Industry’s first solver-as-a-service, OnScale Cloud, now generally available

By Jean-Jacques DeLisle, contributing writer

OnScale, a leading computer-aided engineering (CAE) and cloud high-performance computing (HPC) provider, has announced general availability of its new solver-as-a-service (SaaS) platform — OnScale Cloud. This on-demand availability of high-performance CAE tools and computing services comes in response to a rapidly rising demand for such technologies. The demand for the new technology comes from many different places including in 5G RF, Internet of Things (IoT)/Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors, biomedical, and smart car industries.

OnScale Cloud is now generally available. Image source: OnScale.

The new SaaS service platform will allow individual engineers, boutique engineering design teams, and multinational engineering firms to solve next-generation problems by giving them access to cost-effective computational power, agility, and scalability through a novel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pay-as-you-go subscription model. This platform opens doors for many developers to have access to CAE for the first time and could have implications all over the world. The OnScale Cloud platform is not only for wealthy tech companies; its pay-as-you-go model includes free options so that engineers from all over the world can have access to what it has to offer and develop new, better products for the future.

“OnScale was built for engineers, by engineers,” said Ian Campbell, CEO of OnScale. “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. Our early beta customer success confirms the pent-up demand within the engineering community for a better way to design the future of 5G, IoT and IIoT, biomedical, and driverless car products.”

The OnScale Solver-as-a-Service Platform is designed to combine sophisticated CAE multiphysics solvers and the nearly limitless computing power of cloud HPC to remove many of the performance and cost constraints of legacy CAE/HPC. The new technology also reduces design cycles from months to weeks or even days and can be used by engineers to deliver never-before-seen solver performance that can easily be scaled to meet the ever-changing workload that is inherent in CAE platforms.  

We can expect to see the new OnScale Cloud platform being used by many companies in the coming months and years. No doubt, other SaaS platforms will arise in response to this new development as the tech war rages on and companies scramble for the next big thing, but for now, OnScale is making history and allowing engineers all the way from the biggest companies to the smallest startups access to powerful tools that will undoubtedly shape the future of us all.