LUMINARY CLOUD takes CAE to THE CLOUD

The start-up's ‘real-time engineering’ service means you can simulate on someone else's GPUs.

The cloud is many things to many people, but it's really just a new way to talk about using other people's computers instead of your own. When it comes to expensive GPUs that run intensive simulations, using someone else's computers-theirs-is exactly what Luminary Cloud wants the automotive industry to do.

Luminary Cloud came out of stealth mode in early March, just in time to make a splash at NVIDIA's GTC 2024 event. With the support of $115 million in funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Luminary Cloud now wants to offer the “world's first modern computer-aided engineering (CAE) software as a service (SaaS).”