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HPC & Supercomputing

High-performance computing clusters for research and production workloads. Multi-node deployment, Infiniband networking, parallel filesystems, and advanced job scheduling.

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Cluster Architectures

Scalable HPC clusters from small research to large supercomputers

Small Research Cluster

Nodes:8-16 compute nodes
Cores:512-1,024 cores
Memory:2-4 TB total
Storage:100TB shared
Network:100GbE

Best For:

Small research groups, development

Medium Production Cluster

Nodes:32-64 compute nodes
Cores:2,048-4,096 cores
Memory:8-16 TB total
Storage:500TB parallel FS
Network:Infiniband HDR

Best For:

Production workloads, medium-scale simulations

Large Supercomputer

Nodes:128+ compute nodes
Cores:8,192+ cores
Memory:32+ TB total
Storage:2+ PB parallel FS
Network:Infiniband NDR

Best For:

Large-scale simulations, national labs

Network Fabrics

High-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects for HPC workloads

Infiniband HDR

Bandwidth:200 Gb/s
Latency:< 0.6 μs
Topology:Fat-tree
  • RDMA support
  • MPI optimized
  • GPUDirect
  • Adaptive routing

Best For:

Tightly-coupled parallel applications

Infiniband NDR

Bandwidth:400 Gb/s
Latency:< 0.5 μs
Topology:Dragonfly
  • Next-gen RDMA
  • In-network computing
  • Congestion control
  • Quality of Service

Best For:

Extreme-scale HPC, exascale computing

RoCE v2

Bandwidth:100-400 Gb/s
Latency:< 2 μs
Topology:Leaf-spine
  • RDMA over Ethernet
  • Cost-effective
  • Lossless Ethernet
  • Priority flow control

Best For:

Cost-sensitive deployments, hybrid workloads

Parallel Storage Systems

High-performance parallel filesystems for HPC workloads

Lustre Parallel Filesystem

Up to 1 TB/s
Petabyte-scale
  • POSIX-compliant
  • Parallel I/O
  • High bandwidth
  • Scalable metadata
  • HSM integration

Best For:

Large-scale scientific workloads

BeeGFS

Up to 500 GB/s
Multi-petabyte
  • Easy deployment
  • Flexible architecture
  • RDMA support
  • Buddy mirroring
  • Client-side caching

Best For:

AI/ML workloads, general HPC

GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale)

Up to 2 TB/s
Exabyte-scale
  • Enterprise features
  • Active file management
  • Snapshots
  • Replication
  • Encryption

Best For:

Enterprise HPC, data analytics

Job Scheduling

Advanced workload management and resource allocation

Slurm

Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management

Features:

Fair-share scheduling
Gang scheduling
Backfill scheduling
Job arrays
Resource limits
Accounting

Advantages:

Open sourceWidely adoptedScalableActive community

PBS Professional

Portable Batch System

Features:

Advanced reservations
Topology-aware scheduling
Power management
Cray support
Cloud bursting
Hooks & plugins

Advantages:

Enterprise supportFeature-richProven at scaleCommercial backing

Scientific Applications

Pre-configured and optimized for popular HPC applications

Molecular Dynamics

Protein folding, drug discovery, materials science

GROMACSLAMMPSNAMDAmber

Climate & Weather

Climate modeling, weather forecasting, atmospheric science

WRFCESMMPASICON

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Aerodynamics, turbulence, heat transfer

OpenFOAMANSYS FluentSTAR-CCM+SU2

Quantum Chemistry

Electronic structure, DFT calculations, spectroscopy

GaussianVASPQuantum ESPRESSONWChem

Performance Metrics

Real-world performance from production HPC systems

Up to 10 PFLOPS
LINPACK Performance
Peak theoretical performance
85-90%
HPL Efficiency
Sustained performance vs peak
< 1 μs
MPI Latency
Inter-node communication
Up to 1 TB/s
Storage Bandwidth
Parallel filesystem throughput
10,000+ jobs/day
Job Throughput
Scheduler capacity
99.5%+
Uptime
System availability

Pricing & Configurations

Scalable HPC clusters for every budget

Research

16-node cluster
$80,000/month
  • 16x dual-socket compute nodes
  • 1,024 CPU cores
  • 4TB total memory
  • 100GbE networking
  • 100TB Lustre storage
  • Slurm scheduler

Best For:

University research groups, small labs

Most Popular

Production

64-node cluster
$350,000/month
  • 64x dual-socket compute nodes
  • 4,096 CPU cores
  • 16TB total memory
  • Infiniband HDR fabric
  • 500TB parallel filesystem
  • PBS Professional
  • 24/7 support

Best For:

Production HPC, engineering firms

Supercomputer

256+ node cluster
Custom pricing
  • 256+ compute nodes
  • 16,384+ CPU cores
  • 64TB+ total memory
  • Infiniband NDR fabric
  • 2PB+ parallel filesystem
  • Custom scheduler config
  • White-glove support
  • On-site engineers

Best For:

National labs, large enterprises

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