Unlocking Agility and Cost Efficiency with Parallel Works
In an era of rapidly evolving HPC and AI workloads, traditional on-premises systems often fall short in delivering the agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency required to stay competitive. By adopting a flexible, "right-sized" infrastructure approach—integrating on-premises resources, single or multi-cloud deployments, and hybrid multi-cloud frameworks—organizations can more effectively navigate the complexities of modern computing demands.
Right-sizing an organization's infrastructure to include hybrid cloud is key to balancing performance with cost and offers flexibility that traditional environments cannot provide. The goal of right-sizing infrastructure is to optimize both capacity and capability to limit idle resources.
Organizations that run HPC and AI workloads using on-premises infrastructure face several challenges:
The two main economic benefits focus on capacity and capability:
Capacity Example: Midsize Life Science Organization
A life science organization with a $5 million annual compute budget was only using 70% of their capacity, resulting in 30% idle infrastructure. By implementing ACTIVATE's cost control tools and right-sizing their infrastructure to a 90% target utilization across on-premises and cloud, they achieved:
Capability Example: Large Manufacturing Organization
A manufacturing organization reduced their annual compute costs by 27% by using ACTIVATE to right-size workloads across hybrid multi-cloud heterogeneous compute resources, shifting from $5M static on-premises costs to $3.66M using optimized hybrid deployment.
The Parallel Works ACTIVATE platform is a unified control plane for HPC & AI resources that simplifies optimizing hybrid multi-cloud infrastructures:
"Parallel Works ACTIVATE lets us focus on research, not the digital plumbing that supports it. We are using it to run a digital twin model of the Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere, which lets us research and predict space weather more effectively." — Jeff Steward, Principal Scientist at Orion Space Solutions
"Parallel Works ACTIVATE makes it easier for researchers to access their computing resources. ACTIVATE dramatically improves 'time to science' for bio-medically focused researchers in their efforts ranging from genomics and pathology to drug development." — Shilesh Shenoy, Senior Staff Scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
