AGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud
公司规模
Large Corporate
国家
- Japan
产品
- Rescale’s ScaleX platform
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory Services
- STAR-CCM+
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- LAMMPS
技术栈
- Cloud Computing
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Innovation Output
- Digital Expertise
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用行业
- 玻璃
- 化学品
- 电子产品
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 产品研发
用例
- 预测性维护
- 自动化制造系统
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 数据科学服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
AGC, founded in 1907, is a global leader in the manufacturing of glass, ceramic, chemicals, and electronics materials. The company operates 210 companies globally and focuses on strategic industries such as mobility, electronics, and life sciences. AGC's mission and vision are forward-looking, aiming to overcome new challenges and continuously drive innovations that improve people's lives everywhere. The company turned to Rescale to extend its high-performance computing (HPC) resources to the cloud, transforming the way its researchers and engineers work with data, run simulations, use software, and fundamentally design innovation.
挑战
AGC, a global leader in glass, ceramic, chemicals, and electronics materials manufacturing, faced several challenges related to workflow and how users actively work with simulation tools and data. Sophisticated microstructure geometry designs needed to be modeled from the molecular-level up to the system level. These simulation models are very computationally-intensive and need to be performed continuously and across each step in the design and manufacturing process. Managing complex processes and workflows was further complicated by software updates. AGC uses a diverse suite of applications like LAMMPS, STAR-CCM+®, and COMSOL Multiphysics® to model different types of physics, and it was difficult to keep up with all of the software installation updates and maintenance. As a global enterprise with the highest security standards and requirements, AGC needed the solution to comply with the strictest IT policies, yet also simplify how users work with data and software tools and obtain resources. Other challenges included integrating security from the on-premise facilities to the cloud, minimizing data movement across the wide-area network (WAN) for hybrid cloud workflows, software licensing, accommodating complex, multi-step workflows, administration of policies, methodologies, software, and management tools, and future compatibility to enable breakthrough in areas such as machine learning and deep learning.
解决方案
AGC collaborated with Rescale to deliver an end-to-end multi-cloud platform for enterprise big compute and HPC that integrates on-premise workflows and technologies and securely extends HPC to their cloud provider of choice. The solution simplifies, optimizes, and enables AGC to control and delegate access to cloud resources through a single, universal, self-administering interface, the Rescale platform. The Rescale solution includes end-to-end security, flexible enterprise licensing, visualization in the cloud, hybrid cloud workflow optimization, and maximum scalability and flexibility for HPC. Users can choose where to run their jobs, either on-premise or in the cloud. In cases where users run in the cloud, they are immediately able to obtain massive scalability to reduce time to results for simulation runs and improve accuracy and simulation quality.
运营影响
数量效益
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