Overview

High Performance Computing (HPC) is one of the most important tools in academic research for university students and researchers to discover the secrets of the universe.

The ever increasing demand for more capacity and computational power is driving the use of commodity hardware to construct cost-effective HPC systems serving large numbers of users.

Several trends have emerged in educational HPC systems:

• Providing HPC resource as a service –  Requires an easy way for users to access the complex HPC system and an automated way to provision resources
• Use of commodity hardware – HPC management software must compensate for the unreliability of the hardware
• Data is exploding – Users demand good tools to simplify managing their data
• Power is expensive – “Green IT” is a  hot topic
• Collaboration and resource sharing  – Security and resource accounting is gaining in importance

The Platform Solution

 Platform has two solution sets to tackle the above challenges for educational institutes.

• Platform Accelerate – With an easy-to-use interface, Platform Accelerate hides the complexity of the HPC infrastructure and allows users to access HPC capacity easily and reliably. Built-in fault tolerance delivers non-stop HPC resources to end users. The web portal and workflow tool allow users to easily manage their data.
• Platform Manage – With Platform Manage, provisioning resource is simpler than ever. System administrator can monitor and manage multiple clusters within the same console. This largely reduces system management cost for large HPC systems.

Combining Platform Accelerate and Platform Manage, an end to end solution for managing HPC environments delivers a solution that brings together leading edge products and services.