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Inductiva joined the 1st OpenFOAM HPC Challenge to test how cloud infrastructure stacks up against traditional HPC for large-scale CFD simulations. Running the DrivAer automotive benchmark, the team explored multiple hardware setups, hyperthreading choices, and domain decomposition strategies. The results? Inductiva’s flexible MPI clusters handled up to 768 partitions with impressive price-performance—even outperforming pricier hardware in some cases. For simulations below massive supercomputer scales, cloud HPC proves not only competitive but cost-effective, offering engineers and researchers agility without sacrificing speed. Curious how to fine-tune your OpenFOAM workloads in the cloud? Dive into the benchmarks and see what’s possible.

Luís Sarmento

Everyone’s talking about LLMs, but the real next wave is AI for the physical world—AI that understands fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and even quantum physics. From breakthroughs like DeepMind’s AlphaFold in protein folding to NVIDIA’s AI weather forecasting, industries from renewable energy to materials science are being transformed. But experimental data isn’t always enough; numerical simulations are crucial to generate high-quality datasets that power scientific AI. At Inductiva.AI, we’re offering a computational platform to democratize physics dataset generation, combining open-source simulators with cloud HPC, making it as easy as running a Python script. Explore how AI and scientific computing are converging—and what it means for the future of innovation.

Hugo Penedones

The Inductiva API v0.5 release brings two New Simulators, Up-to-date GCP pricing information, additional features on Command Line Interface, more Metrics and Benchmarks, a Template Manager and more revamped Documentation. Additionally we are open sourcing all the scientific software containers we are using in our backend - Project KUTU.

Hugo Penedones

Luís Sarmento

The Inductiva API v0.4 release brings MPI clusters, the latest Google Cloud CPUs, two new simulators, a lighter Python package, a CLI interface, a template engine and totally revamped documentation. Get started in minutes!

Hugo Penedones

Luís Sarmento

Coastal engineering projects protect the coast from erosion, flooding and other events. Due to their cost, the design phase of these projects is heavily based on computational simulations. In this blog post, we enlighten how Inductiva API allowed researchers to scale their coastal engineering simulations.

Ivan Pombo

Luís Sarmento