Univa Solutions For Academia

Universities and research institutions are often the driving force behind technological and scientific developments that eventually achieve commercial adoption. In many cases, budget constraints and insufficient access to computational power are limitations to these inspired advances.

Robust grid and cluster solutions can be used in this environment to overcome academic computing limitations and dramatically improve the performance of compute-intensive research in areas like life sciences, biochemistry, engineering, geosciences, atmospheric/air quality, acoustic modeling, and computational finance.

Univa helps academic organizations find lower cost alternatives for their work in a wide variety of areas. Univa solutions can help academic institutions achieve:

• Accelerated R&D application processing
• Reduced total cost of IT infrastructure with improved hardware utilization
• Streamlined project workflow and improved end user collaboration
• New channel to reach alumni
• Improved IT analysis for faster, better decision making

By leveraging the power of resources across departments or even campus-wide, researchers gain access to teraflops of computing power at costs dramatically below those of other high-performance hardware and software solutions.

Most academic institutions struggle with budget constraints and insufficient access to computational power, problems that can hinder their ability to support research and innovation. In such an environment, grid and cluster solutions can improve the performance of compute-intensive research by accelerating application performance and making infrastructure management easier. Univa helps academic organizations find lower cost alternatives in a wide variety of work areas – including biochemistry, engineering, acoustic modeling, geosciences, and computational finance.

Our Academic clients are finding more and more ways to leverage grid and cluster in the lab and within the back office. With our solutions customers can:

• Expand Analysis – With Univa technology, greater amounts of data can be processed, modeled, and analyzed to increase accuracy and precision of results.
• Minimize Project Timelines – Access to increased teraflops of processing power will significantly reduce the time it takes to perform compute-intensive academic research.
• Reduce or Eliminate Costs – Universities and research institutions can easily stay within budget and have access to significantly more computing power by using their existing assets more efficiently. Univa solutions are designed for low-cost, multi-user, cross-departmental resource sharing.

In addition, Univa's alliances with key software vendors ensure that your most critical applications will operate at a highly increased rate of productivity.

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Univa has the proven solutions to benefit academic institutions, from application acceleration to Internet Grids for research and Alumni outreach.

Specific use cases include:

• Accelerating HPC Applications
• Establishing a Research Grid
• Accounting for Resources

Accelerating HPC Applications

When IT constraints bottleneck your researchers' ability to process data quickly, project timelines suffer and results aren't reached as quickly. Most academic institutions attempt to alleviate this problem by acquiring new HPC resources, but this only adds to the complexity – and cost – of managing the infrastructure.

With Univa solutions, academic organizations can dramatically increase processing capacity and application throughput. With our grid solutions, you'll unlock hidden capacity to power processing at new levels, without an investment in costly hardware.

Establishing a Research Grid

Organizations with significant computing needs are turning more and more to outsourced solutions for processing, typically in the form of high-priced utility computing offerings. But academic institutions have the advantage of being able to tap into a range of external constituents – Alumni, member organizations, and even other universities – who can provide processing capability via the Internet, in the style of classic global grids.

With Univa, organizations can build Internet-based research grids that aggregate power for better processing and provide a new channel for communicating with your Alumni base.

Accounting for Resources

For universities looking to justify HPC purchases and optimize budgeting, a lack of visibility into utilization rates means less informed decision-making. In addition, the broad range of users and applications across multiple geographically dispersed sites adds to the complexity of the environment – and makes it more difficult to account for which resources are used when, how, and by whom. Thus, the ability to make accurate spending decisions is diminished.

With Univa's solutions, organizations have comprehensive visibility across disparate, broadly dispersed devices. Our solutions enable enterprise-wide capacity and utilization analytics, so you can execute fact-based capacity planning, improve productivity through reallocated resources, optimize hardware and software spending, and make fully informed HPC spending decisions.