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Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) announced Lenovo TruScale™ High-Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS) at its Winterstock event last week, bringing the potential of supercomputing to businesses of all sizes through a cloud-like experience. The new high performance computing (HPC) as-a-service (aaS) solution complements Lenovo's TruScale portfolio by allowing HPC customers to access more supercomputing resources, resulting in faster time to answer for academics tackling humanity's most pressing problems.
The fastest-growing section of high-performance computing is cloud-based HPC, and on-demand resource consumption enables more efficient and scalable computing resources to satisfy workload requirements. With constantly increasing demands for computation and storage cycles and little room for additional workloads, the average HPC cluster is virtually full. Lenovo TruScale HPCaaS adds capability to research organisations, allowing them to compete for funds and receive faster insights. The technology delivers vital rack-level resources for driving innovation in a variety of industries, including academia, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and healthcare.
“Lenovo’s TruScale HPC as a Service allows for incredible innovation with the flexibility for HPC customers to expand their clusters when needed,” said Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager of HPC at Lenovo. “We designed this offering to make high performance computing resources easier and faster to deploy, offering researchers the freedom to think bigger and without technology being a barrier to their success.”
New Possibilities with TruScale HPC as a Service
TruScale HPC as a Service maximises HPC cluster resources and controls shared access through a simple, pay-per-use model managed and supported by Lenovo. With technology that is installed right at the customer data centre, HPC workload managers can dynamically access and provision resources on-demand. Additional cluster resources can be obtained through “push-button” access, which allows businesses to utilise additional computing, storage and acceleration capabilities as needed.
"In addition to a faster deployment, a seamless integration with on-premise resources and the ability to enable our researchers to focus on doing science without worrying about the technology is key", said H. Birali Runesha, Associate Vice President, Research Computing Center at the University of Chicago. " An on-premise HPCaaS will enable and complement well our Skyway cloud project that seamlessly bursts workloads to the cloud and hides the complexity of using cloud resources to the end users."
As a global leader in High-Performance Computing, Lenovo is working closely with key industry partners to develop, integrate, and deploy the technologies that deliver exascale-level computing to organisations of all sizes, or what Lenovo refers to as From Exascale to Everyscale™. Whether its studying climate change under the arches of the Torre Girona in Barcelona or predicting weather patterns that protect coastal communities at North Carolina State University, Lenovo’s award-winning HPC solutions are helping researchers across the globe push the boundaries of what is possible and tackle some of the world’s
greatest challenges. With the new Lenovo TruScale™ HPCaaS, any organisation can have immediate access to additional compute, storage and acceleration with more HPC resources available on-demand.
A practical and flexible approach to HPC
With a scalable, cloud-like consumption model and predictable payment options for hardware and service inclusions, Lenovo TruScale gives businesses of all sizes the flexibility they need to stay competitive. Customers may quickly add provided resources using TruScale for HPC, without being hampered by procurement delays or supply chain disruptions.
With Lenovo TruScale HPCaaS, customers have extensive capabilities to scale their supercomputing requirements as needed:
- Pay for what they consume with no hidden costs
- Easily scale HPC clusters by removing resource limitations
- Run applications at scale without architectural bottlenecks
- Translate capital investments into operational expenses, avoiding long and intensive budget cycles and procurement delays
- Manage budgets and visualise consumption and billing through Lenovo’s TruScale Portal
- Access to specialised hardware.
Greater protection and security
Lenovo TruScale HPCaaS provides a high level of security and control. Without any changes to job scripts or the potential risks associated with public cloud exposure, the on-premises HPC capability provides seamless, protected access to data. From installation to use and decommissioning, Lenovo's trained personnel ensure that data is protected. These features are provided in a very cost-effective package, with no data egress or ingress expenses. Customers can realise the full potential of their data while doing so on their own terms, thanks to TruScale's flexibility and agility.
