Fredericton, NB, Canada. Envenio and Pointwise Inc. have signed a co-licensing agreement to offer their respective products—EXN/Aero and Pointwise—on-demand on HPC cloud-host Nimbix. This agreement represents a step-change in the way CFD engineers can access and utilize high-performance meshing and simulation tools.
The move is expected to help engineering consultants who face CFD limitations that affect their ability to compete and perform simulations for clients without adversely affecting their cash-flow.
Traditional commercial tools and traditional compute resources have previously been inflexible and expensive, restricting flexibility of consultants and potentially limiting the services they can offer clients. Costly annual licensing subscriptions are now a thing of the past, thanks to new on-demand pay-as- you-go tools, the companies reported.
By being able to access on-demand meshing, simulation, and post-processing tools, engineers can expand their service offering, exceed client expectations, and keep up with their competition.
Being able to list end-to-end CFD services in marketing and proposal materials also enables consultants to compete with larger organizations. Moreover, engineers are able to
- upsell existing clients on larger or more complex models,
- offer a higher through-put of meshes and simulations to prospective clients,
- offer shorter turn-around times on simulations,
- upsell existing customers on high resolution meshes/models,
- supplement their existing meshing and simulation workflows using the on-demand tools for additional or more challenging runs,
- bid more competitively on projects, and
- provision compute resources on the fly to scale with customer demands.
“We are delighted to have teamed up with Pointwise Inc.,” said Envenio vice presieent Scott Walton. “We share many of the same values, and are absolutely passionate about ensuring engineering consultants have access to the best CFD tools. This alliance reflects our overall mission to break down barriers and limitations that can prohibit the work of consultants, providing them with flexible access to software that has historically only been available to the largest corporations and organizations. We have used Pointwise internally for over seven years and believe it is the highest performance meshing tool available,” he added.
“This is our first foray into cloud-based preprocessing so we are happy to have an experienced team like Envenio by our side,” said Dr. Rick Matus, Pointwise executive vice president. “At first we were skeptical about getting the graphics performance needed for a highly interactive product like Pointwise while working with a remote cloud-server. Our testing with Envenio in the Nimbix environment showed very good results. Users should enjoy the flexibility of on-demand meshing combined with Pointwise’s ease-of-use and high-quality. We are excited to join Envenio in providing this to the engineering community.”
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