Case Study: Spike Aerospace achieves 100% CFD cloud migration and major cost and time savings with Rescale

Supersonic Simulations in the Cloud: Spike Aerospace Migrates All CFD to the Cloud

Spike Aerospace, developer of the S-512 supersonic business jet, faced prohibitive capital and time costs running hundreds of large-scale CFD simulations on traditional on‑premise HPC. To avoid heavy upfront infrastructure, license fees, and lengthy IT optimization, Spike partnered with Rescale and migrated 100% of their CFD workflow to the Rescale platform, using the natively integrated STAR‑CCM+ and Rescale’s Nickel hardware configuration.

Rescale delivered a turn‑key cloud HPC solution that handled CAD prep through post‑processing on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis, allowing Spike to be operational in weeks instead of months. By running 32M‑cell aerodynamic models on 64‑core Nickel instances, Spike eliminated queue delays, dramatically reduced runtimes, cut capital expenditure on servers and licenses, enabled real‑time global collaboration, and strengthened data security — all achieved through Rescale’s cloud platform.

Spike Aerospace

Anutosh Moitra

Chief Engineer