Founded in 1987, Gexcon (Global Explosion Consultants) is a Norway-based global knowledge and technology leader in dispersion, fire and explosion safety and risk management. The company assists its clients in identifying hazards, understanding the risk and improving their safety performance.
Gexcon’s leadership arises from detailed knowledge of explosion phenomena built through years of extensive research, performing safety assessment, accident investigations and physical testing at its dedicated large-scale facilities. Gexcon has developed FLACS®, the world’s leading simulator for dispersion, fire and explosion.
Gexcon has become a preferred partner to a multitude of industries. Over the last two decades, the company has also built on its global experience in varied hydrogen applications including process plant design, fueling stations, transportation, nuclear, maritime, research and development, and accident investigations.
Research and development being integral to Gexcon’s business, the company needed high-performance computing infrastructure that doesn’t come with huge CapEx investment and offers uncompromised performance.
Gexcon required easy access and collaboration to seamlessly process data spread across different sites. The latency challenges of accessing the company's HPC infra in Norway necessitated a dedicated and reliable HPC environment.
Previously, Gexcon's India team spent approximately 10 hours processing each simulation. Uploading data and downloading results took another 3-4 hours. Moreover, system downtime, network issues, and latency in the Norway office hindered outcomes.
Gexcon bagged 4 large projects involving 3200 simulations to process, which further increased the need for an India-based endto-end HPC service provider to help the company meet its performance needs and project timelines.
5x Optimised Project Timelines at 18% Less Cost
Post detailed evaluation of Gexcon’s challenges and needs, Yotta offered Bare Metal HPC as-a-Service (HPCaaS) to manage the company’s data-intensive workloads.
Powered by NVIDIA’s Tesla T4 and A40 GPUs with Windows File Server, Yotta’s HPCaaS platform provided the required compute and GPU capabilities on a single machine. To ensure leak-proof cybersecurity, rules were created in firewall to allow and deny traffic to public IP addresses, and VPN tunnel was created to establish connectivity with Gexcon’s global sites.
“We have optimised speed, cost, performance, project timelines, and reduced latency issues with Yotta’s end-to-end HPC as-a-Service. Yotta’s customer-centric support team serves as our extended IT team and we’re confident that our team can truly rely on Yotta’s expertise. With Yotta, we no longer need to worry about IT infrastructure and its security. Moreover, Yotta’s reliable network and connectivity services keep our IT systems always up and running, and help the company become future-ready. Yotta HPCaaS delivers 18% cost savings to us. I highly recommend Yotta HPCaaS to the IT leaders’ fraternity.“