Case Study: NOV accelerates engineering and clears HPC bottlenecks with Rescale

NOV clears a 300+ day simulation backlog in 7 days with Rescale

NOV, a global leader in the oil, gas, and renewable energy sectors, faced significant engineering bottlenecks as its aging on-premises HPC infrastructure could not keep pace with growing simulation demands, leading to a backlog of over 300 days. To maintain its competitive advantage in R&D and manage its expansion, NOV turned to the vendor Rescale to evaluate its cloud HPC solution as a flexible alternative to physical hardware.

Rescale provided its ScaleX platform, enabling on-demand access to optimized HPC resources across multiple cloud providers within seven days. This solution allowed NOV to run different workloads on the most cost-effective hardware, such as computational fluid dynamics on Azure. By using Rescale, NOV eliminated its backlog, accelerated its simulation processes, and improved software license utilization, transforming its HPC operations from a bottleneck into an accelerator for company-wide R&D projects and new initiatives like AI and digital twins.

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