Running engineering workloads on AWS lets iterate through your design space fast

That’s because Amazon EC2 isn’t just fast - it’s super-versatile. More than 500 compute instance types means you can match each elements of your pipeline to exactly the right compute. When you’re able to tune every element like this, everything gets faster and you save money not having hardware idle waiting for another part of the pipeline.

Some key pieces of technology make this possible.

  • Amazon EC2 provides the raw compute resources, like CPUs, GPUs and memory.
  • FSx for Lustre and FSx for OpenZFS high-speed parallel filesystems that safely store all your data in whatever form you need it.
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter connects every piece with an network designed for scientific, engineering, and machine learning workloads.

Finally, AWS ParallelCluster brings all of this together into clusters you can easily create, scale, duplicate and retire - all inside your security perimeter.

Getting hands on, with help

The HPC team Running Hexagon CAE applications The purpose of this workshop is to help you to run your Hexagon (MSC) applications on AWS. We’ll go from creating the HPC cluster using AWS ParallelCluster, to the installation of the codes such as Cradle CFD, MSC Nastran, Marc, Actran, Simufact etc. and finally example submission scripts for you to run your own cases.