The ever increasing demand for more capacity and computational power is driving the use of commodity hardware to construct cost-effective HPC systems serving large numbers of users. Several trends have emerged in educational HPC systems:

• Providing HPC resource as a service – Requires an easy way for users to access the complex HPC system and an automated way to provision resources
• Use of commodity hardware - HPC management software must compensate for the unreliability of the hardware
• Data is exploding - Users demand good tools to simplify managing their data
• Power is expensive – “Green IT” is a hot topic
• Collaboration and resource sharing – Security and resource accounting is gaining in importance

The Platform Solution:

Platform has solution sets designed to tackle the above challenges for educational institutes.