Benchmark as decision support for cloudification: Moving CAE and HPC to the cloud increases quality and efficiency of simulations

A decision in favor of the cloud and the associated organizational changes are of central strategic importance for automotive OEMs and their suppliers. In advance, it is important to clarify whether existing organizational structures and processes can actually be optimized with the help of the cloud. To this end, we regularly carry out benchmarks for well-known customers as a decision-making aid. In the presentation, we will present a benchmark with real productive jobs based on existing data in the customer's specific environment. Mapping the workflow with selected CAE applications in the cloud provided a realistic basis for evaluation of their benefits and costs. In addition to comparing runtimes and results of selected benchmark jobs, our experts tested the quality of remote work in a workstation scenario for selected finite element analyses (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses (CFD) and iterative analyses.