Managed HPC Services: Now Being Offered by Advanced Clustering Technologies

Due to increased demand, Advanced Clustering is now offering Managed HPC Services for those customers who want to focus on other responsibilities. We will monitor your HPC infrastructure with health checks, analysis, security patches, and disaster recovery. What Our Managed HPC Services Package Includes But is not Limited to: Support for end users Operating system updates and […]

Did you miss our ClusterVisor 1.X Launch Webinar? Watch it here.

On April 25th we hosted a live Webinar to introduce ClusterVisor 1.X, our HPC cluster management system, which is a significant upgrade to the original system that we launched in 2019. If you missed the webinar, never fear. You can view it on demand and download the slide deck presentation as well. Watch the Webinar […]

Configure it! New line of servers features latest gen processors

We have just added our new line of ACTserv server products to our website. These are servers based on the latest generation processors from AMD (“Genoa”) and Intel (“Sapphire Rapids”). Start using the Configurator now.

Celebrating 22 Years Serving the HPC Community

Advanced Clustering Technologies was founded 22 years ago today, and our mission has remain unchanged in all of those years. Back in 2001, Advanced Clustering was billed as “Your source for peak performance computing.” The company’s mission – to build cost-effective HPC clusters backed by customer service that is second to none – has remained our […]

Listen to our webinar about Rockport Switchless Network

Advanced Clustering has partnered with Rockport to integrate the new Rockport Switchless Network into the HPC systems we build. This announcement was originally slated to be shared during SC21, and when we decided not to participate as an exhibitor for that event, we opted instead to host a webinar about the new product offering. Members […]

UC-Merced’s New PINNACLES Cluster Arrives on Campus

Today our customer at UC-Merced shared photos from the arrival of the new campus-wide cluster called PINNACLES, which our team was on hand to install this week. The new cluster, made possible with an Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), will double the supercomputing capacity at the university within the […]

Get more transparency in HPC Pricing

Advanced Clustering Technologies has long believed it is of utmost importance to help you navigate the rather complex realities of pricing options for high performance computing equipment. That’s why we first published our HPC Pricing Guide in 2014. The document quickly became the most requested document on our website and remains so to this day. […]

Advanced Clustering Presents: HPC System Design

Advanced Clustering Technologies made a presentation today at the invitation of Swarthmore College, which hosted a Mindshare on “High Performance Computing in the Liberal Arts” over the course of the last two days. All schools within the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC), which compromises 70 member institutions, were invited to attend. The purpose of […]

Introducing ClusterVisor, Our Cluster Management Tool

Advanced Clustering Technologies is proud to present ClusterVisor, our new HPC cluster management tool, which enables you to easily deploy your HPC cluster and manage everything from the hardware and operating system to software and networking using a single GUI. ClusterVisor is based on years of feedback from our customers and gives you everything you […]

Advanced Clustering installs Bell’s Kiowa cluster

    We were on-site recently at Bell installing their new Kiowa cluster.  Named for Bell’s renowned OH-58D Kiowa aircraft, their new system is powered by Advanced Clustering’s ACTblade x210 compute nodes and ACTserv x2280c GPU nodes.

Configure your next HPC system with Cascade lake processors

Our online Configurator has been updated to include all of our HPC systems that feature the next generation of Intel Xeon scalable processors (code name Cascade Lake). You can check out everything including: The ACTblade x210 system, which provides up to four independent compute nodes in one chassis. This blade is ideal as a compute […]

Updated: Your Guide to Pricing for the Latest HPC Systems

For several years now our HPC Pricing Guide has been helping our customers get a sense for the cost of HPC hardware. This week we updated the guide to incorporate the new generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Cascade Lake, into the systems. Our HPC Pricing Guide gives you the specifications and costs associated with purchasing […]

Wright State University’s HPC Cluster: ‘It’s here. It’s Ready.”

