HPC in the Cloud

As cloud-based technologies become more mainstream, companies are looking for ways to leverage these within the HPC infrastructure in order to reduce overall computing costs and improve efficiency.

Univa enables cloud computing for HPC and technical computing organizations in 3 areas:

• With our products clients can build internal private cloud computing infrastructures
• Our products enable clients to leverage public cloud services
• Our products create hybrid cloud environments that can burst to the public cloud on demand

Leveraging cloud computing for HPC computing will help you:

• Achieve significant, predictable cost benefits
• Optimize use resources and applications
• Bring new products and services to market faster
• Share previously "siloed" or reserved resources
• Map capacity to demand
• Simplify the computing environment

UniCloud is the leading cloud management software product for HPC and technical computing, enabling organizations to build and access dynamic cloud computing environments. With UniCloud, application users can manage physical and virtual infrastructures in scale and achieve an unprecedented level of both application and public cloud mobility. UniCloud makes it easy to on-board an organization or application into a cloud environment, and enables policy management based on established service level agreements or requirements.

Private Clouds

Companies who are looking to achieve the benefits of cloud computing without the risks are turning to Private Clouds to create cloud-like environments in their own data centers. Doing so essentially means adding a new set of technologies including virtualization management, cloud APIs, self-service portals, and chargeback systems to the existing environment.

Private clouds are essentially a more powerful combination of commodity resources that can be sliced and diced into many small pieces, with networking and storage that can be dynamically allocated through preset policies. A Private Cloud may or may not include service governance or contention resolution capabilities.

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Public and Hybrid Clouds

The most common perception of "cloud computing" today is the public cloud – anyone with a web-based e-mail account or a profile on a social network is using a public cloud resource, which consists of compute resources available to end users on a subscription basis.

Public compute clouds facilitate a number of benefits, including a rapid boost to available compute power, expansion of data storage capacity, availability of web-based applications to a distributed workforce, corporate and self-serve customer portals, and easier collaboration with partners and suppliers.

Companies looking to benefit from public cloud can also extend their existing environment to a public cloud on demand, creating a robust hybrid cloud computing environment.

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