Organizations that rely on HPC resources are increasingly investigating cloud computing as a solution that offers additional computing capacity and flexibility. Clouds reduce or eliminate altogether the need to make incremental long-term, often costly hardware and infrastructure investments. To date, cloud solutions have been primarily focused on running important business applications like CRM, ERP, email and other database programs.
Cyclone™, SGI’s cloud computing offering for technical applications capitalizes on over twenty years of SGI HPC expertise. It specifically addresses the growing science and engineering markets that rely on high-end computational hardware, software and networking equipment to achieve rapid results.
SGI cloud customers have access to some of the world’s fastest supercomputing hardware architectures with robust storage for integrated scratch space and long term data archiving. SGI delivers its applications domain expertise by delivering leading-edge open source applications and best-of-breed commercial software platforms from top Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Cyclone is available in two service models: Software as a Service (Saas) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
With SaaS, Cyclone delivers access to leading-edge open source applications and best-of-breed commercial software platforms from top Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Supported applications in these domains include OpenFOAM, NUMECA, Acusolve, LS-Dyna, Gaussian, Gamess, NAMD, Gromacs, LAMMPS, BLAST, FASTA; HMMER, ClustalW and OntoStudio.
With IaaS, users gain access to some of the world’s fastest supercomputing hardware architectures, including Intel® Xeon® and Itanium® processors-based SGI® Altix® scale-up, Altix® ICE scale-out and Altix® XE hybrid clusters.
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