Wright State University has just announced that its new high performance computing cluster is ready to support research across campus. “It’s here. It’s ready,” said Amit Sharma, an assistant professor of physics who led efforts to get the cluster. “I’m delighted.” Advanced Clustering Technologies built and installed the Wright State cluster. It consists of 36 […]

Oklahoma State University Selects Advanced Clustering to Build New HPC Cluster

Oklahoma State University has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build and install its newest supercomputer, which will support computing- and data-intensive research across a broad range of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The new supercomputer, which will be named after the university’s mascot, Pistol Pete, will serve as a campus-wide shared resource, available […]

University of South Dakota Gets HPC Cluster for Research Computing

The University of South Dakota has acquired a high performance computing cluster as a campus-wide resource available to faculty, staff and students as well as researchers across the state. Made possible by a $504,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and a $200,000 grant from the South Dakota Board of Regents, the new cluster is […]

Featured Product: ACTserv x1110

Our ACTserv x1110 supports high core count, high frequency cpus and offers a lot of fast storage. This server is ideal for use as a compute, storage or head node. You can learn more about ACTserv x1110 and make your own configuration selections on our site.

University of Southern Mississippi Gains Campus-Wide HPC Cluster for Research

The University of Southern Mississippi has acquired a supercomputer to support research and training in computational and data-enabled science and engineering. The acquisition was made possible through a $622,986 Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation. This new campus-wide cluster, which will be called Magnolia, is a high performance computing cluster with 1,896 […]

Photo: New 61-Node Cluster

Download the newly updated HPC Pricing Guide

Are you wondering about the cost of high performance computing or how far your budget will stretch when it is time to invest in hardware? Advanced Clustering has just finished updating our HPC Pricing Guide to reflect the latest costs for hardware components. Since we started offering the HPC Pricing Guide two years ago, it has […]

Use the Configurator to Plan Your Ideal System

You can get a head start on planning your next HPC system using our online Configurator from within Advanced Clustering’s product catalog. From the Product Catalog, you can click the Configure button to begin using the Configurator for any of our servers, storage solutions or workstations. You can click the Compare+ button to compare products […]

New HPC Cluster Installed at Clarkson University

An Advanced Clustering team was on-site last week at Clarkson University to install a new cluster we built for Dr. Chen Liu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Liu was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-person research team dedicated to acquiring a heterogeneous high-performance computing cluster. […]

In the News: San Jose State University Brings New HPC Cluster Online

San Jose State University has just announced that its new high performance computing cluster went online this week. Funded by a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the new cluster will support an interdisciplinary team led by Sen Chiao from Meteorology, who was principal investigator of the grant proposal, and Climate Science and Ehsan […]

MRI grant-funded HPC Cluster Ready for Major Research University

800-Core Cluster Ready for Scientific Research

How Strong is Your Cluster Utilization?

Are your HPC cluster’s users staying away because they find it too difficult to submit jobs? We ask because cluster utilization is an important consideration. Cluster utilization is one of the main key performance indicators (KPIs) of any datacenter. Cluster utilization is important for your capacity planning, and it also informs your decisions about future […]

Installing a Cluster at Indiana State University

Installing a new cluster at The Ohio State University

Backing Up Your HPC Cluster

Advanced Clustering Technologies offers tech tips written by our engineers for the benefit of the HPC community. This week, we’d like to share our tips for backing up your cluster in honor or World Backup Day on March 31. Sometimes overlooked, making backups of your data is important for any cluster owner. Click here to […]

15 Things You Must Consider When Buying an HPC Cluster

Advanced Clustering Technologies is celebrating 15 years in business as a leading provider of turn-key HPC solutions including high performance computing clusters, servers, workstations and on demand HPC cloud computing as a service. To commemorate the occasion, the company is sharing 15 things you should know when buying an HPC cluster. 1. Turn-key is key. […]

Configure Your System, Get Pricing Estimate with Configurator

Advanced Clustering welcomes you to the online HPC Configurator, an online tool that enables you to configure your HPC system, server, storage or workstation in order to get an initial price estimate. Available from any product page on AdvancedClustering.com, the online HPC Configurator allows you to make configuration selections including processors, memory, power supply, hot swap […]

The Cost of HPC: How Does Budget Affect Value?

Whether or not you have a budget in mind or funding in hand, you’ve no doubt wondered what you get for your money when purchasing an HPC cluster. If you had more money, would the value be equally enhanced? If you spent less, would the value still be there? These are all valid questions. To […]

Report Shows HPC Spending ‘Solid and Stable’

HPCWire reported this week that 2014 was a strong year for HPC sales across the major categories with 59% of all sites anticipating further growth during the next two years. The finding comes from the seventh Site Budget Allocation Map from Intersect360 Research, which examines trends across academic, government and industry sites. The report finds […]

Oberlin College’s New Cluster Expands Research Capabilities

When it was time to replace its first high performance computing system with a new supercomputer, Associate Professor of Biology Michael Moore and his team knew they wanted a system that would bring HPC resources to the greatest number of students. “It’s vital to their future success that Oberlin students have access to high performance […]

