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HPC planning for 2019: Increase your engineering productivity


Engineers face many daily operational inefficiencies that inhibit their time-to-solution. Every day we work with engineers to provide solutions to computing resource limitations and management of HPC. Specifically, we excel at utilizing our platform to accelerate HPC engineering simulations. The impact is real: Rescale users have seen accelerated time-to-solution by 23%, allowing engineering teams to be 12% more productive overall.
In this article, we hope to give you exactly what you need to better plan for HPC in 2019.
(Your) 2019 Engineering Objectives: Measurably Improve Engineering Team Productivity
1. Shorten the turnaround time of your engineering services
2. Eliminate engineering hours spent in HPC queues
3. Increase the individual productivity of your engineers
4. Develop best practices for HPC usage by workflow
Some key issues engineers face when developing a product are simulation constraints due to queue times from lack of computing resources, software availability, architecture diversity, and departmental management. The shortage of these vital resources and tools results longer development cycles of the products that generate revenue.
1. Shorten the turnaround time of your engineering services
By eliminating queue time and enabling engineers with the best HPC hardware and software, you can optimize your research pipeline and push innovations to the market, sooner. 
The Proof:
Dinex, an automotive exhaust supplier, saw a reduction in time-to market of 25% by utilizing the Rescale platform. With abundant computing resources available through our public cloud partners, you gain the ability to mitigate queue time by immediately securing the resources as you need them. The abundant computing hardware and software diversity allows engineers to run simulation that were previously unsupported by on-premise systems (either based off intolerable queue time or software and hardware resource demand). The availability of software and computing resources, ability to innovate design of experiments, and the mitigation of queue time allow engineers to be more efficient and deliver products to market faster.
2. Eliminate engineering hours spent in HPC queues
Stop waiting to run your simulations because of limited HPC resources and/or low priority. Empower every engineer with the resources to run simulations immediately using our AWS, Azure, and IBM cloud resources.
The Proof:
Queues for running simulations can halt the research pipeline and waste valuable engineering time. A queue directly results in a delayed time-to-solution that can be critical to the progression of research. The days spent without answers can cost a company millions of dollars in engineer idle time. The ability to secure hardware as needed allows engineers to be agile with their computing resources and break the constraints of a static on-premise HPC system that limit their simulation volume and fidelity. These inefficiencies directly impact the company’s objective to bring innovations to the market and generate revenue; so, the ramifications of research inefficiencies reverberate throughout the entire organization and externally. By utilizing Rescale, you can run a single simulation on 10,000 cores, or run 10,000 simulations on 10 cores each: the availability of resources means there is no reason not to run a simulation immediately.
3. Increase the individual productivity of your engineers
Remove the constraints of static On-Premise HPC systems and engage a dynamic environment with a the latest HPC hardware and simulation software. Explore new DOE and optimize your research pipeline to achieve the fastest time-to-solutions.  
The Proof:
Rescale has over 300 ported and tuned software’s incorporated into our platform; many on a pay as you use model such as ANSYS, Siemens, CONVERGE, and LS-DYNA. Utilization of the endless, diverse computing resources allows engineers to use the best software on the best hardware, always. The coupling of the best software and hardware allows engineers to have the best results available, quickly. In addition, engineers are exposed to new software and computing resources that were previously unavailable. Some Rescale customers have seen as high as 80% reduction in time-to-answers. The freedom of architecture choices allows for the exploration of new processes in your design of experiments which can create quicker research pipelines with higher fidelity. Enabling researchers with the best tools HPC tools produces quicker results and increases productivity.
4. Develop best practices for HPC usage by workflow
Gain real time insight into your engineers activities and utilize the information to optimize your engineering departments operations and finances. 
The Proof:
Scale X Enterprise allows you to fully manage your engineers by tracking expenses, allocating resources, and budgeting teams. With control of computing and software resources, budgets, projects, and access, you can fully manage how your engineering teams utilize cloud computing. In addition, access to billing summaries and real time spending dashboards allow you to monitor your computing expenses. Rescale doesn’t only provide a solution to engineering inefficiencies, it gives management the insight to innovate their own research pipeline.
Rescale is a turn-key platform that enables access to limitless computing resources and over 300 ported and tuned softwares. With ScaleX Enterprise’s management dashboard, engineering departments are capable of fully managing and reporting on their HPC usage. Rescale has had significant impact on many of our customers; but to understand the true impact Rescale can have on your organization, it is best to reach out to us. With our confidential tools and industry leading knowledge, we can define the impact of Rescale on your engineering operations.
If you have any questions or interest in seeing how Rescale can improve your engineering department, please reach out to our specialists today.

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