HPE Managed HPC Cloud Bursting Services: Get cloud economics without relinquishing control

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“I need more resources right now ... but maybe not tomorrow!” It’s a familiar dilemma for businesses that rely on high-performance computing. HPE Managed Services has the answer.

by Steve Richardson, Digital Marketing Manager, HPE Managed Services

HPC (high performance computing) is becoming widely used across Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) industries, for use cases as varied as computer aided design and engineering, autonomous driving, production optimization, predictive maintenance, drug discovery, precision medicine, fraud and anomaly detection, treasury and trading analytics, IoT/smart cities and many more. For each, the power of HPC is needed to deliver accurate simulation and modelling in a short period of time. Gaining the insight before your competitors, or before events overtake the analysis, can be the difference between business success and failure. (See: What is HPC?)

While most HPC organizations still primarily use on-prem infrastructure, over half (53%) use cloud consistently for science & engineering workloads. However, adopting a cloud strategy can be challenging for high performance computing workloads for several reasons:

• Cost: What is the investment (and ROI) for on-prem vs. a cloud strategy
• Data synchronization: What is the best way to store and manage workload data across your hybrid cloud?
• Scalability: How to scale up and down into the cloud during periods of peak usage and need.
• Complexity: How to find the right trained cloud resources and how to offload the operational aspects to enable IT to focus on innovation and business support.
• Security: Hybrid multi-cloud security is complex.

HPE Managed Services can offer an end-to-end solution to help your HPC environment meet the challenges cited above. Specifically, with respect to scalability, HPE Managed HPC Cloud Bursting Services address that concern as well as the other management needs in an enterprise hybrid cloud/multi-cloud environment.

HPE Managed HPC Cloud Bursting offers the following:

1. Turnkey solution: Launch workloads rapidly using automated or manual processes, fully managed by HPE Managed Services.

2. On-demand cloud bursting: Instantly expand your high-performance compute resources, including GPUs, to address peak capacity requirements without on-premises resource expansion … and reverse the process when those resources are no longer needed.

3. SLA-based consumption: Ensure maximum uptime and minimal downtime for your critical business systems with our managed services.

4. Flexible “pay-as-you-go” consumption: Scale as per business demands. Achieve visibility on workloads consumption.

5. Application management and optimization: Access our marketplace for launching HPC jobs and on-board your own jobs with ease, all in one convenient platform.

6. Full-stack security and control: Get full transparency and control over your cloud spending and HPC operations, from architecture to data governance.

HPE high-performance computing customers are realizing the benefits of a managed cloud bursting solution in many instances of compute intensive workloads such as:

• Batch jobs (regression tests, protein folding)
• Animation rendering (gaming industry)
• Video processing (graphics industry)
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations
• Place & Route, Logic simulation (electronic design automation industry)

HPE Managed Services offloads the heavy lifting of running modern IT, when and where you need it. With unique IP and automation, along with a team of over 15,000 service professionals, the service delivers comprehensive monitoring, operations, administration, optimization, and nearly continuous improvement across all areas of IT. Focused on driving your business forward, Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners with you to help you run your IT with optimal performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance.

For more information, visit www.hpe.com/managementservices

Steve Richardson is a Digital Marketing Manager for HPE Managed Services. During his tenure in sales and marketing, Steve’s field sales roles have encompassed such areas as consulting client principal, global account services sales executive, public sector services sales executive, and many others.

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