ARC Accelerates Time-to-Market of Thrusters by Over 50% with Rescale
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- ANSYS Fluent
- ANSYS Mechanical
- ANSYS Additive Print
- Rescale
Tech Stack
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Cloud Computing
- Additive Manufacturing
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
- Innovation Output
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Additive Manufacturing
- Digital Twin
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC) is an innovative aerospace company that leverages additive manufacturing and industry-leading scientists to create high performance propulsion components for the expanding space industry. Additive manufacturing is the process of successively binding layers of various materials together to create complex, fluid systems that were previously infeasible with standard manufacturing methods. To design and direct the manufacturing of these complex systems, ARC utilizes ANSYS Fluent, Mechanical, and Additive Print to perform CFD, FEA, coupled thermo-structural, and thermo-fluid simulations. Coupling extensive high performance computing (HPC) and additive manufacturing methods, ARC is able to create propulsion systems in one-tenth the time of competitors and at 50% the cost.
The Challenge
ARC, an innovative aerospace company that 3D prints metal rocket engines, was facing a bottleneck in their product development pipeline due to the lack of scalability in computing resources and agility in resource diversity. Their local on-premise HPC system with 50-128 cores at 80% utilization was not sufficient to run the large number of simulations required for their product development. This severely limited ARC’s simulation-throughput and design of experiments (DOE), delaying their potential time-to-market. Faced with the urgent demand for more computing resources, ARC had to decide between investing in a static on-premise HPC system or moving to a cloud-enabled HPC system.
The Solution
ARC decided to commit to Rescale, a cloud-enabled HPC system, for several reasons. Rescale provides the ability to access a near-infinite inventory of the latest cloud computing resources, instantly. Access to multiple cloud providers offers a diverse inventory of computing hardware from AWS, Azure, and IBM, which allows users to select the optimal computing resources for specific applications. Coupling the latest HPC cloud hardware with +350 ported and tuned applications creates an unrestricted HPC environment. Due to extensive partnerships, Rescale accepts a broad range of computing credits from hardware and software providers. Rescale’s easy-to-use, simulation-centric platform makes software integration, deployment, and use of the platform extremely simple when compared to open source cloud platforms and on-premise HPC systems. Rescale’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows for direct interaction and modification of applications within the platform. Rescale automates and simplifies +30 IT activities required to perform a single simulation. Rescale provides comprehensive support throughout the deployment of the platform and submission of simulation jobs.
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