Discover high-performance computing solutions from IBM
Tight deadlines, fast moving volatile markets, regulatory reporting requirements and the insatiable demand for new innovations have driven companies beyond their current and planned compute capacity. Keeping existing on-premises compute farms in stride with the latest technology advancements is impractical. And the realm of AI and deep learning has quickly crossed the boundary of high-performance computing. No industry is immune from the management mandate for deeper insights into customer and market behaviors.
Secure, high-performance computing in the IBM Cloud® represents the opportunity to exceed business and scientific expectations. Reduce time to results through scaling vast numbers of parallel tasks on IBM Cloud while reducing costs by optimizing the right technology to meet the specific task at hand. Whether the workload requires a true hybrid environment or one that is fully contained in the cloud, the IBM Cloud has the solution to meet your needs.
Benefits of HPC on the IBM Cloud
Elevate performance
Bare metal and virtual servers use the latest CPUs (Intel and AMD) and accelerators, such as NVIDIA GPUs — including the NVIDIA Tesla P100, V100, T4 — along with SSDs, for the power needed for most mixed app high-performance computing and deep learning.
Control costs
With a cloud model, pay only for the compute power you use for bare metal and virtual instances.
Accelerate deployment
With choices for IaaS and HPC software solutions, you don’t need deep infrastructure expertise to configure and deploy powerful HPC workloads quickly.
Trust the security
In the era of ever-present attacks and breaches, IBM offers a scalable suite of cloud security technologies and solutions that are made more robust and complete through pervasive encryption and AI plus automation and integration. When you work with IBM, you gain access not only to a full stack of IBM Cloud security services, but also to an IBM security team supporting more than 12,000 customers in 133 countries.
High-performance computing on the cloud spans industries
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
- 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 and processing
Government and defense
- Intelligence work
- Fraud analysis
- Climate modeling
- Weather forecasting
- Energy research
Oil and gas
- Seismic data processing
- Reservoir simulation and modeling
- Geospatial analytics
- Terrain/topology mapping
- Wind simulation
Build your high-performance computing solution on IBM Cloud
Look to the IBM Cloud for a security-rich, hybrid model and fully cloud-contained options that allow you to build tailored HPC solutions using the latest technologies.
IaaS
Bare metal servers
The IBM Cloud provides the largest selection and capacity of bare metal servers. Get the virtually unmatched and easily scalable power of bare metal on demand with the option to integrate NVIDIA GPUs.
Virtual servers
Provision and scale on demand with public, dedicated, reserved and transient “spot” virtual servers.
Powerful Intel processors
Accelerate cloud workloads with Intel Xeon processors and Intel Optane technology running on bare metal and virtual servers.
GPUs from NVIDIA
Provision bare metal and virtual servers with cutting-edge GPUs, including the NVIDIA Tesla P100 and V100, to handle your most complex, compute-intensive workloads.
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Scale to exabytes of storage for your big-data workloads with hybrid cloud storage choices.
2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
Achieve exceptional performance levels on data analytics, EDA, AI, and other demanding computational workloads with bare metal servers powered by AMD EPYC 7642 and 7F72 processors.
IBM Spectrum Computing
IBM Spectrum® LSF
Gain faster throughput using intelligent, policy-driven scheduling for your HPC workloads, and add complementary services for storage performance optimization.
IBM Spectrum Symphony®
Respond to real-time resource demands with an enterprise-class grid manager that runs distributed applications services on a scalable, shared grid.
Serverless computing
IBM Cloud Functions
Execute code on demand in a highly scalable serverless environment.
Get started
Talk to an IBM Cloud specialist about accelerating your initiatives with high-performance computing on cloud.