Partners

Aeon Computing is focused on the design and deployment of highly-integrated HPC, clustered computing, and storage solutions for all areas of computer-aided research and production.

With over 55 years of staff experience in high-performance computing, enterprise computing architectures, and data storage, our focus is on architecting a perfectly-suited solution for your needs. We do not adhere to the large manufacturer approach of “one size fits most”. Every application or research methodology is different. We prefer to learn about our customer’s research, their needs and challenges. Our strength comes from being able to draw from many different types of technologies and configuration approaches. Our goal is to design and deploy a cluster or system for our customers that avoids needless bottlenecks, limitations or design and configuration flaws that are commonly found in solutions designed by companies that are more focused on profits or sales incentives from manufacturers.

The monetary investment of budgetary or research grant funding should be made on a solution that is best suited to the specific needs of your research.

Alces Software was formed in 2008 by a partnership of IT professionals with the aim of simplifying software configuration and management across Linux distributions. After building system automation solutions as test engineers, developers and HPC cluster sys-admins, they became frustrated at the lack of cross-distribution standardization. Installing software across different hardware and Linux distributions was complicated, time-consuming and required highly skilled engineers.

Alpha System offers consultation, design, implementation and system administration for most computing systems. Our experience and contacts enables us to offer stable production environments that invokes confidence with our customers. We use open source HPC software (based on Linux, MPI and OpenMP) in addition to powerful and flexible computer systems, this allows our customers to lead in their fields.

We offer customized HPC solutions tweaked for power, cooling and interconnect requirements. Custom software and programming environments, libraries and management and control systems. We approach customer needs on a individual basis to address application and infrastructure problems. Acceleration technologies that embrace FPGA, GPU and compilers to support them.

BCE is a European leader in technical services in the areas of television, radio, production and postproduction, telecommunication and IT. With its long experience on the media market, our team provides high-quality services and will always find the solution that matches your project and budget. With more than 200 highly qualified and motivated people, BCE serves about 400 clients in various sectors, such as TV channels, radio stations, film distributors, producers, advertising companies, telecommunications operators and public services.

Bull is an Information Technology company, dedicated to helping Corporations and Public Sector organizations optimize the architecture, operations and the financial return of their Information Systems and their mission-critical related businesses. Bull focuses on open and secure systems, and as such is the only European-based company offering expertise in all the key elements of the IT value chain.

Founded in 2000, Cluster Technology Limited (ClusterTech) specializes in the provision of advanced computing technology solutions. ClusterTech utilizes Cluster, Cloud and other high performance computing (HPC) technologies to improve operational efficiency, address large-scale computing demand, develop Business Intelligence, and ensure high availability. ClusterTech’s R&D team, which consists of a group of highly experienced PhDs and masters, dedicates to providing professional services and technical support to our clients in various sectors including industry, commerce, finance, government, research and education.

Condre Storage is a technical distributor of computer hardware and software serving the VAR and reseller community with a specific product focus in data storage and servers. We have carefully chosen a combination of product lines in Hard Drives, Solid State Drives (SSD), RAID Systems, Storage Area Networking (SAN), and Server components to provide innovative storage and server  solutions. Our management, sales representatives, engineering staff, and support team, all have extensive backgrounds in the data storage industry.

Core Micro Systems, based in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading provider of high performance storage solutions including subsystems and various appliances to the major Japanese markets including those for HPC, cloud storage and enterprise DR. Core Micro Systems provides ultra high IOPS storage products, such as Super CACHE, Super SSD and Super RAID, developed by itself and other storage solutions with vendor-free hardware to customers’ requirements. The product line includes ZFS Open Storage Appliance, Windows Storage Server NAS Storage Appliance and others with advanced software solution package including, NexentaStor by Nexenta Systems, MelioFS by Sanbolic, GlusterFS by Gluster and Lustre for various market demands. Core Micro Systems provides not only traditional storage appliances but also provides its custom storage solutions to meet the customers’ need.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world’s largest, privately-held, data storage infrastructure provider. With a unique and exacting focus on the requirements of today’s massive unstructured data generators, DDN has innovated a comprehensive product portfolio for Big Data applications which are optimized for the world’s most data-intensive environments, including: High Performance Computing, Life Science Research, Web & Cloud Content, Professional Media, Homeland Security, Intelligence and more.

Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. With more than 4,900 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business in more than 100 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems products, services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world – and information is the new currency.

ISBC Inc. is solution & business consulting provider for Cloud and HPC (High Performance Computing) in South Korea. We are interested in various open source solution and open technology market place and we focus on integration open source with commercial solutions. We have many partnerships with solution providers, such as scheduler, big data, high performance storage and Cloud Infra monitoring solution. Our strength is we can provide one stop consulting services for Cloud and HPC. As well as, we can provide optimization of in-house code and conversion from serial to parallel code.

JNET 2000 S.p.A. is an Italian ICT engineering and services company, working successfully for more than ten years and delivering robust and timely solutions to leading corporate customers. JNET 2000 professionals design, deliver and support innovative and complex Information & Communication Technology infrastructures and services based on proprietary and open source products. JNET 2000 helps their customers leverage the full power of Open Source by providing services that enable enterprises to build a strategic and comprehensive approach to Open Source.

The Lustre based scalable parallel file system product NEC LXFS is designed to offer huge storage capacities with balanced performance especially for mid- and large-scale HPC systems. LXFS consists of carefully selected server and storage hardware, file system software, a deployment concept, a management and monitoring concept paired with an emphasis on reliability and redundancy and bundled with support services. It is built out of basic building blocks allowing for easy scaling and configuration in terms of capacity and performance. As a part of the globally operating NEC Corporation in Tokyo, Japan, NEC HPC Europe is marketing innovative High-Tech-products, which result from a solid global R&D-background. Its product portfolio encompasses high-performance computing systems for scientific applications, among them the LX-series Linux cluster systems, SX-series supercomputers, and a wide range of support and system integration services.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further.

Nor-Tech is an OEM system builder based out of Burnsville, Minnesota. With a special focus on providing High Performance Computing Solutions, Storage Servers, and Visualization Workstations, Nor-Tech is honored to have been awarded projects from such high profile organizations as the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, DARPA, Gulfstream, Boeing, MIT, and many more. Nor-Tech is an Intel Authorized Integrator and has developed HPC solutions that have been certified as Intel Cluster Ready. At Nor-Tech, we develop custom turnkey solutions, with the emphasis on custom. We understand there are unique challenges that arise with each project and we pride ourselves on our ability to meet these challenges and rise above them.

ParTec‘s Cluster Competence Center delivers the software, consultancy and support services necessary to achieve new heights in productivity and availability on todays commodity based supercomputers. Parastation, an opensource project developed and maintained by ParTec, has unique features  specifically designed to address the challenges of scalability and reliability on extremely large clusters.  ParTec’s unrivaled expertise in delivering professional services, consultancy and support has made it the  partner of choice in some of the leading HPC sites across Europe.

For well over a decade Penguin Computing has been dedicated to delivering complete, integrated High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions that are innovative, cost effective and easy to use. Penguin offers a complete end-to-end portfolio of products and solutions ranging from Linux servers and workstations to integrated, turn-key HPC clusters and cluster management software. For users that want to use supercomputing capabilities on-demand and pay as they go, Penguin offers ‘Penguin on Demand’ (POD), a public HPC cloud that is available instantly and as needed. With its broad portfolio of solutions Penguin is the one-stop shop for HPC and enterprise customers and counts some of the world’s most demanding HPC users as its customers, including Caterpillar, Life Technologies, Dolby, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy.

SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges.

Terascala’s high throughput storage solutions make big data fast. With Terascala, the leader in Fast Data storage management, organizations can transition from simply storing and sifting their data to leveraging that data to drive applications. By combining a parallel file system, extensive analysis and optimization tools, integration and services, Terascala’s storage appliances enable rapid analysis of big data sets using large interconnected server installations by ensuring that servers are never starved for data. Founded in 2005, Terascala is based in Avon, MA.

Ultrascale Incorporated emerged in 2011 to deliver premier engineering services to the US government for high performance computing and storage.

To meet the demands of today’s data explosion, computing environments need to be overhauled to support petabytes of data and gigabytes per second of throughput. Ultrascale focuses on high performance computing and storage solutions that can revolutionize data centers and span geographic regions.

