The document discusses how high-tech product development is becoming more complex due to trends like miniaturization and increased connectivity. This rising complexity is driving increased investment in simulation software by companies to help address challenges. Simulation allows companies to test thousands of design variations virtually before building physical prototypes, helping accelerate innovation. The document advocates that partnerships between simulation software companies and high performance computing cloud providers can help companies access greater computing resources to perform large-scale simulations and reduce product development time.

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Accelerating Innovation Through
HPC-Enabled Simulations
Wim Slagter, PhD
Director, HPC & Cloud Alliances
Science & Innovation 2017

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High-Tech Product Development is Continuing to Evolve,
Creating Challenges and Opportunities
Miniaturization
Mobility and
Wireless
Connectivity
Faster
Communication
Power
Efficiency
Embedded
Software

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Industry is Compelled to Act with Ambition and Urgency
Environmental
Regulation
Customer Demand for
“Green” Products
Operational Cost and
Waste Reduction

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Market Trends Are Driving Investment in Automotive Business

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More of the Same is Not an Option
• Existing products already operate with a very fine robustness margin.
• More of the same is not an option.
• Breakthrough innovation is required!

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With Innovation Comes an Exponential Increase in Design
Complexity and Options
“Strict emissions standards coupled with
customer demand for fuel efficiency has led to a
complex control system architecture.”
Wayne Eckerle
VP Research & Technology
Existing products are becoming more complex Disruptive products are being
developed outside of incumbent
design practices and constraints
To bring an energy efficient disruptive product to
market, Nebia needed to analyze hundreds of
thousands of variables in its shower head design

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Simulation is the Only Practical Solution for Large and Small
Businesses to Address the Rise in Complexity
Simulation is the only way “…to address the unsustainable time
and cost of physical testing requirements of increasingly complex,
software driven systems”
UK Center for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles
When simulation was introduced into
the design process “suddenly engineers
could study 12 design iterations per day
instead of spending a week on one
physical test of a single prototype”
Gabriel Parisi-Amon
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Nebia, Inc

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Simulation has become pervasive
Source: The Aberdeen Group

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What is Driving Investments in Simulation?
Source: Aberdeen Group, Utilizing Simulation to Drive Innovation and Top-Line Growth, January 2016

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Some of our customers are the
most innovative on the planet

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Unlocking Future Innovation
ANSYS and General Electric Unlock Future Innovation with New Collaboration Agreement
"We have employed the power of ANSYS simulation for over two decades to
confidently design and analyze our products and quickly bring them to market."
- Christopher Lorence, general manager of engineering technologies, GE Aviation
PITTSBURGH, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) and GE Aviation are
deepening their long-standing strategic relationship by establishing a new joint technology
collaboration agreement that will help solve future engineering challenges and drive product
development processes in a world of smart products and big data. Both organizations
recognize the value of cutting-edge research and are jointly aligned in their desire to spur
innovation by creatively applying simulation to the manufacturing and industrial space……
Large Eddy Simulation of the combustion chamber of a
GE Aviation engine. Image courtesy of GE Aviation.

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Minimizing the Time in Optimizing Designs
“Pushing the limits of design can be
time-consuming and expensive when
you're talking about building a physical
model.”
“Simulation helps us investigate
numerous degrees of freedom and
minimize the time involved
in optimizing our designs”.
- Jimmy Lirvat, Head of Aerodynamic
Research Team, Dyson

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Getting Launch Systems to Market Faster
“By demonstrating that our
technology works, simulation is
helping us to obtain regulatory
approvals and get to space faster”
- Thomas Markusic, Founder,
Firefly Space Systems

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Our Most Innovative Customers Are Rapidly
Deploying Simulation
“Every Engineer Will Use Simulation”
2005 2015 2020
1 in 22 1 in 6 ALL

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Digital Platform for Scaling the Deployment of Simulation
Multiphysics
Simulation
Systems
Engineering
Robust
Design
Simulation
Democratization
Digital
Twin
Simulation Trends Consolidated Simulation Platform
Open Cloud Platform

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Drivers for HPC-Enabled Simulations on the Cloud
Tools
Standardization
Improve ROI on IT
Investments
Compute Demands vs.
Budget/Time/IT Constraints
$
IT?
Burst Capacity Needs vs.
Lack of Resources
Collaborative Needs
for Distributed Teams

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Drivers for HPC-Enabled Simulations on the Cloud
Tools
Standardization
Improve ROI on IT
Investments
Compute Demands vs.
Budget/Time/IT Constraints
$
IT?
Burst Capacity Needs vs.
Lack of Resources
Collaborative Needs
for Distributed Teams
Accelerate Innovation

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Reducing Development Time
“Using ANSYS Fluent software and Gompute
HPC cloud resources, we reached the
accuracy level our clients required for our
turbulence and heat transfer calculations.
Thus we have been able to implement real
modifications on their equipment and
thoroughly optimize our designs in a shorter
period of time.”
- José Maria Cancer, CEO/CFO and Partner,
KeelWit Technology
Image courtesy of MadridFly

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Partnerships are Crucial for Reaching New HPC Heights

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Partnerships are Crucial for Reaching New HPC Heights

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Relying Less on Costly Physical Testing
“The efficiency, reliability and the accuracy
of the results we get from ANSYS enable us
to rely less on costly and time-consuming
physical testing and more on simulation.”
- Nathan Sykes, CFD and FEA Tools Team
Leader, Red Bull Racing

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