Why Architecture Matters in Automotive Engineering and Simulation

Presentation by Rick Knoechel, Global Strategy Lead, Automotive and Discrete Manufacturing at AMD as part of Altair's Future.Industry 2024 conference.

Expensive tires won’t help a slow car win races. By the same token, commercial CAE software is only as effective as the hardware it runs on. In this talk, Rick Knoechel will explore how computer architecture impacts a system’s speed, throughput, reliability, and longevity, and will discuss what questions to ask when considering your hardware investment.

Will a Ferrari run slower with a Kia engine? Of course. In the same way, your valuable CAE design software will run better for you if you choose the right system to run it on. In this talk, Rick Knoechel will explore how computer architecture impacts a system’s speed, throughput, reliability, and longevity, and will discuss what questions to ask when considering your hardware investment.

It’s not just the tires, the body, the engine, or the driver that wins an F1 championship. It’s these components working together. Likewise, when investing in commercial CAE software for simulation and modeling, you need to consider the capability of the system you’ll run it on. Speed, throughput, reliability and support all play a role. In this talk, Rick Knoechel will explore how computer architecture impacts each of these vectors and what questions to ask when considering your hardware investment.