Case Study: AGC Inc. achieves 3× faster, secure hybrid‑cloud HPC simulations with Rescale

AGC Unleashes Potential with HPC in the Cloud

AGC Inc., one of the world’s largest glass and ceramics producers, faced escalating demands to run highly compute‑intensive, multi‑step simulation workflows from molecular to system scale while complying with strict global IT and security policies. AGC needed to extend on‑premise high‑performance computing (HPC) to the cloud without disrupting users, minimize WAN data movement, manage complex software licensing and updates, and enable future machine learning and deep learning workflows.

Rescale delivered a secure, end‑to‑end multi‑cloud HPC platform that integrated AGC Inc.’s on‑premise environment with cloud providers, offering SSO, delegated administration, BYOL/on‑demand licensing, cloud visualization, location‑aware APIs and container readiness for ML/DL. The result: engineers run simulations faster and at scale—achieving a 3X performance speed‑up and cutting STAR‑CCM+ runs from 40 hours to 10 minutes—while gaining on‑demand resource allocation, simpler IT control, optimized applications, and measurable improvements in time‑to‑results thanks to Rescale.

AGC Inc.

Atsuto Hashimoto

Manager