Software maker for the plastics industry, Autodesk Moldflow has granted users the ability to harness the processing might of the cloud on-demand with its Moldflow Insight offering that can now be pushed out to Amazon’s EC2 for extra power. This is a particularly useful advantage for the plastics industry as its simulation and modeling needs are not constant and are instead based on bursts, making them ideal candidates for the “cloudbursting” ability. While the effort is still in beta and is only being offered to a select number of clients, if successful, this will mark new territory for the plastics industry as well as for cloud computing. Other software vendors are looking to provide additional power via cloud because, as Autodesk Modlflow states, “the industry was already headed in many ways, with efforts toward distributed processing and cluster computing already underway…this was users can minimize their upfront costs in terms of hardware and study more detailed models than they’ve ever been able to.”
Cloud Computing Comes to Plastic Molding Simulation
May 24, 2010