Suzuki accelerates the speed of vehicle design with scale-out storage

The CAE system is the core of Suzuki’s product development, dramatically accelerating the development of new vehicles and motorcycles.

Over time, Suzuki’s storage system began to experience performance issues and scaling challenges associated with accommodating the explosion in design, engineering and production data, as well as cost and management inefficiencies.

Working with SCSK Corporation to address these challenges, Suzuki deployed a DDN™ Storage Fusion Architecture® (SFA) high-performance storage engine and GRIDScaler™ parallel file system to consolidate its storage into a new shared CAE storage system to support its production environment.

The new SFA-based, shared storage system provides consolidated storage to various CAE compute nodes from different vendors (used for crash analysis, structural analysis and fluid dynamics) via a shared InfiniBand storage network. It provides more than five times the current maximum disk space and throughput requirements of the company's CAE engineers.

The new DDN storage infrastructure lowers Suzuki’s overall TCO by eliminating storage "silos", thus dramatically increasing the efficiency of increasingly complex, multidiscipline design and simulation workflows.

By consolidating onto DDN storage, Suzuki’s CAE system has the performance and flexibility to handle new business requirements and accommodate future growth.