While different educational institutions have different core objectives, meeting the ever increasing demands of HPC users and improving resource cost and allocation efficiencies are at the top of many institutional and departmental agendas. Unmanageable IT infrastructures will impair any institutions ability to meet its goals efficiently and effectively. Meeting your objectives means overcoming a number of challenges, including:

Tight budgets

• Limited funds from governments and private donors make accurate, up-to-date visibility of compute resource usage crucial to justifying and allocating budgets. 

Demand for greater compute power

• With no or little visibility into how IT resources are being used, it’s difficult to provide students, faculty and researchers with access to large quantities of reliable, on-demand compute power. 

Need for accelerated information superiority

• To make informed decisions about research priorities educational institutions need compute-intensive tools that can turn raw data into superior knowledge.

The Platform Solution

Manage IT intelligently to more easily meet your institution’s goals and objectives with Platform's HPC management software, comprised of products in two distinct suites, Platform Accelerate (which includes Platform LSF) and Platform Manage.

• Simplify IT management. Consolidate heterogeneous IT resources from multiple departments to optimize compute-intensive applications and systems hardware. With Platform HPC management software, you can balance the supply and demand of computing cycles and resources with a single, transparent, aggregated source of computing power.

• Justify budgets with defensible data. Use historical and forecasted activity to justify budget allocations and requests. Platform HPC management software collects, aggregates, correlates and visualizes system and process data to provide the information you need to reduce overall IT budgets and anticipate future expenditures.

• Turn raw data into intelligent knowledge more quickly and efficiently. Unlock greater computational capabilities in existing IT resources to conduct a greater volume of complex analyses, simulations, modeling or testing.

• Increase productivity. Easily manage workloads to ensure that the right resources are automatically allocated to the right users and projects for maximum efficiency and productivity. The open, modular architecture of Platform software provides a transparent view of IT resources at any given time.