Accelerating Innovation
Parallel Works was founded in 2015 as a spin-out from Argonne National Laboratory with a mission to democratize access to high-performance computing and accelerate scientific discovery.
Today, we serve leading research institutions, government agencies, and enterprises with our ACTIVATE platform—a unified control plane for managing computational workloads across any infrastructure.
50+
Institutions
10M+
Compute Hours
8+
Cloud Partners
10+
Years Experience
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we do.
Customer Centricity
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to understanding their needs and delivering exceptional service and support.
Innovation
We push the boundaries of what's possible in distributed computing, constantly improving our platform to meet evolving needs.
Collaboration
We work closely with our customers, partners, and the research community to solve complex computational challenges together.
Impact
We measure our success by the scientific discoveries and innovations our platform enables for our customers.
Our Team
A passionate team of scientists, engineers, and technologists working to make high-performance computing accessible to everyone.
The Parallel Works team at Supercomputing 24
Matthew Shaxted & Michael McQuade presenting at the AWS booth at Supercomputing 24
Dr. Stefan Gary at the AMS 24 conference
Michael McQuade at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA
Eric Garcia presenting to a customer at Supercomputing 24
Founder Mike Wilde presenting at Google Cloud booth at Supercomputing 23
Join Our Team
We're always looking for talented people to help us accelerate innovation.