Parallel Works ACTIVATE is a compute control plane that empowers teams to seamlessly provision, manage, and share compute resources at scale across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud). Designed to simplify infrastructure complexity, ACTIVATE enhances productivity and collaboration through intuitive interfaces and API-driven processes.
With advanced cost control, budgeting tools, and support for flexible cluster creation, ACTIVATE helps organizations optimize high-performance computing for research, simulation, and AI workloads.
Parallel Works ACTIVATE serves as a layer that simplifies orchestration, scaling, and resource management. Chargeback is a natural extension of that mission because it:
Assign usage-based pricing and track internal resource consumption across Kubernetes clusters for accurate budgeting, optimization and accountability:
Improves Financial Accountability: Chargeback helps organizations understand who is using what and at what cost. This enables more accurate budgeting, data-driven cost forecasting, and transparent internal billing between departments or business units.
Promotes Resource Efficiency: When teams see how much their workloads cost, they're more likely to optimize: turning off idle resources, right-sizing instances, and running only necessary workloads.
Supports Cross-Team Collaboration: In research, academia, or enterprise environments, multiple groups often share common infrastructure. Chargeback enables fair usage tracking, reimbursement or cost-sharing agreements, and justification for expanding infrastructure budgets.
Enables Cost Control in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: As organizations expand across cloud providers and on-prem systems, it becomes harder to track total spend. Chargeback and showback centralize cost visibility, normalize usage across different platforms, and prevent overrun.
