Intelligent Light: Enabling Businesses to Succeed with Digital Engineering

High-performance computing (HPC) involves the use of powerful computing systems to solve complex problems and perform advanced calculations. As HPC systems grow larger and more complex, ensuring that applications and algorithms can effectively scale to utilize the available computing resources becomes a significant challenge. However, HPC is proven to quickly generate lots of high-fidelity simulation results. Making effective use of that information and training new engineers on complex workflows that companies have built up over the years is a big challenge.  Also, new procurement policies being implemented by governments require suppliers to keep an auditable, reusable record of simulation artifacts, from the PLM geometry source through simulation, flight test, and production. This is where Intelligent Light—a pioneer in high-performance computing solutions—is creating a difference. In a nutshell, Intelligent Light is taking a leading role in enterprise-level solutions for engineering simulation Digital Threads, helping Aerospace and Defense engineering groups succeed with Digital Engineering.

Intelligent Light’s IntelliTwin™ Suite modules were born on the most powerful computers in the world and refined to work on HPCs everywhere while delivering uncompromising engineering solutions. Its products and associated solution services provide the capability to create and manage auditable Digital Threads based on customers’ simulation workflows efficiently and effectively. IntelliTwin™ Suite of integrated tools offers unrivaled flexibility extensibility to meet customers’ Digital Engineering needs as they grow over time with an open, extensible, and approach that is agnostic concerning the solver technologies that they use.  “When to comes to business, our model is to deliver solutions as enterprise open source, via Professional or Enterprise subscriptions.  We work closely with our customers in an ongoing relationship with the various stakeholders to ensure a smooth integration,” explains Steve M. Legensky, President & CTO, Intelligent Light.

Intelligent Light provides SpectreUQ™ which uses simulations, surrogate models, flight tests and experimental data, and statistics to provide confidence in computed results. This is in addition to Kombyne™ that integrates with analysis codes to intelligently reduce data volumes to extract the required quantities of interest for SpectreUQ™ and other knowledge extraction tasks.   IntelliTwin™ Core manages complex HPC scale workflows, links them to PLM software, and automatically gathers metadata including provenance for use in searching, reporting, and reuse. “We adhere to the NIST 800 and US Government IT security rules, and most of our technology runs inside of customer’s secure HPC environs; our user interface software operates as ‘zero footprint’ clients, accessed through web browsers on workstations or mobile devices,” adds Legensky.

Intelligent Light has been serving some of the most sophisticated users of HPC for engineering and scientific applications for over thirty (30) years.  The team also uses some of the largest systems in the world for Applied Research in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Uncertainty Quantification (UQ).  This experience in the domains of customers helps the team to understand their issues and to provide them with effective products and services. An interesting insight one that highlights the company’s value proposition is that IntelliTwin™ Suite has been adopted by one of the world’s largest defense contractors who was facing several challenges.  IntelliTwin™ is solving their metadata management and distributed file management on geographically distributed HPCs to manage huge volumes of simulation data artifacts. This implementation integrates commercial CAE codes as well as government-supplied and in-house analysis tools, a key differentiator that sets Intelligent Light apart from PLM and CAE vendors.

Intelligent Light was founded in 1984 as a supplier of software and services for three-dimensional visualization.  Its group spun out from a company building a supercomputer for flight simulation in New Jersey!  “Our vision is to enable engineers to use 3D visualization in their daily work, and this was enabled as affordable desktop workstations evolved from various manufacturers. Today, each customer’s HPC configuration is unique and requires bespoke deployments, and we continuously respond to customer requests for product enhancements and new product ideas.  That responsiveness is our passion.  We always look for alliances that make sense to customers and us,” concludes Legensky.