Parallel Works entered 2025 celebrating ten years of advancing how organizations access and manage advanced computing. Since spinning out of Argonne National Laboratory in 2015, we have focused on turning supercomputing workflow expertise into practical, production-ready technology.
At the core of our innovation is Parallel Works ACTIVATE, a unified control plane for distributed, hybrid computing resources. ACTIVATE empowers teams that depend on compute-intensive applications and AI models by providing a seamless way to provision, manage, and share computing resources across on-premises and cloud environments. Built to scale, ACTIVATE enables organizations to efficiently handle the demands of simulation, analytics, and AI-driven workloads.
After a decade of developing a unified compute control plane, 2025 brought major highlights in product development and achievements.
Product Milestones
September 15, 2025 - ACTIVATE High Security Platform (HSP) Achieved Authority to Operate (ATO) by the Department of Defense (DoD)
In September 2025, we launched the ACTIVATE High Security Platform (HSP), a hybrid, multi-cloud platform purpose-built for national security workloads, and achieved a major milestone with an Authority to Operate (ATO) at Impact Level 5 (IL5) through the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). This marked the first time a hybrid, multi-cloud computing solution received ATO under HPCMP, enabling defense organizations to modernize computing infrastructure with secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud-enabled capabilities for simulation, analytics, and AI workloads.
June 10, 2025 - Launch of ACTIVATE AI with Integrated Kubernetes and GPU-as-a-Service Support
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) are converging, but most enterprises need flexible, scalable In June 2025, we launched ACTIVATE AI, expanding the ACTIVATE platform with integrated Kubernetes support and GPU-as-a-Service to address the growing convergence of AI and high-performance computing. ACTIVATE AI helps organizations operationalize AI by reducing infrastructure fragmentation, improving GPU utilization, and eliminating the need for deep Kubernetes expertise, while providing a unified, scalable environment that supports AI, HPC, virtualized, and remote desktop workloads across any cloud infrastructure.
July 28, 2025 - Announcement of the ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem
In July 2025, we announced the ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem, expanding our platform to simplify access to next-generation AI infrastructure through seamless integration with leading neocloud GPU providers and technology partners. This enabled organizations to deploy AI workloads across hybrid environments using vendor-neutral, flexible options that span neoclouds, GPU aggregators, storage providers, and channel partners, while allowing Parallel Works to orchestrate AI workloads across diverse compute resources from a single platform. Learn more about our partnership ecosystem.
ACTIVATE AI Partner Ecosystem
Awards
August 26, 2025 - ACTIVATE AI Named Winner in the 2025 SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards for Cloud Tech (SaaS)
In August 2025, ACTIVATE AI was named a winner in the SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards in the Cloud Tech (SaaS) category, recognizing technologies driving meaningful innovation across the enterprise technology landscape. Selected from a competitive field by a panel of industry experts and technology leaders, Parallel Works and ACTIVATE AI were recognized for bringing structure and control to complex AI workloads, reinforcing our position as a platform helping organizations operationalize AI at scale across modern, hybrid computing environments, as highlighted by both SiliconANGLE and CRN coverage.
October 21, 2025 - ACTIVATE High Security Platform Recognized as Gold Honoree in 2025 Military + Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards
In October 2025, ACTIVATE High Security Platform (HSP) was recognized as a Gold Honoree in the Military + Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards, following its milestone achievement as the first hybrid, multi-cloud computing solution to receive an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The recognition underscored ACTIVATE HSP’s role as a secure, defense-grade platform enabling modern, compliant computing across hybrid environments for national security workloads.
October 1, 2025 - Parallel Works Named a Top 100 Finalist in the 2025 Chicago Innovation Awards
In October 2025, Parallel Works and ACTIVATE AI were named a Top 100 Finalist in the Chicago Innovation Awards, recognizing our contributions to advancing innovation within the Chicago region and beyond. The honor reflected our commitment to building and supporting technologies that help organizations harness advanced computing and AI in practical, scalable ways.
November 20, 2025 - Parallel Works Wins 2025 HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in the Cloud
In November 2025, Parallel Works received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in the Cloud, recognizing a successful collaboration with GDIT to support a large federal agency in migrating mission-critical weather forecasting workloads to Amazon Web Services. Using ACTIVATE, the team transitioned from traditional on-premises HPC systems to cloud infrastructure while maintaining the reliability and performance required for life-saving operations, demonstrating how cloud-based HPC can meet the demands of critical, real-world use cases.
Learning Resources
SC25 Booth Video and Customer Testimonial Featuring Albert Einstein College of Medicine
In this video, Parallel Works CEO Matthew Shaxted and Senior Solutions Engineer Dr. Stefan Gary share the vision behind ACTIVATE and its impact on the research community, followed by a customer testimonial from Shailesh Shenoy, Assistant Dean for IT and CIO at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The discussion highlights how ACTIVATE supports research institutions by simplifying access to advanced computing resources and delivering tangible value for both technical teams and end users.
Bridging Worlds: From Slurm to Kubernetes, An Interview With Alex Woodie of HPCwire
In an interview with HPCwire Managing Editor Alex Woodie, Parallel Works CEO Matthew Shaxted discusses how the emergence of cloud HPC is reshaping how workloads run and shares strategies for managing traditional on-premises and cloud HPC resources without added complexity.
Watch our Webinars
Research Computing Gateway at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Powered by Parallel Works ACTIVATE
This webinar, part of the Microsoft Academic Research Exchange series, highlights how the Albert Einstein College of Medicine transformed its research computing environment using Parallel Works ACTIVATE, featuring insights from Dr. Stefan Gary, Senior Solutions Engineer at Parallel Works, and Shailesh Shenoy, Assistant Dean for IT and CIO at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Driving Space Excellence: Orion Space Solutions’ Strategy With Parallel Works ACTIVATE
In this webinar, Parallel Works and Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company, discuss how ACTIVATE enables distributed, hybrid, multi-cloud computing to support mission-critical space operations, with leaders from both organizations sharing real-world insights into operational scalability, compliance, and performance for advanced aerospace workloads.
Thank you for a memorable 2025
One thing that stands out in 2025 is community: the teams, partners, and users who make our work meaningful, every single day. This year, we’re especially thankful for the trust you place in us to power your most demanding compute workloads.
At its core, orchestration is about harmony. Bringing together different parts of infrastructure (compute, storage, and workflows) into a single, well-coordinated system. We’re grateful for the opportunity to help orchestrate not just workloads, but innovation.
Cheers to continued collaboration and smarter scaling.
