PITTSBURGH, Aug. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Engineers are unlocking increased compute capacity
to achieve advancements in 5G, autonomous systems, electric
vehicles, and other global megatrends thanks to ANSYS®
Cloud™ high-performance computing (HPC), powered by Microsoft
Azure. Available from directly within ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS)
engineering simulation software, ANSYS Cloud is helping
organizations rapidly run high-fidelity simulations, shortening
development cycles and increasing time to market.
Following its initial release in February, ANSYS Cloud has
gained marketplace momentum — with hundreds of customers taking
advantage of its functionality. Small and medium-sized companies
are leveraging hundreds of compute cores to solve challenging
problems without expensive on-premises HPC infrastructure. Larger
enterprises with their own HPC resources are relying on ANSYS Cloud
to offer extra capacity during peak usage.
"We produced our large and complex cycling aerodynamics
simulations on ANSYS Cloud, using Microsoft Azure Active Directory
and Azure support for hybrid cloud scenarios, which delivered an
easy, instantaneous and cost-effective connection to HPC whenever
we needed it," said Bert Blocken,
professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. "Our research
team seamlessly linked to ANSYS Cloud on their desktops within
ANSYS® Fluent™ and conducted computationally difficult
simulations with unparalleled speed. The simulation results were
invaluable, revealing substantial aerodynamic gains that
significantly advanced our research."
Announced in May, the integration of ANSYS Cloud within
ANSYS® Electronics Desktop™, including ANSYS®
HFSS™ and ANSYS® SIwave™, enables electronics customers
to obtain in-depth product performance data for critical and
time-sensitive electronics engineering decisions. For example, a
customer designing high-speed electronics products using the
distributed HFSS matrix solver dramatically decreased hardware
requirements on a complex PCB — achieving an 85% per machine RAM
reduction. In addition, the same distributed HFSS matrix solver was
2x faster in ANSYS Cloud and provided an overall 10x speed up.
ANSYS® Mechanical™ users also benefit from
easily accessable compute power to solve complex models beyond the
reach of their desktop machines. "LPI, Inc. provides advanced
engineering services to a wide range of industries and our team is
often tasked with creating sophisticated, non-linear structural
models that are computationally intense," said Evan Schickel, senior. engineer, LPI, Inc.
"ANSYS Cloud provides us the flexibility to take on projects with
compressed timetables and complicated models that would be
otherwise impossible."
"ANSYS Cloud is gaining significant momentum following its
initial release, with our customers seeing immediate benefits from
its increased simulation throughput and unequaled business
agility," said Navin Budhiraja, vice
president and general manager of cloud and platform at ANSYS.
"Incorporating ANSYS Electronics Desktop into the latest version of
ANSYS Cloud allows broader customer access to on-demand HPC,
greatly enhancing product quality and accelerating speed to
market."
With the benefits of Azure, ANSYS Cloud users across industries
are cutting costs with the usage-based licensing model for both
hardware and ANSYS applications — purchasing only the HPC capacity
they need and avoiding large, fixed-capital expenditures. ANSYS
Cloud creates seamless and secure cloud access by combining ANSYS'
leading software with Azure's services for enterprise-grade
security.
Navneet Joneja, Head of Product –
Azure Compute at Microsoft Corp. said, "ANSYS Cloud's traction with
customers is a testament to the great scaling performance and
security that Microsoft Azure delivers. Organizations benefit from
Azure's vast number of on-demand compute cores to run large
parallel and tightly coupled simulations, enabled by infrastructure
specifically designed for HPC featuring RDMA InfiniBand. With
Azure, ANSYS customers get performance without sacrificing security
as sensitive proprietary data remains highly secure and protected
by technologies that prohibit unauthorized access."
About ANSYS, Inc.
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its
creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering
simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering
Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver
radically better products to their customers. By offering the best
and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help
them solve the most complex design challenges and create products
limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, ANSYS is
headquartered south of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Visit www.ansys.com for more
information.
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