Industries worldwide are going through a Digitalization process towards industry 4.0 where cloud resources play a key role, forcing a transition for CAE engineers from traditional, in-house HPC to more flexible solutions in the cloud. On the digital maturity journey there are different dimensions to consider when transitioning a CAE team to the cloud as a permanent solution, being the needs and requirements of the different industries not always covered with a single solution, what requires an analysis of the different layers involved (IT/Network, Licensing, Security, Engineering).
A decision in favor of the cloud and the associated organizational changes are of central strategic importance for automotive OEMs and their suppliers. In advance, it is important to clarify whether existing organizational structures and processes can actually be optimized with the help of the cloud. To this end, we regularly carry out benchmarks for well-known customers as a decision-making aid. In the presentation, we will present a benchmark with real productive jobs based on existing data in the customer's specific environment. Mapping the workflow with selected CAE applications in the cloud provided a realistic basis for evaluation of their benefits and costs. In addition to comparing runtimes and results of selected benchmark jobs, our experts tested the quality of remote work in a workstation scenario for selected finite element analyses (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses (CFD) and iterative analyses.
While the traditional development cycle of "design-build-test" often lasted several years, today it is imperative to bring innovations to market readiness with simulation-driven design and digital twin in shorter time spans. Virtual tests on vehicles make a significant impact in effectively reducing development times and costs. Companies must master two fundamental challenges for their efficient use: on the one hand, complex and time-intensive engineering tasks have to be mastered quickly. On the other hand, solutions are increasingly required that organise the complex product development across organizational units. The Digital Engineering Center, an engineering workplace in the cloud, meets these challenges.
Transitioning LS-Dyna workloads to the Cloud in the path to Digital Maturity