NAFEMS Americas and Digital Engineering (DE) teamed up (once again) to present CAASE, the (now Virtual) Conference on Advancing Analysis & Simulation in Engineering, on June 16-18, 2020!

CAASE20 brought together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum, unlike any other, to share experiences, discuss relevant trends, discover common themes, and explore future issues, including:
-What is the future for engineering analysis and simulation?
-Where will it lead us in the next decade?
-How can designers and engineers realize its full potential?
What are the business, technological, and human enablers that will take past successful developments to new levels in the next ten years?

Resource Abstract

The traditional paradigm of the All On-Prem HPC Infrastructure is being challenged today by HPC on the Public Cloud. With the largest IT Players on the planet like AWS, Miccorsoft Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle investing heavily in the space, the question of "Will the Cloud ever Work for HPC?" should really be changed to "Why are you waiting for Cloud HPC to Work? It already does!"

In fact, Cloud based HPC has been working successfully for a number of years now, because, in reality, One person's Cloud is another person's Data Center. Cloud based HPC removes the constraints that are imposed by Fiscal Year Budgets, IT Infrastructure organizations and Physical Data Center facilities and locations in a traditional On-Prem environment. This leads to "Choke Points" in the Product Development Process (PDP) where a fixed HPC hardware core count, software license limitations and CAE software license queuing systems ultimately dictate the productivity of CAE Simulation Engineers and Analysts adversely impacting Product Development Process timelines and finally, Time to Market.

The real question to be asked is "What Engineering Challenges could you tackle with Unlimited Access to Compute?" If you could perform more simulations in a given time window of the PDP could you

* Improve Product performance by 10 to 20%?

* Further Lightweight your product without compromise?

* Improve Fuel Economy or Extend Battery Powered Vehicle Ranges?

* Accelerate Product Innovation and "First Mover" Competitive Advantage?

In this presentation we will cover:



* A brief history of Cloud based HPC

* Basic components needed to provide a viable Cloud based HPC environment

* CAE Simulation workloads best suited for Cloud Based HPC

* The Economics of Cloud Based HPC

* A View from the Simulation ISV perspective

* Cloud HPC 2.0 - The Bare Metal Elastic HPC Cloud

* Some Case Studies and Success Stories

* Where do we go from here?

* Q&A