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NCC Finland
NCC Finland is part of the EuroCC2 project, which establishes national HPC competence centers in different European countries. NCC Finland's mission is to support and improve the capabilities of Finnish business users to utilize the opportunities of high- performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Through EuroCC Finland, companies have access to the computing capacity of the EuroHPC LUMI Supercomputer. NCC Finland is operated by CSC – IT Center for Science.
Industrial organisations involved:
Raute Oyj is a global group that develops and supplies technology and services to the wood industry. Raute is the market leader in plywood and veneer beam manufacturing technology and the only company in the world able to offer customers a complete factory-level solution. Raute combines technology, analytics and services to ensure more efficient, predictable and profitable production for its customers.
Technical/scientific Challenge:
The company encountered an issue that needed to be solved quickly. In manufacturing there is a lead time of hours between production stages, providing the critical window in which data must be analyzed to prevent contamination of the physical wood products. The time-critical nature of the analysis requires efficient computation.
Solution:
The company decided to try supercomputing and the EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer was considered worth a chance. Raute subsequently contacted NCC Finland for computing resources. One calculation round on the LUMI Supercomputer was done ten times faster than with the traditional Raute workstation based methods.
“The aim is also to enable customer factories around the world to use raw materials as efficiently as possible, but with as little impact on the environment as possible, i.e. through energy savings. In the future, HPC supported machine learning and the possibilities they offer will add value to the development of customer facing services.” says Jyrki Pesonen Research Manager of Raute .
Benefits
10 times faster calculation
Scalable processing using HPC
Improved quality of end product by filtering out defective materials
Ecological values and the fact that LUMI system uses certified, 100% renewable energy
Success story # Highlights:
Keywords: Wood industry, plywood, manufacturing, analytics, machine learning, LUMI
Industry Sector: Manufacturing & engineering, minerals and forest-based products
Technology: HPC