Rescaling the Future of HPC and Simulation

Title: "Rescaling the Future of HPC and Simulation"

Presenter: Joris Poort, CEO and Founder of Rescale

Short bio: Prior to founding Rescale, Joris worked as an associate at McKinsey & Company consulting on product development engagements in the high-tech sector. Joris began his career at Boeing, where he worked for four years as a structural and software engineer on the 787 program, optimizing the design of the tail and wings.

Joris holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics magna cum laude from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Applied Mathematics magna cum laude from the University of Michigan

Abstract: Rescale’s cloud simulation platform is the world’s leading solution for the secure deployment of simulation software and high performance computing (HPC) solutions in the enterprise. The platform is deployed securely and seamlessly to global teams via the web browser in an application environment built for engineers and scientists backed by the largest commercially available HPC backbone. Rescale’s customers enjoy a significant simulation advantage over their competition through the agility to seamlessly scale both software and hardware solutions based on internal demand. Users of the simulation platform experience numerous benefits, including, increased efficiency of IT resources and capex reductions, faster design cycles with dramatically improved time to market, and superior product designs through increased simulation accuracy and integration of simulation processes.

Rescale is an enterprise software company funded by numerous top-tier venture investors including Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Peter Thiel--the founders of Amazon, Virgin and Paypal, respectively. Rescale has a global set of partners and customers that utilizes Rescale's technology to improve how simulation is utilized for anything from Formula 1 cars to spacecraft to drug development with a customer base including Fortune Global 500 enterprises across numerous sectors from aerospace, automotive, life science to energy verticals.