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OnScale and Lexma launch Moebius LBM CFD Solver for advanced fluid dynamics simulations

June 9, 2020 By WTWH Editor Leave a Comment

OnScale, a global leader in Cloud Engineering Simulation, announces the availability of the Moebius Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver on the OnScale Cloud Engineering Simulation platform.

“Moebius represents a step-change in CFD speed, power, and democratization for digital prototyping of devices involving fluid flows,” says David Freed, CTO of OnScale and a Digital Physicist with a 25-year track record of advancing LBM CFD technology at MIT, Exa Corporation, and Dassault Systѐmes. “Moebius running on the massively scalable OnScale Cloud Engineering Simulation platform will break barriers to innovation for a variety of applications such as lab-on-a-chip, MEMS, and medical diagnostic and treatment devices like next-generation ventilators and respirators.”

Airflow simulation in a UV sterilization chamber of an iPAP ventilator for COVID-19 patients.

Unlike Navier-Stokes CFD methods which simulate bulk fluid flow, LBM takes a kinetic theory approach to simulating fluid flows, which enables the simulation of complex biomedical and engineering problems, including multiphase flows (e.g. simulating control and management of multi-species droplets in microfluidic devices), particle transport (e.g. simulating sorting of blood and cancer tumor cells), and fluid-structure interaction (e.g. simulating efficient micro-scale actuators in MEMS applications). The resulting simulations provide unique insight and design guidance for engineers advancing new technologies.

Combining the power of the Moebius solver with the massive scalability of OnScale in the cloud enables both huge simulations and parallel execution of large numbers of simulations on cloud supercomputers.

“Integrating Moebius with the OnScale Cloud Engineering Simulation platform allows our team to focus on our mission – creating the world’s best LBM CFD solutions – while leveraging OnScale’s cloud supercomputer scalability and SimAPI for CAD import, model setup, data management, and viewing simulation results,” says Franck Pérot, CEO of Lexma Technologies. “We also get OnScale’s account management, billing, customer support, and marketing and sales automation features built-in.”

Fighting COVID-19 in Low-Income Countries: How Digital Prototyping Empowers Engineers to Advance the Design of Medical Devices

“With Moebius running on OnScale, we were able to optimize the design of our Intelligent Positive Air Pressure (iPAP) machine with UV disinfecting chamber,” says Shashi Buluswar, CEO of the Institute for Transformative Technology (ITT). “Using OnScale and Moebius to create Digital Prototypes of our device dramatically shortened our physical prototyping cost and time and allowed us to accelerate our goal of delivering critical iPAP devices to low-income countries to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Left to right: Simulation iterations from a suboptimal design to an optimized configuration of the iPAP UV sterilizer chamber.

A critical design and engineering aspect of the iPAP device is the UV disinfecting chamber, which is intended to disinfect up to 99.9% of the air exhaled from a COVID-19 patient’s lungs. The ITT team needed to minimize size, cost, and heat generated by the chamber while maximizing the amount of time air spends in it. The team used Moebius running on OnScale to simulate many “Digital Prototypes” of the disinfecting chamber and process until converging on a winning, manufacturable design.

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OnScale offers free online training courses for engineers working remotely

April 20, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

OnScale, a global leader in Cloud Engineering Simulation, released its free online training schedule for both current and new customers. The Cloud Engineering Simulation Specialization with OnScale comprises five free online training courses: Introduction to OnScale, MEMS Piezoelectric Simulation, Thermomechanical Simulation, Ultrasound Transducer Simulation, and Non-Destructive Testing Simulation.

All training classes will be executed remotely as scheduled and without disruption. Attendees will gain hands-on experience with OnScale so that they are ready to bring the power of cloud engineering simulation to their design workflow. All participants can get the OnScale software for free plus the cloud core-hours necessary to attend and run the simulations discussed during the classes.

Additionally, OnScale provides free cloud core-hours to customers to mitigate engineering productivity loss related to the coronavirus outbreak and will continue to provide customers with the support they need to maintain productivity.

OnScale offers hybrid local (fixed-license), private, and public cloud engineering simulation capability. “We became aware that some of our customers who had local licenses locked to desktop PCs or on private clouds could no longer access OnScale due to office closures. These engineers were told to work from home – but their computers and their engineering simulation software were locked in empty offices,” comments Ian Campbell, CEO of OnScale. “We believe many engineers will be looking at how to effectively work remotely, and the Cloud Engineering Simulation platform provided by OnScale together with the new free online training classes are a great way to keep them productive.”

The courses are suitable for anyone with an engineering, physics, or science background. Previous experience with the OnScale software is not required.

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OnScale raises $10 Million from Intel Capital and Gradient Ventures

April 1, 2019 By WTWH Editor Leave a Comment

OnScale, an emerging leader in Cloud-enabled engineering simulation software, announces $10M in Series A funding led by Intel Capital and Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture capital fund. Additional investors include Thornton Tomasetti, Stage 2 Capital, Cultivation Capital, and CampbellKlein.

OnScale, which has grown considerably since emerging from stealth in early 2018, will use the new investment to drive global expansion, respond to increasing demand, and accelerate development of its Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) solutions for complex, real-world engineering applications.

