HPC in the cloud: A solution for varied computing needs

A sampling of use cases

Published April 2016

Advanced Clustering Technologies has just released a compendium of case studies that demonstrate how four customers are using the company’s on-demand HPC cluster in the cloud, ACTnowHPC, to achieve such benefits as quick turn-around times, technical support, access to RAM and no waiting for access.

The use cases include:

  • A weather forecaster triples his productivity using the cloud to forecast potentially severe winter snowstorms.
  • A biotech company reduces delivery times and gets much higher data throughput using the cloud to design high quality primers.
  • A specialized auto research company experiences 20% faster run times while using the cloud to supplement existing in-house HPC resources.
  • A mechanical and industrial engineering professor receives the software it needs on the cloud to conduct his research.