HPE this morning announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that sits at the confluence of two well-established market trends: broadening adoption of HPC in the enterprise, and accelerating demand for cloud-based HPC. The pay-per-use HPE GreenLake cloud services for HPC runs on-premises or in a colocation facility and is designed to avoid the complexity and cost of […]
Video: Advania Simplifies Moving HPC to the Cloud
December 19, 2018 by
In this video, Gísli Kr. from Advania describes how the company enables customer to migrate HPC workloads to the company’s sustainable datacenters in Iceland. “When leveraging Advania´s HPCaaS you have the flexibility to address any workload increase as needed and only pay for the added resources used. By committing resources to our HPC-as-a-Service, Advania offers extremely competitive prices for CPU resources, a price that is unprecedented in the HPC on demand or cloud (IaaS) industry. Additionally Advania is able to reserve resources to accommodate both temporary and permanent requirements for added resources.
XTREME-D Launches HPC as a Service at SC18
November 29, 2018 by
In this video from SC18, Naoki Shibata from XTREME-D describes the company’s new HPC-as-a-Service offering. “Customers can use our easy-to-deploy turnkey HPC cluster system on public cloud, including setup of HPC middleware (OpenHPC-based packages), configuration of SLURM, OpenMPI, and OSS HPC applications such as OpenFOAM. The user can start the HPC cluster (submitting jobs) within 10 minutes on the public cloud. Our team is a technical startup for focusing HPC cloud technology. Our team has the optimal skill set for HPC architecture, public cloud architecture, rapid development of web applications for HPC, and Data Analytics for developing automated HPC architectural services.”
UberCloud Publishes Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies
June 15, 2018 by
Our friends at the UberCloud have published the 2018 edition of their Compendium of Cloud HPC Case Studies. “The goal of the UberCloud Experiment is to perform engineering simulation experiments in the HPC cloud with real engineering applications in order to understand the roadblocks to success and how to overcome them. The Compendium is a way of sharing these results with the broader HPC community.”
Verne Global Launches hpcDIRECT, an HPC as a Service Platform
December 5, 2017 by
Today Verne Global in Iceland announced hpcDIRECT, a powerful, agile and efficient HPC-as-a-service (HPCaaS) platform. hpcDIRECT provides a fully scalable, bare metal service with the ability to rapidly provision the full performance of HPC servers uncontended and in a secure manner.“With hpcDIRECT, we take the complexity and capital costs out of scaling HPC and bring greater accessibility and more agility in terms of how IT architects plan and schedule their workloads.”
HPC as a Service for High Performance Video Rendering
May 31, 2017 by
In the past 5 years, GPUs have gotten even more powerful so rendering tasks can be completed even faster than before. Katie (Garrison) Rivera, of One Stop Systems, explains how HPC can act as a service for high performance video rendering.
One Stop Systems Showcases HPC as a Service at GTC 2017
May 18, 2017 by
In this video from GTC 2017, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the company’s new HPC as a Service offering. As makers of high density GPU expansion chassis, One Stop Systems designs and manufactures high performance computing systems that revolutionize the data center by increasing speed to the Internet while reducing cost and impact to the infrastructure.
Sugon Moves HPC as a Service to Europe with Arctur-2 Supercomputer
November 27, 2016 by
As announced at SC16, Chinese HPC vendor Sugon has built a new datacenter in Slovenia based around the Arctur-2 system, Sugon’s first installation in continental Europe and a major milestone in the company’s globalization strategy. “Arctur-2 is Sugon’s flagship hyperconverged HPC & Cloud computing infrastructure. According to Sugon, the system was designed and built to fit various and diverse usage scenarios, from general use Cloud Computing to HPC computing as well as Big Data analytics. By converging different types of servers into single entity we achieved high performance, energy efficiency and seamless management, Sugon is able to provide an HPC on demand to its customers.”
