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Dig into our latest SimOps Blogs, Webinars, Interviews, Whitepapers, and eBooks to stay on top of SimOps.
At SC24 in Atlanta, Rick Knochel from AMD shared his view on SimOps, Simulation Operations Automation, and its importance for the HPC community.
SimOps Ambassadors: Enabling Community Engagement and Advocacy in Simulation Operations
A Whitepaper on Role, Value, and Impact Executive Summary Simulation Operations (SimOps) is an emerging framework designed to optimize, scale, and industrialize engineering simulations through the integration of people, processes, and technology. Developed and advanced by the SimOps Foundation, SimOps empowers organizations to transform simulation from isolated technical tasks into a strategic business capability that improves efficiency, accelerates innovation, and enhances
Apr 24
The SimOps Ecosystem: Roles, Leadership, and Real-World Impact
Simulation Operations (SimOps) is a structured framework designed to optimize and scale engineering simulations through a combination of people, processes, and technology. It is supported by a non-profit foundation that promotes collaboration, standardization, and innovation across the global engineering and high-performance computing (HPC) community. ( SimOps ) At the core of SimOps lies a clearly defined organizational structure that enables governance, technical direction,
Apr 20
CAE 101: A Beginner's Guide to Computer-Aided Engineering
In 1965, NASA issued a challenge: build a software program capable of structurally analyzing a spacecraft before it ever left the ground. The result was NASTRAN, a finite element solver that would go on to help design the Apollo lunar module, and eventually find its way into automotive, civil, and industrial engineering worldwide. What started as a government-funded aerospace tool became the foundation of an entire industry. Today, that industry has a name: Computer-Aided Eng
Apr 13
Simulation 101*: A Beginner's Guide to Engineering Simulation
Every time an aircraft manufacturer designs a new plane, engineers run thousands of virtual tests before a single physical part leaves the factory floor. Every time a car company builds a new vehicle, its structural engineers "crash" it hundreds of times digitally before the first physical prototype is ever welded together. And every time a medical device company designs a new implant, they simulate years of wear and tear in a matter of hours. How? Engineering simulation. If
Mar 9
4 SimOps Certifications to Build Real-World Simulation and HPC Skills
SimOps (Simulation Operations) is positioned as a practical framework that blends technology, process, and people to improve how engineering simulations are run and scaled, so teams can automate more, reduce friction, and get consistent outcomes. As simulation teams face growing model complexity, hybrid cloud adoption, and reproducibility challenges, SimOps provides a structured way to move from ad-hoc workflows to scalable operations. TL;DR Students & new graduates: start
Jan 21
Top Scientific & Engineering Use Cases Earned the 2025 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award at SC’25
Article about HPC use cases awarded by HPCwire readers in 2025. In this article, to demonstrate what’s possible today with current peta- and exaflop supercomputers, we’ll showcase several actual scientific and engineering simulation projects which just received the 2025 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Award. The HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards began in 2003 at the Supercomputing conference in Phoenix, Arizona. It is an annual program where the global high-performance comp
Jan 12
Best Practices for Automating and Optimizing Your Engineering Simulation and HPC Infrastructure Operations
Learn how SimOps – the “DevOps of HPC” - supports you with maximizing engineering productivity and cross-functional collaboration, improving operational efficiency, and foster innovation and competitiveness. Become a certified SimOps Practitioner and/or a certified SimOps Expert. Key Highlights: The Evolution of SimOps: Learn about the steps leading to the official SimOps community, where advanced automation and cross-functional collaboration meet to dramatically improve eng
Dec 22, 2025
SimOps, A New HPC Market Category
Definition: “A market category is a specific segment of an industry where a product or service can be understood in relation to similar competitors and existing customer assumptions. It provides context for a product by grouping it with other products that share common characteristics or use, such as "CRM software" or "health products". By placing a company's offerings in a recognizable category, it helps customers quickly understand the business, and it helps companies defi
Nov 10, 2025
How SimOps Transforms the Digital Landscape That Enables High-Performance Engineering Simulations
In today’s competitive engineering-driven world, organizations increasingly rely on simulation workflows and high-performance computing (HPC). But while engineers focus on models, algorithms, simulations, and insights, the underlying IT infrastructure must be capable of keeping pace and adjusting to engineers’ needs. That’s where SimOps becomes a strategic enabler. In this post, we explore how SimOps alleviates IT’s challenges, supports scalable simulation operations, and se
Oct 23, 2025
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