PING collaborates with tech companies to develop advanced golfing equipment

Global golf-equipment provider, PING, has teamed up with Intel, Altair, and Dell Technologies to boost its product line innovation by applying high-performance computing (HPC) to its design strategy. This collaboration has helped PING slash design cycle time, decrease variability in product performance, and improve quality without delaying time to market.

PING credits its continued success to over 60 years of dedication to innovation through science and technology. Its Turbulator Technology — inspired by design features on airplanes and semi-trucks — helps golf pros and amateurs swing faster and hit the ball further. Its Dragonfly technology, based on the science of biomimicry, helps distribute weight in other areas of the driver, allowing the heads to increase forgiveness and help compensate when players hit the ball off-center.

Both technologies run on Intel. By collaborating with Intel, Altair and Dell Technologies, PING can now run these programs concurrently and still have resources to test, innovate and explore new ideas to meet the needs of its customers.

How it works
Having worked with Intel technology for 15 years, PING leverages Intel Xeon Gold processors with Altair Unlimited, a fully managed, turnkey HPC appliance based on a Dell EMC PowerEdge server platform. These processors offer high clock speeds and large memory capacity to deliver excellent performance for PING’s computational fluid dynamics, impact, material analysis, and acoustic analysis workloads.

In all, simulation results are 4.5 times faster for a single job. The appliance also includes a head node, powered by Intel Xeon Silver processors, that orchestrates resources, controls storage and runs visualization tools to deliver power and performance.

Intel technologies deliver tremendous value to the Altair applications and solutions that PING uses by providing consistent performance and strong integration through unique instruction sets, such as Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512), Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL), and Intel MPI Library that are distributed as part of the Intel oneAPI toolkits.

Together, these technologies help PING deliver on its business goals and tackle challenges associated with remote work by reducing design risk and fostering creativity, while also improving efficiency and quality.

“Solutions from Intel, Altair and Dell help us confidently build out and deploy systems that will not only achieve great performance but will also perform well for years to come,” Morales said. “When you see a product that says ‛Intel Inside’ you know a lot of hard work and advanced technologies have gone into making it. We want our customers to feel the same way about us.”

What’s next
Morales said PING’s leaders are optimistic that as tools evolve, so too will the innovation of their products. As they learn how to ask more intelligent questions, machine learning will help them optimize their designs even faster and further increase the speed of innovation.