Automotive, aerospace, semiconductors and other manufacturing industries face growing challenges to reduce design cycle times and costs; satisfy global regulations on safety and environmental concerns; and respond to customers who demand high-quality, well-designed products. The need for production-deployment of application software and Linux clusters for high-fidelity CAE and EDA simulations have become critical tools in the design path of product development.

Panasas® ActivStor Parallel Storage provides a unified storage infrastructure to improve HPC workflow efficiencies for CAE and EDA applications in Manufacturing. The combination of scalable HPC application software and Panasas parallel storage for Linux clusters, provides new and significant productivity advantages for the full range of engineering disciplines. Recent tests conducted by Panasas and various ISV alliance partners demonstrate workflow benefits that include performance gains in simulation scalability and job through-put, and pre- and post-processing of solution results—and with dramatic improvements in cost-performance.