How a leading aerospace engineering organization migrated mission-critical Ansys workloads from on-premises infrastructure to a secure, scalable AWS GovCloud platform powered by AWS Research & Engineering Studio.
A leading aerospace and space technology organization sought to modernize its engineering simulation environment by migrating from a traditional on-premises tower-based HPC infrastructure running Ansys workloads to a secure, scalable cloud-native platform.
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Customer Challenges
The customer's existing engineering environment faced several operational and technical limitations:
Solution
Relevance Lab implemented a private deployment of AWS Research & Engineering Studio (RES) in AWS GovCloud, integrated with enterprise identity services and high-performance storage.
The solution provided:
- Cloud-hosted engineering workstations
- Elastic HPC clusters powered by AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)
- Centralized identity and access management
- Integrated Ansys license management
- Shared high-performance storage using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- Automated user onboarding and desktop provisioning
- Secure remote access through VPN and controlled network boundaries
Target Architecture
The engineering environment was built around AWS Research & Engineering Studio, providing engineers with virtual desktops connected to scalable HPC resources and shared storage.
Key Capabilities
- Linux and Windows engineering desktops
- Pre-installed engineering applications
- Shared engineering datasets
- Integration with Active Directory
- Elastic HPC cluster provisioning
- License server integration
- Automated AMI management pipelines
Relevance Lab Implementation Approach
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- Migrate HPC and engineering workloads to AWS
- Deploy secure Research & Engineering Studio (RES) environments
- Scale compute resources on demand
- Integrate enterprise identity and access controls