Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering.
HPE will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as a service to Toyo Tire.
Toyo Tire hopes that the expanded compute power will reduce the time needed for its complex and parameter-rich large-scale design simulations used to train its AI models.
“Toyo Tire continues to demonstrate innovation in tire engineering and development using high-performance computing,” said Hirokazu Mochizuki, senior vice president and managing director for HPE Japan. “We are pleased to collaborate with Toyo Tire and strengthen its digitized development with powerful HPE Cray performance delivered via HPE GreenLake cloud. The latest solution provides Toyo Tire an optimal level of performance, in a flexible environment, to support a new era of innovation, with speed and efficiency.”
HPE GreenLake is an Edge-to-cloud service where HPE data center servers and storage are deployed on-premises, but with cloud-like capabilities.
In June 2023, HPE added an AI and supercomputer-based offering to the GreenLake portfolio which gives customers the ability to train, tune, and deploy large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) using the GreenLake platform.
Toyo Tires is a multinational tire and rubber products company based in Itami, Japan, developing and designing new tire technologies.
“As the automotive industry accelerates its digital transformation and increasingly moves towards simulation instead of prototyping and performance evaluation testing, automakers are increasingly requesting mathematical models of tires which is a faster, more cost-efficient and sustainable process,” said Tamotsu Mizutani, corporate officer and division general manager, technology development division of Toyo Tire.
“This requires numerical models of the tire and our new HPC system will advance this move towards digitized simulation. Our design engineers are excited about the enhanced capabilities of the system, and we are looking forward to accelerating the training of our AI models.”
HPE and Toyo Tire worked on the tire company's in-house computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications - TOYO-FEM- to optimize computing resources. according to the company, the performance was improved by nearly three times, while the time to simulate large-scale designs was more than halved.
HPE began offering GreenLake in 2018 and expanded its services in 2022. New customers this year include engineering company Danfoss, FC Barcelona, and the US Defense Information Systems Agency.
