Swiss industrial group Datwyler has built a new data center to expand its computing capacity.

The data center is located at the Datwyler headquarters in Altdorf, Switzerland, and has increased the company's compute capacity from 36 cores to a 256-core cluster.

The new data center has also increased the storage volume available for active project data, now providing up to 36TB.

DCD has contacted Datwyler for more information about the size and power capacity of the data center, as well as the hardware used.

The system is used for global simulation activities, preventing the need to set up regional systems, and enables the company to develop items for the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries, food industry, and the mobility and energy sectors.

Datwyler employs more than 8,00 people and its number of simulation specialists has tripled in recent years, thus requiring more compute power.

The data center was developed with the assistance of CADFEM, a simulation specialist and partner of Ansys. According to Datwyler, prior to the optimization with CADFEM, only two simulation or HPC calculations were possible simultaneously on 12 cores each, and if parallelization was necessary this was even less.

"As more and more projects are in process at the same time and simulation engineers have to complete increasingly complex and increasingly complex, highly nonlinear models in ever shorter time frames, a real race for the available capacity began," said Rudolf Randler, head of simulation at Datwyler Group.

The data center can be used around the clock by employees in Switzerland and wider Europe, and can be accessed remotely from locations in the US and China.