REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 11,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle announced today that Nissan
Motor Co., Ltd is migrating its on-premises, high-performance
computing (HPC) workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Nissan
relies on a digital product design process to make quick and
critical design decisions to improve the fuel efficiency,
reliability and safety of its cars. By moving its performance and
latency sensitive-engineering simulation workloads to Oracle Cloud,
Nissan will be able to speed the design and testing of new
cars.
Specifically, Nissan uses software-based Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) and structural simulation techniques to design and
test cars for external aerodynamics and structural failures. Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure's compute, networking, and storage services
optimized for HPC applications will allow Nissan to benefit from
the industry's first and only bare-metal HPC solution with RDMA
networking as it innovates cars. Nissan anticipates higher
performance and lowers costs with the ability to easily run their
engineering simulation workloads in the cloud.
"Nissan is a leader in adopting cloud-based high performance
computing for large scale workloads such as safety and CFD
simulations," said Bing Xu, General Manager, Engineering Systems
Department, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. "We selected Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure's HPC solutions to meet the challenges of increased
simulation demand under constant cost savings pressure. I believe
Oracle will bring significant ROI to Nissan."
Running large CFD and structural simulations requires tremendous
amounts of compute power. Nissan has adopted a cloud-first strategy
for its HPC platform to ensure its engineers always have the
compute capacity needed to run their complex simulations. While the
HPC market has been traditionally underserved by public cloud
providers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers an industry-first
Intel Xeon based bare-metal compute infrastructure with RDMA
cluster networking, offering latencies of under two microseconds
and 100 Gbps bandwidth, enabling large scale HPC migrations to the
cloud.
Nissan is one of the first automotive OEMs to leverage GPU
technology in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for structural simulation
and remote visualization. By using Oracle's bare-metal
GPU-accelerated hardware, Nissan reduces the cost and overhead of
large data transfer, while ensuring that all the data generated by
simulation jobs can easily be viewed in 3D OpenGL format in the
cloud.
In addition to HPC workloads, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
supports a mature and diverse ISV application ecosystem across
different domains such as CFD and structural simulation. This helps
deliver a price/performance ratio that is more compelling than
running on-premises or compared to other public cloud providers.
Oracle's unique cloud HPC solutions enable customers to run
performance intensive HPC jobs on demand instead of having to buy
fixed, on-premises capacity. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,
Nissan can launch tens of thousands of cores and GPU-based high-end
visualization servers with tremendous flexibility, enabling them to
dynamically change compute and remote 3D visualization based on the
needs of its engineers.
"Oracle is excited to work alongside Nissan to change digital
product design and development, and help them build the next
generation of award-winning vehicles," said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure. "Our mission has always been to build the
best cloud infrastructure for enterprises, including
computationally intensive and extremely latency sensitive workloads
that organizations like Nissan need to build the next generation of
vehicles."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
workloads
- Read the blog about Oracle's HPC momentum
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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