High-performance computing on IBM Cloud
Build HPC workloads on IBM Cloud® VPC infrastructure, using Intel Xeon processors and IBM Spectrum® software
Overview
Discover HPC solutions from IBM
Security-rich, high-performance computing (HPC) in the IBM Cloud can accelerate results by scaling vast numbers of parallel tasks and reduce costs by optimizing the right technology to meet a specific task. Whether the workload requires a hybrid environment or one that’s fully contained in the cloud, IBM Cloud has the solution to meet your needs.
Offerings
IBM Cloud®
IaaS for building HPC environments, using IBM’s virtual private cloud (VPC) and, optionally, IBM Cloud Code Engine for a managed serverless platform
IBM Spectrum® LSF and IBM Spectrum Symphony®
Provides intelligent dynamic hybrid cloud capabilities to manage workloads and egress costs
IBM Spectrum® Scale
An enterprise-grade High Performance File System (HPFS) for workloads that need low-latency data access and for managing petabytes of expanding data with universal access
IBM® Aspera®
Quickly and reliably shares files and data sets of any size and type up to hundreds of times faster than FTP and HTTP, without saturating your network
Benefits
Elevate performance
Use the latest compute and accelerators to power HPC and deep learning with our bare metal and virtual servers, while mixing and matching the right infrastructure.
Control costs
Pay only for the compute power you use for bare metal and virtual server instances, with a cloud model that eliminates idle on-prem capacity and improves utilization.
Accelerate deployment
Choose from IaaS and HPC software solutions to configure, deploy and burst powerful HPC workloads with complete automation and an integrated user experience.
Trust IBM
Get cloud security technologies and solutions with pervasive encryption, AI, automation and integration, along with IBM’s HPC algorithm development expertise.
Use cases
Industries benefit from HPC capabilities in the cloud.
Electronic design automation
- Optical proximity correction
- Design rule checking (DRC)
- Simulation (like timing analysis)
Life sciences
- Genome processing and sequencing
- Pharmaceutical design
- Molecular modeling
- Protein docking
Film, media and gaming
- Rendering
- Computer-aided graphics
- Computer-generated images
- Transcoding, encoding
- Image analysis, processing
Financial services
- Monte-Carlo simulations
- Risk analysis
- Fraud detection
Government and defense
- Intelligence work
- Fraud analysis
- Climate modeling
- Weather forecasting
- Energy research
Oil and gas
- Seismic data processing
- Reservoir simulation, modeling
- Geospatial analytics
- Terrain mapping
- Wind simulation
HPC solutions
IaaS
IaaS
IBM Cloud® Virtual Server for VPC
Deploy application workloads in your own private space.
IBM Cloud® Object Storage
Get a durable, resilient and security-rich data storage service.
Serverless computing
Serverless computing
Resources
Improve your IT performance with near supercomputing power
Learn how IBM Symphony® on IBM Cloud delivers enterprise-class management for running compute and data-intensive applications.
IBM Research® and leading EDA supplier developing AI chip
Learn how IBM Research and Synopsys are designing chips that could improve AI performance 1,000-fold.
IBM Research team uses IBM Cloud for EDA workloads
Learn how running optical proximity correction (OPC) yields order-of-magnitude process acceleration.
Run OpenFOAM on IBM Cloud
See an example of how the IBM Spectrum LSF offering on IBM Cloud can be used for hosting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application workloads.
Weather research and forecasting workloads
Learn how the IBM Spectrum LSF offering on IBM Cloud can be used for hosting weather research and forecasting HPC workloads.
The benefits of running high IO apps
Learn how bare metal servers can help you gain big storage advancements, including SSD performance.
Why choose IBM Cloud for GPU solutions?
Explore using IBM Cloud for GPU needs and our GPU solutions and enterprise computing infrastructure.
How fast is the network on IBM Cloud?
Learn how fast the network between bare metal servers is in terms of network throughput and latency.
Talk to an IBM Cloud expert
Learn how to accelerate your initiatives with HPC solutions on IBM Cloud.