adapting to the demands of a quickly evolving industry landscape, the university has woven the practice of simulation-based design throughout its various disciplines. By applying simulation and other computational engineering approaches to its classes, competitions, and clubs, the school hopes to continue growing its reputation for producing high-quality research and top graduates. Read More
Solution	Liberty’s IT and Engineering teams searched for a solution that could easily scale and support any number of students and an array of computational needs like batch HPC workloads and cloud desktops for visualization and pre/post processing. Once they decided that cloud was their preferred strategy, they began to assess the work required to build their own cloud services on top of a public cloud service provider. In this process, the team was working to enable a specialized HPC software whose vendor had experience working with Rescale and recommended it as a comprehensive and easy-to-deploy HPC solution for that software. It was determined that Rescale could also support all of Liberty’s other HPC applications while providing prebuilt IT management tooling that would save the team significant implementation time. 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) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Liberty University's engineering program, one of the fastest growing schools within the university, required computation-intensive R&D and faced challenges providing adequate high performance computing (HPC) resources. The HPC software and hardware required varied greatly across a wide range of engineering programs, including civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, and computer engineering. Combining that variation with the ongoing need for support posed a challenge for the IT team, so they began to search for a solution that could quickly scale to the needs of the school. They had concerns around cost and their ability to deliver it quickly. When they explored their specific requirements they knew they were short on personnel to implement and maintain a solution on-premises, so they explored options for cloud HPC.

About Customer

Liberty University is on a mission to educate values-driven students in an environment that encourages innovation and impacts tomorrow’s society. In order to empower student and faculty researchers and continue to attract future leaders, the Liberty School of Engineering invests in curriculum and tools that enable cutting-edge research projects. Adapting to the demands of a quickly evolving industry landscape, the university has woven the practice of simulation-based design throughout its various disciplines. By applying simulation and other computational engineering approaches to its classes, competitions, and clubs, the school hopes to continue growing its reputation for producing high-quality research and top graduates.

Solution

Liberty’s IT and Engineering teams searched for a solution that could easily scale and support any number of students and an array of computational needs like batch HPC workloads and cloud desktops for visualization and pre/post processing. Once they decided that cloud was their preferred strategy, they began to assess the work required to build their own cloud services on top of a public cloud service provider. In this process, the team was working to enable a specialized HPC software whose vendor had experience working with Rescale and recommended it as a comprehensive and easy-to-deploy HPC solution for that software. It was determined that Rescale could also support all of Liberty’s other HPC applications while providing prebuilt IT management tooling that would save the team significant implementation time.

Impact #1	Rescale provided an all-in-one HPC platform that was easy to implement, use, and control.
Impact #2	It allows the university to manage the hardware and costs down to a project level, which is a huge benefit.
Impact #3	Giving Liberty researchers an easy-to-learn user experience and flexible on-demand access to the latest cloud HPC tools through Rescale has opened up new possibilities.

Impact #1

Rescale provided an all-in-one HPC platform that was easy to implement, use, and control.

Impact #2

It allows the university to manage the hardware and costs down to a project level, which is a huge benefit.

Impact #3

Giving Liberty researchers an easy-to-learn user experience and flexible on-demand access to the latest cloud HPC tools through Rescale has opened up new possibilities.

Benefit #1	2,500+ HPC R&D Experiments
Benefit #2	Comprising 6+ million core hours across a wide variety of engineering research projects

Benefit #1

2,500+ HPC R&D Experiments

Benefit #2

Comprising 6+ million core hours across a wide variety of engineering research projects

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Liberty University Engineering Invests in Cloud-Native HPC to Enable New R&D Capabilities

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