Cambridge Research Computing

What we do

Our role is to guide you through the HPC lifecycle to ensure your needs are met. We can help define needs and show where HPC can add more value to your organisation.

Expertise

We pride ourselves on client retention, repeat projects and building close relationships with our clients such that they often ask us to comment or guide on questions regarding further projects.

Strategic planning

We differentiate by time, from multi-year projects to Strategic Long Range Planning (SLRP) which may be up to 2 cycles of 4 years.

Ongoing advice

Post projects, we will consider retainer agreements, Non Exec. Director roles, supporting the CxO and Board Advisory roles.

Winning methodology

How many technical projects have you seen overrun on cost and still not match the ambition of your vision? We’ve successfully completed many projects for clients, across different industries (Mining, Life Sciences, Engineering, Materials Modelling…). Based on these successes, we have refined a winning methodology and break the process into 4 phases:

Business

Business Case – Your “why”, budget & ROI. Vision, Mission, Strategy & Governance.

Design

Design, procurement & implementation – Only what you need, on premise or cloud.

Operation

Operational plan – Who, how & training.

Exploitation

Exploitation & impact – A tool for your challenges. Time to answer, larger data sets, more jobs run, faster than your competitors.

40+ years combined HPC experience

Among the key-staff at Cambridge Research Computing there exist over 40 years of High Performance Computing (HPC) experience.

Meet The Team

Complexity solved

Navigating your company to HPC success

High Performance Computing concerns itself with the creation of computational capability and infrastructure in order to deliver business value. Typically this can mean the installation of specialised computer hardware, on-premise or in co-location, in order to maximise ROI over a 3-5 year period of the operation of that equipment, but it can also mean the incorporation of cloud resources to proffer more cost effective compute and also enable wider data dissemination. Central to the provision of HPC is a focus on data and maximising the value of that data for an organisation, integrating users who can range from experienced command line specialists to UI-driven data scientists.

These aspects make the strategic planning and tactical execution of HPC within an organisation a potentially complex and costly exercise, fraught with risk and uncertainty, and for which CRC can help.

Business case and defining the ROI

Our experience shows that where there is one need in your organisation for an HPC Solution, there will be more.

HPC Vision and Strategy

Understanding your needs, challenges and opportunities to mutually create your Strategy to achieve your Vision.

HPC Solution design

Has your organisation 100% understood and agreed what type of solution it needs? We can help ask the right questions for your requirements gathering.

How will HPC give advantage to your organisation?

Our experts can help communicate and coach your staff and management chain to understand what HPC is.

HPC Procurement, Compute, storage, software through to your service

HPC procurement is a complex process of a deeply technical solution.

Adviser to your Management team

Perhaps, not all managers understand HPC. We are regularly asked a side question by 1 or more of the decision makers.

Human Capital Growth – Recognise, attract, retain

Whether you are a new organisation starting on your first HPC purchase or a group running for the last many years; finding and then keeping staff is a major investment.

Retainer

Think of an experienced technical advisor there to support you and as required your board.

Storage Strategy

HPC/AI is equally about the right storage, for which stages and the software stack to enable the features you need.

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