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CLOUD ENGINEERING FEATURE
Luminary Cloud's SaaS can model
water physics in a Francis turbine
without requiring users to download
any solver software.
speed but soon realized that running simulations in less time
requires more than just better processors.
" Speed's not just speed of the solver, " he said. " It's the endto-end
process, importing the CAD, actually cleaning up the
CAD and making the meshes, possibly adapting the meshes,
so you don't have to have a high degree of expertise in order
to get accurate calculations and then interpreting the data.
" The initial premise of the company was to bring the solution
time from hours to minutes. And early on in the company,
we realized we could do that. Then we saw that setting up the
visualization takes a long time, interpreting the results takes a
long time, bringing in the CAD, setting up the mash, and realizing
the mesh is not refined enough in various places. So
we've been automating all of the steps in that process so that,
eventually, people with less expertise can actually run
Luminary and have confident and very quick results. "
Beyond flow physics
Luminary Cloud will announce some of its automotive industry
partners later this year, and Alonso said he expects case
studies to be published as well.
" We are quite interested in expanding beyond flow physics or
aerodynamics, " he said, adding that porous media and conjugate
heat transfer simulation capabilities will be announced soon. " As
you can see, we are trying to work on the complete solution for
automotive, " he said.
Alonso said Luminary Cloud grew from one pre-paid customer
at the start of 2023 to 33 at the end of the year, along
with " a number " of pay-as-you-go customers. The company
also grew from about 45 people to almost 100 in 2023.
Alonso said Luminary Cloud is taking a page from its sister
company, Snowflake, when it comes to operating entirely as a
pay-as-you-go, cloud-based data SaaS. Mike Speiser, Sutter
Hill Ventures MD and the founding CEO of Snowflake and
Pure Storage, serves on Luminary Cloud's board. Alonso
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
founded Stanford's Aerospace Design Laboratory and was
formerly the director of NASA's Aeronautics research program.
Luminary Cloud's other co-founder, CEO Jason Lango,
was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and
cofounded Bracket Computing.
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