UC Merced Selects Advanced Clustering to Build Supercomputer

University of California Merced has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build a cluster supercomputer that will support research at the institution. The new UC-Merced supercomputer will help researchers at the university quickly and flexibly conduct their research projects while expanding the ability to answer the questions being asked, said Hrant Hratchian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry […]

University of Central Oklahoma Selects Us to Build ‘Buddy’ Supercomputer

The University of Central Oklahoma’s Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC) has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build a cluster supercomputer to be named “Buddy” in honor of the university’s mascot, Buddy Broncho. The supercomputer project is being funded by a $304,745 research grant CREIC was awarded last year by the National […]

Growing Number of Life Scientists Will Need HPC This Year

Life science researchers who previously were able to manage their compute-intensive work with traditional workstations and simple clusters are finding that they will need more powerful HPC systems in 2015. According to a new report from HPCWire.com, Ari Berman, GM of Government Services, the BioTeam consulting firm, said: “Roughly 25 percent of life scientists, and […]

Three New eQUEUE Features to Improve Your Cluster

Advanced Clustering’s web-based job submission tool, eQUEUE, is getting a few upgrades this month. eQUEUE will now support: SLURM scheduler CentOS/RedHat 7 installations Desktop resizing for visualization windows Watch our video for details about the upgraded features. These updates will roll out soon. We’ll keep you posted.

HPC Cluster Delivers Flexibility for University’s Future Needs

This week we delivered and installed the new HPC cluster we built for Washington University in St. Louis. The cluster will help the university support its growing HPC user base, which includes researchers from disciplines not usually associated with HPC such as economists and radiologists. The university also wanted a fast storage system of 100 […]

Newsletter: Pinnacle systems now shipping with E5 v3 processors

Now shipping: Pinnacle servers with Intel’s new E5-2600 v3 “Haswell” CPUs All of our products — including the Pinnacle Flex cluster nodes, servers and workstations — are now available with Intel’s recently released E5-2600 v3 “Haswell” processors. To celebrate the launch of these powerful systems, we’re showing them off on our newly revamped website! Our […]

HPC Cluster Remote Administration

As a turnkey cluster provider, one of the questions we always ask our clients is who is going to manage their cluster and what kind of experience do they have. While we have some clients that have full-time, in-house staff to administer their clusters, we also have some researchers and scientists who have to balance […]

HPC Cluster Blog – IPMI

Nearly all of the systems shipped from Advanced Clustering in the last couple of years come standard with IPMI. IPMI stands for Intelligent Platform Management Interface, and gives you powerful remote management features for your compute nodes and servers. IPMI runs as part of a small co-processor, also known as the BMC, or baseboard management […]

HPC Cluster Blog – Memory Amount Limits

Memory amount limits: What’s possible for your system? The appropriate amount of memory for a particular node or server is usually best determined by looking at the number of memory channels available on the system’s motherboard. These channels are communication pathways that run between the memory and the memory controller, a component inside the processor […]

HPC Cluster Blog – Cluster Interconnects

Cluster interconnects: the three basic configurations While processor speed, memory amount and number of nodes in your cluster are important, another serious consideration for overall cluster performance is the interconnect. The term “interconnect” refers to the cabling and switches used by the nodes to communicate with each other. While necessary for every cluster, it becomes […]

HPC Cluster Blog – Oversubscribing Your Network?

To oversubscribe your IB network or not: When deploying an high performance computing cluster with more than 36 nodes that has an InfiniBand network, one of the most important considerations (beyond the bandwidth – QDR vs. FDR) is whether to oversubscribe or not. There are valid reasons for both approaches. Our first option is a […]

HPC Cluster Blog – Heat Density the Challenges of Compact Compute Nodes

Heat density: The Challenges of Compact Compute Nodes With the popularity of physically smaller compute nodes like Advanced Clustering’s own Pinnacle Flex system, comes the issue of heat density. While the size of nodes is shrinking, the power draw of these systems is staying about the same, or going up with the addition of accelerators […]

HPC Cluster Blog – Powering Your Cluster

Powering Your Cluster One item our customers often overlook when exploring the idea of a cluster purchase is their power requirements. Yet this is one of the most important elements of a cluster purchase, since it can affect cost, rack space and even the physical environment in which the cluster will be housed. For starters, […]