PBS Works combined with Altair PBS Professional™ delivers a modern, intuitive framework for resource provisioning, workload management and scheduling, and remote visualization, notification, and collaboration.Īccess to high-performance computing power has become a necessity to remain competitive in the computer aided design and engineering fields. Our users are submitting and reviewing jobs exactly like they did on their own workstations - so it was not a leap at all.” - Rod Giles It is fully backed and supported by Altair, a recognized leader in HPC solutions. HyperWorks Unlimited: Designed to Serve CAE Engineers, Not BurdenĪltair HyperWorks Unlimited is a fully-managed appliance that reduces the time and cost to enable HPC for high-end engineering-it makes it easier and more affordable for engineering organizations of all sizes to adopt HPC systems. Royal Enfield is doing more simulations today, which is reducing development time, injecting innovation, and helping them develop better products for their customers. Royal Enfield has found that this solution is allowing them to move to the “the next level in their simulation journey.” Royal Enfield reported significant increases in productivity (run times 15X faster),1 and much more efficient product development (number of prototypes decreased by up to 25%).1 Cost savings have been significant as well, from reductions in software licensing, and removing the need to buy and maintain high-end desktop (workstation) machines. We have been delighted with how reliable it has been at making us more productive, without being a burden to manage.” - Rod Giles In a two-day period, our Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance was in production and the team fully trained. The resulting leap in capabilities for Royal Enfield enables significantly more competitive engineering for their motorcycles. The day-to-day work for the IT department is minimal, as the system is well managed by Altair. The web-based interfaces for users to submit and review jobs are the same they have used with workstations, so adoption was trivial. Intel technology powers the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance that enables Royal Enfield to dramatically increase their productivity.įacing increased demand for compute cycles, Royal Enfield found the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited to be an outstanding solution. The Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance was easy to adopt, and it removed the business-limiting bottleneck that a workstation-based approach had become.” - Rod Giles It offers unlimited use of all Altair HyperWorks applications, plus Altair PBS Works HPC workload management software. Designed specifically for CAE engineers, this pre-configured hardware/software solution is a true plug-and-play solution for HPC. The effort had long been estimated to be far too much for a workstation-based CAE team to consider given the setup and administrative burden of typical HPC systems and appliances.Īnalysis time on workstations had become extremely long, and that was severely hampering our ability to improve and influence our designs.” - Rod Giles, Head of CAE & CAD, Royal EnfieldĪltair HyperWorks Unlimited is a fully managed appliance that reduces the time and cost to enable full scale HPC for engineering. The negative business implications of not delivering more compute to CAE efforts were substantial.Ĭontemplating a move to HPC meant facing a myriad of software and hardware purchases, and management of the same. This was severely hampering the ability for Royal Enfield to improve and influence the design of their motorcycles. Royal Enfield utilizes Altair OptiStruct™ for non-linear implicit FE analysis, and Altair Radioss™ for explicit FE analysis.Īnalysis time on workstations, especially for complex dynamic events, had become extremely long. Their engineers utilized workstations and are supported by a dedicated but small IT team.įinite-element (FE) models for motorcycle designs require extensive processing for doing structural analysis. High performance computing (HPC) with workstations, specifically computer-aided engineering (CAE), has been a critical part of motorcycle design work at Royal Enfield for the better part of two decades. Recently, the Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 won India’s most prestigious two-wheeler award, the Indian Motorcycle of the Year (IMOTY) award. Royal Enfield has been making motorcycles continuously since 1901, longer than any other company.
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