{"id":53131,"date":"2025-04-26T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53131\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:47:08","slug":"luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-suv-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53131\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminary Cloud Releases Open-Source SUV Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luminary Cloud<\/a>, a California-based startup with a scalable simulation platform, has released an open-source aerodynamic simulation model of an SUV. The first in a series foundational models called SHIFT, the SUV model was developed in collaboration with Honda and NVIDIA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the announcement, Luminary Cloud said, \u201cThis foundation model, combined with Luminary\u2019s Physics AI virtual wind tunnel, addresses a critical need in the automotive industry by bridging the gap between design aesthetics and engineering performance. Currently designers and engineers are inhibited by the inability to quickly make performance-based decisions in early stage development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luminary Cloud was\u00a0founded in 2019 by\u00a0Jason Lango, an expert in high-performance computing, cloud-based infrastructure, and cloud security, and\u00a0Juan Alonso, the founder of\u00a0Stanford’s\u00a0Aerospace Design Laboratory and former director of NASA Aeronautics research programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project represents a fundamental shift in automotive design methodology,\u201d said Pete Schlampp, CEO at Luminary Cloud. \u201cBy providing instantaneous, physics-informed aerodynamic feedback, our open-source foundation model enables designers and engineers to collaborate more effectively at the earliest stages of development, saving time and money\u2014while also advancing innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly launched SUV model was\u00a0trained on approximately one thousand simulations, with a goal of advancing to 25,000 by the end of the year, according to\u00a0Luminary Cloud. The company plans to roll out new data every month, with a staged release of pre-trained models at specific dataset size milestones. The dataset within Luminary Cloud\u2019s model will be open-source.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During NVIDIA GTC, Luminary Cloud demonstrated an interactive virtual wind tunnel using its cloud-native NVIDIA CUDA-X-accelerated CFD technology with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AI-powered virtual wind tunnel demonstrates how design engineers of physical products in the automotive, aerospace and industrial manufacturing fields can rapidly analyze, optimize and perform real-time interactive design. This new technology will enable companies to significantly accelerate their design cycles, reduce costs, and bring more innovative and optimized products to market faster than ever before,\u201d said Luminary Cloud.<\/p>\n

Alonso explained, \u201cOur GPU-native method\u00a0enables us to do simulations about 100 times faster than the equivalent CPU-based solver technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over time, as the physics in its technology get more robust, Luminary Cloud is expected\u00a0to compete with the current CFD software vendors. The company is also adding natural language support, allowing users to set up simulation using an AI assistant. \u201cWe’re not pursuing AI just to put an AI stamp on Luminary Cloud. We’re pursuing AI to make a difference in the engineering workflows for analysis and for design optimization,\u201d said Alonso.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luminary Cloud, a California-based startup with a scalable simulation platform, has released an open-source aerodynamic simulation model of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[28392,14270,3284,28395,28393,12,28394,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-53131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-cfd","9":"tag-cloud-computing","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-engineering-computing","12":"tag-luminary-cloud","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nvidia-gtc-2025","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114406467455324312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}