Introduction
For decades, engineering teams have relied on simulation to accelerate research and development.
In principle, simulation should reduce the need for costly prototypes, shorten design cycles, and enable more confident decision-making.
In practice, however, many organizations find that their simulation tools create bottlenecks instead of removing them.
Traditional desktop-based solutions often require weeks of computation time to produce results, slowing down testing and forcing engineers to work around long delays.
Even when time is available, license and hardware restrictions frequently limit how many engineers can run simulations in parallel, leaving valuable resources idle while they wait for access.
This situation means that only a fraction of possible design variations ever get tested.
Engineers often have to prioritize a handful of “most likely” options, leaving many potentially better designs unexplored.