“The CFD simulations I run are crucial to understanding aircraft aerodynamics, performance and safety. With tens of millions of data points, they used to take up to 12 hours on my in-house cluster. I would set up a simulation and let it run overnight and hope it would be finished …

“Our unit is charged with providing the most advanced analysis by using Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics – tackling the most difficult challenges facing oil and gas customers. That’s why high-performance computing is so important. Unfortunately, our infrastructure just wasn’t up to the task,”