Accelerating Aerospace Innovation: High Performance Computing (HPC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This article explores how High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS is accelerating aerospace innovation by providing flexible, efficient computational resources for complex engineering tasks.

• Traditional on-premises HPC infrastructure has long deployment times and fixed capacity, while AWS offers instant, scalable computational resources
• Key aerospace HPC workloads include:
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Structural Analysis
  • Mission Planning and Space Operations
• AWS HPC toolkit includes services like:
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Parallel Computing Service
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre
• Customer success stories highlight significant improvements:
  • Hypersonix reduced simulation pipeline time by 92%
  • Boom Supersonic increased productivity 6x

AWS provides scalable, high-performance computing solutions that enable aerospace organizations to innovate faster and more efficiently.