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	Zeleros Bolsters Engineering Productivity with Rescale on AWS HPC

Zeleros Bolsters Engineering Productivity with Rescale on AWS HPC

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Transportation
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Zeleros, a startup developing an innovative hyperloop system to revolutionize ground travel, was facing challenges with its local computing capabilities. The company's local computing capabilities lacked the flexibility to accommodate the changing requirements for simulations and modeling. The on-premises computing capacity was fully occupied by a single simulation, causing significant impediments to productivity. The team was also losing a significant amount of time benchmarking to find the appropriate HPC instance for each simulation. Read More
About Customer	Zeleros is a startup based in Valencia, Spain, that is developing an innovative hyperloop system to revolutionize ground travel. The company was founded in 2016 and has since been at the forefront of ground transportation design. Zeleros' early innovations won the SpaceX at Hyperloop Pod Competition, a global competition organized by Elon Musk. The company's Dynamics Engineer, Federico Lluesma, is responsible for managing the development of hyperloop model simulations to test and perfect definitive attributes of the company’s prototype and ensure real-world performance. Read More
Solution	Zeleros turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud-based high performance computing (HPC) to enhance and support their process. The company used the Rescale HPC automation platform, which is built for hybrid and cloud HPC, and geared specifically for companies in the R&D phase. This platform helped Zeleros optimize AWS services and significantly transformed the capabilities of the Zeleros team. Rescale provided application lifecycle management that streamlined software configuration and licensing updates. The platform also unlocked new simulations that had been impossible to execute. Rescale also provided Zeleros with pre-set command lines on a graphical user interface, reducing complexity for all users and enhancing team-wide efficiency. 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

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Zeleros, a startup developing an innovative hyperloop system to revolutionize ground travel, was facing challenges with its local computing capabilities. The company's local computing capabilities lacked the flexibility to accommodate the changing requirements for simulations and modeling. The on-premises computing capacity was fully occupied by a single simulation, causing significant impediments to productivity. The team was also losing a significant amount of time benchmarking to find the appropriate HPC instance for each simulation.

About Customer

Zeleros is a startup based in Valencia, Spain, that is developing an innovative hyperloop system to revolutionize ground travel. The company was founded in 2016 and has since been at the forefront of ground transportation design. Zeleros' early innovations won the SpaceX at Hyperloop Pod Competition, a global competition organized by Elon Musk. The company's Dynamics Engineer, Federico Lluesma, is responsible for managing the development of hyperloop model simulations to test and perfect definitive attributes of the company’s prototype and ensure real-world performance.

Solution

Zeleros turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud-based high performance computing (HPC) to enhance and support their process. The company used the Rescale HPC automation platform, which is built for hybrid and cloud HPC, and geared specifically for companies in the R&D phase. This platform helped Zeleros optimize AWS services and significantly transformed the capabilities of the Zeleros team. Rescale provided application lifecycle management that streamlined software configuration and licensing updates. The platform also unlocked new simulations that had been impossible to execute. Rescale also provided Zeleros with pre-set command lines on a graphical user interface, reducing complexity for all users and enhancing team-wide efficiency.

Impact #1	The team’s turnaround time for aerodynamic simulations was instantly reduced from one week to one day.
Impact #2	The new interface allowed users to bypass a previous need for a terminal connection and manual entry, significantly reducing the learning curve for the growing team of new HPC users at Zeleros.
Impact #3	Rescale streamlined hardware selection and optimization according to a range of key specifications including memory and workload.

Impact #1

The team’s turnaround time for aerodynamic simulations was instantly reduced from one week to one day.

Impact #2

The new interface allowed users to bypass a previous need for a terminal connection and manual entry, significantly reducing the learning curve for the growing team of new HPC users at Zeleros.

Impact #3

Rescale streamlined hardware selection and optimization according to a range of key specifications including memory and workload.

Benefit #1	Turnaround time for aerodynamic simulations reduced from one week to one day.
Benefit #2	Significant reduction in the learning curve for the growing team of new HPC users at Zeleros.

Benefit #1

Turnaround time for aerodynamic simulations reduced from one week to one day.

Benefit #2

Significant reduction in the learning curve for the growing team of new HPC users at Zeleros.

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Zeleros Bolsters Engineering Productivity with Rescale on AWS HPC

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