Case Study
NASCAR’s Richard Childress Racing Finds On-Track Advantage in the Cloud
The Rescale Solution Full-body aerodynamic analysis requires that models be quite large at up to 400 million cells, which takes thousands of compute cores to process in a reasonable time. Bringing HPC in-house was infeasible due to the capital investment and HPC expertise required to set up and manage it. Additionally, RCR recognized that computing hardware performance improves significantly year-to-year and did not want to be locked into using an outdated system after a couple of years. RCR considered various HPC options, but felt that Rescale’s wide hardware selection and pay-as-you-go pricing model would scale with their needs, giving them the flexibility to start small and ramp up to full production. RCR uses ANSYS Fluent, which is natively-integrated, benchmarked, and opt