Case Study: NOV achieves rapid engineering productivity and major HPC cost savings with Rescale

NOV Goes All-In on Cloud HPC With Rescale to Unlock Engineering Productivity & Manage Growth

NOV, a global leader in oil & gas and renewable energy, relied on compute-heavy CAE simulation to design pumps, regulators, and drill heads but ran into severe on-premises HPC limits—at times a 300+ day job backlog and growing IT support bottlenecks. To regain agility and support expanding R&D across 600+ locations, NOV evaluated cloud HPC and selected Rescale’s ScaleX platform to deliver on-demand, multi-cloud compute and application management.

Rescale implemented ScaleX to provide optimized hardware per workload, manage software like ABAQUS, STAR-CCM+, and Ansys, and automate license and application lifecycle management. The result was dramatic: 95% faster cloud HPC deployment (from months to days), 100% software license utilization, 80%+ reduction in upfront HPC costs, and removal of the simulation backlog—unlocking faster time-to-market and new initiatives such as AI-driven predictive maintenance and digital twins with Rescale.

NOV

Matthew Robinson

Engineering Systems Administrator