High-performance computing solutions
Tackle large-scale, compute-intensive challenges and speed time to insight with hybrid cloud HPC solutions
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Discover hybrid cloud HPC solutions from IBM to capably meet today’s business needs. IBM offers a complete portfolio of integrated high-performance computing (HPC) solutions for hybrid cloud, including the new 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, which give you the flexibility to manage compute-intensive workloads on premises and/or in the cloud. 

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IBM won 3 HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards in 2023

Top Supercomputing Achievement; Best Use of HPC in Physical Science; Best Use of HPC in Industry

Read latest Hyperion Research white paper on the Evolution of HPC

Hyperion Research white paper: The Evolution of HPC Includes Strong Use of Hybrid Cloud

IBM Cloud HPC benefits Improved time to market

Choose from IaaS and HPC software solutions to configure, deploy and burst powerful HPC workloads with complete automation and an integrated user experience.

Elevated performance

Use the latest compute and GPU accelerators to power HPC and AI with our bare metal and virtual servers, while mixing and matching the right infrastructure.

Better cost control

Pay only for the compute power used for bare metal and virtual server instances, with a cloud model that eliminates idle on-premises capacity and improves utilization.

Solutions

IBM LSF suites

Enhance compute performance on an enterprise cloud.

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IBM Symphony

Run distributed app services with an enterprise-class grid manager.

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Slurm on IBM Cloud

Benefit from this highly scalable workload manager and job scheduler.

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Red Hat® OpenShift® for HPC

Run containerized HPC workloads on an IBM-Cloud-managed Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster.

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IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers

Integrate NVIDIA GPUs—with easily scalable power on demand.

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IBM Cloud® Virtual Server for VPC

Deploy application workloads within your own private space.

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IBM POWER Virtual Servers

IBM® Power® Virtual Servers are configurable single - or multi-tenant virtual IBM Power servers on IBM Cloud®.

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GPUs from NVIDIA

Use for your most complex, compute-intensive workloads.

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IBM Cloud® Object Storage

Get a durable, resilient and security-rich data storage service.

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IBM Storage Scale

Discover high-performance storage for workloads with critical bandwidth and I/O throughput requirements.

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IBM Cloud® HPC Managed Service

The industry's only fully managed service provides a full-stack HPC compute environment with always-on operations. IBM manages deployment, operations and app performance optimization with deep expertise, predictable monthly pricing and continuity of business, assured with SLAs.

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IBM Cloud® Code Engine

Run applications, jobs or containers on a serverless platform.

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IBM Cloud® Functions

Get on-demand code in a scalable, serverless environment.

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IBM Aspera

Quickly transfer data to and from IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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IBM Security Guardium

Wide visibility, compliance and protection throughout the data security lifecycle.

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Industry use cases Electronic Design Automation
  • Optical proximity correction
  • Design rule checking (DRC)
  • Simulations (such as timing analyses)
Financial services
  • Monte Carlo simulations
  • Risk analysis
  • Fraud detection
Life sciences
  • Genome processing and sequencing
  • Pharmaceutical design
  • Molecular modeling
  • Protein docking
Automotive
  • Design and engineering
  • Develop new features
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Improve customer experience
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 mapping
  • Wind simulation
Resources IBM Cloud® HPC
Get automated provisioning and seamless management of your HPC cloud environment, including integrated compute infrastructure and tooling, workload schedulers and high-performance storage. Address compute demand peaks by extending capacity as needed, and pay for only what you use.
Leveraging IBM Cloud for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads
Discover how EDA companies are continually growing their HPC environments at scale to meet the needs of high fidelity simulations and modeling workloads.
How HPC helps Financial Services with risk analysis
Learn how HPC helps financial institutions conduct critical risk analysis to meet regulatory requirements.
How the semiconductor industry is leveraging high-performance computing to drive innovation
A hybrid cloud approach delivers the agility, flexibility and security required to fill these demands.
Meet VELA, IBM’s first AI-optimized, cloud-native supercomputer
The go-to environment for IBM researchers creating our most advanced AI capabilities, including our work on foundation models. VELA is where we collaborate with partners to train models of many kinds.
IBM Quantum leads the world in quantum computing
This nascent technology is widely expected to solve valuable problems that today’s most powerful classical supercomputers cannot solve and never will.
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Reach out now to discover hybrid cloud HPC solutions from IBM and see how it was designed to meet today’s evolving business needs—and tomorrow’s.