VPAC Ltd. provides consulting, life cycle management, training, and operating support in all aspects of high performance and advanced computing, eResearch, and HPC enabled R&D to academia, industry, and government. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, VPAC operates throughout the Asia Pacific region. VPAC is a recognized Research Service Provider operating a supercomputer centre serving the Victorian university community and providing industry with tailored HPC solutions and support services.

WARP Mechanics Ltd. is a leading provider of HPC technologies. WARP products are factory-optimized for markets such as classic HPC scientific, Bio/Life, Cloud, or Media/Entertainment, and can be rolled out in a turn-key fashion. Yet a WARP appliance is still capable of immense customization once on site. All appliances are built on solid “five nines capable” hardware, sourced from manufacturing partners used by major OEMs. This provides a “factory direct” pricing model, while maintaining quality. The hardware runs the WARPware stack: management tools plus WARP FS and WARP RAID.

WARP FS is based on Whamcloud Lustre. Customers can enjoy the benefits of a super computer storage solution in a turn-key package. With WARP FS, it is no longer necessary to chose between power and ease of use. WARP FS appliances differentiate from other Lustre solutions by sitting on top of, and being fully integrated with, WARP RAID. These controllers provide the benefits of ZFS under Lustre, but are production-ready today. This architecture maintains clean separation between RAID hardware vs. OSS platforms, yet maximizes performance by transporting data via RDMA.

Whether you need a small turn-key gigabit NFS server, or a scale-out system to handle 10s of Petabytes of data at a Terabyte per second, the WARP Mechanics portfolio has a product just right for you.

Cray is a global leader in supercomputing that provides highly advanced systems and solutions and world-class service and support to government, industry and academia. Cray technology enables scientists and engineers to not only meet existing and future simulation and analytics challenges but achieve remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating performance, improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of their most demanding applications.

Whether you are a small organization with a basic understanding of HPC or a large organization with a complex and growing HPC environment, Dell has the collective portfolio, expertise and experience to support your HPC ecosystem.

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

European Open File System (EOFS) was founded 15th December 2010 in Munich as a Non-Profit organization. The purpose of the European Open File System SCE is the promotion and servicing of the members’ needs.

Fujitsu is a leading provider of information and communication technology (ICT)-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 170,000 employees supporting customers in over 100 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.5 trillion yen (US$55 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011.

Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University is a world-class organization dedicated to the development and delivery of innovative information technology to advance research, education, industry, and society. Supported in part by a $15 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., PTI is built upon a spirit of collaboration and brings together researchers and technologists from a range of disciplines and organizations, including the IU School of Informatics and Computing at Bloomington, the IU Maurer School of Law, and University Information Technology Services at Indiana University.

Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory, with a mission to ensure national security and apply science and technology to the important issues of our time. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is enabling advances in high-end computing technologies and in modeling and simulations methods to tackle some of the toughest science and engineering challenges facing NASA today. For more than 25 years, the name “NAS” has been associated with leadership and innovation throughout the high-end computing (HEC) community. We play a significant role in shaping HEC standards and paradigms, and provide leadership in the areas of large-scale InfiniBand fabrics, Lustre open-source filesystems, and hyperwall technologies.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multi-program science and technology laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by UT-Battelle, LLC. Scientists and engineers at ORNL conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation’s leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security. ORNL also performs other work for DOE, including isotope production, information management, and technical program management, and provides research and technical assistance to other
organizations.

OpenSFS aims to provide a forum for collaboration among entities deploying file systems on leading edge HPC systems, to communicate future requirements to open-source file system developers, and to support file system releases which have been designed to meet these goals.

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe.  Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, applications, management and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

As an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, SDSC is considered a leader in data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure, providing resources, services, and expertise to the national research community including industry and academia. SDSC supports hundreds of multidisciplinary programs spanning a wide variety of domains, from earth sciences to biology to astrophysics to bioinformatics and health IT. With its two newest supercomputer systems, Trestles and the soon-to-be launched Gordon, SDSC is a partner in XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the most advanced collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the leading centers of computational excellence in the United States. Located on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, the center’s mission is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.