OnScale CAE tools are based on proprietary multiphysics solvers that were developed and validated over 30 years by one of the largest engineering consulting firms in the world for DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and large commercial customers. The CAE solvers were architected for highly parallel mainframe computers to handle very large engineering simulation problems and are a perfect fit for modern cloud-based, high-performance computing. OnScale was spun out of Thornton Tomasetti in 2017 and is led by Chief Executive Officer Ian Campbell, along with a strong leadership team with over 100 years of combined experience in CAE software.

The company has established a large and growing base of customers, including a number of Fortune 100 companies. OnScale gives engineers a wealth of design insights and highly accurate simulation results up to 100x faster than legacy CAE offerings. Current OnScale solutions address the simulation needs of Semiconductor and MEMS, 5G mobile, next-gen biomedical, infrastructure safety, and autonomous vehicle markets. The company is focusing on improving OnScale’s user interface, expanding the breadth of physics solver capabilities, and forming partnerships with other software companies to provide seamless engineering workflows.

“With strategic investors like Intel Capital and Google’s Gradient Ventures, OnScale is well positioned to help engineers of all disciplines solve their design challenges,” said Campbell. “Created for engineers, by engineers, our mission is to usher in the future of engineering. With this investment, we will continue to empower innovators who are creating the future of technology.”

“As technology systems become more complex, next-generation computer aided engineering software will become integral to design and deployment,” said Dave Flanagan, vice president and senior managing director at Intel Capital. “OnScale’s highly scalable CAE solution leverages the power of the cloud and advanced multiphysics to model highly complex systems, helping customers solve the toughest design challenges”. Investment Director Arun Chetty will join OnScale’s board.

“Leaps in technology require paradigm shifts in engineering, and the combination of world-class multiphysics solvers, AI, and highly scalable cloud-based HPC provide an opportunity for such a paradigm shift in how we create world-changing technologies. That is why we’re excited to welcome OnScale and its team of software experts to the Gradient portfolio.” said Zach Bratun, Partner, Gradient Ventures.

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OnScale emerges from stealth to unveil Cloud Solver Platform

May 24, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

OnScale recently released its a solver-as-a-service platform called OnScale Cloud.
The platform addresses demand for computer-aided engineering (CAE) and cloud computing resources to solve engineering challenges in areas such as, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), sensors, biomedical and smart car industries, according to Ian Campbell, OnScale’s chief executive officer.

“The CAE/HPC space is ripe for disruption because yesterday’s systems are too expensive and cumbersome to solve tomorrow’s engineering problems,” Campbell said. “Our platform eliminates the risk associated with sequential trial-and-error physical prototyping, reduces design cycles from months to weeks or even days, and delivers unequaled computing performance that easily scales to meet ever-changing CAE workloads.”

The company initially targeting underserved market verticals, worth $4 billion, with heavy demand for advanced computer-aided engineering and high-performance computing (HPC), Campbell said. OnScale will initially focus on the following market segments:

5G – RF Filters and RF switches for 5G smartphones and base stations.
IoT and IIoT – Microphone arrays for Alexa-style IoT devices, motion and gesture sensors, biometric and fingerprint sensors and industrial sensor systems.
BioMed – Advanced therapies, targeted treatment planning and consumer ultrasound.
Driverless Car Systems – Driverless car sensing technologies like 3D ultrasound for object classification, driver and passenger monitoring.

The company’s SaaS platform combines CAE multi-physics solvers with a scalable cloud HPC platform. OnScale gives individual engineers, small engineering design teams, and multinational engineering firms cost effective computational power, agility, and scalability through a pay-as-you-go subscription model, Campbell said.

OnScale charges engineers for actual solver time, measured in core-hours. For example, a solve that requires a 16-core HPC and 30 minutes to solve would consume eight core hours. Engineers can use as many HPC instances as they like to solve massive optimization studies in parallel. This means engineers who use OnScale Cloud and the companies they work for don’t buy new CAE software licenses, pay for maintenance and support, procure expensive HPC hardware, or wait for IT to deploy and maintain CAE systems, Campbell added.

OnScale Cloud is offered in three monthly subscriptions, all with a bundle of core-hours included, for discounted, on-demand pricing:
Free: Any engineer can begin using OnScale for free and receive ten core-hours, per month without commitment. Ten core-hours is sufficient to perform many simulations of simple devices. Additional on-demand core-hours can be purchased with a credit card for $10 per core-hour.
Professional: The Professional OnScale Cloud subscription is $300 per month and includes 50 core-hours, which opens up simulation of more complicated designs and parametric design studies. Additional on-demand core-hours can be purchased for $9 per core-hour at the Professional subscription level.
Team: The Team OnScale Cloud subscription is $1,000 per month and includes 200 core-hours, enough for a small engineering team to optimize next-generation devices. Additional on-demand core-hours can be purchased for $7 per core-hour at the Team subscription level.

In addition to these subscription levels, OnScale also provides discounts for annual subscriptions and flexible subscription programs for small, medium, and large enterprises, Campbell said.

“OnScale was built for engineers, by engineers,” he said. “We’ve experienced the restrictive nature of legacy CAE tools ourselves, so we designed OnScale tools to help engineers at Fortune 100 companies and startups alike remove cost and compute constraints.”
In March, the company emerged from its stealth position and announced $3 million in strategic seed funding. Campbell founded the company along with Robbie Banks, vice president of product development, and Gerry Harvey, vice president of engineering. OnScale is a spin-off of the company Thornton Tomasetti.

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