Making HPC/AI a success for you
HPC involves the bringing together of specialised compute, storage, systems software and applications.
HPC involves the bringing together of specialised compute, storage, systems software and applications… with experience and knowledge to work on larger challenges than stand alone or poorly designed solutions could. As well as doing it right, to help save you money.
What’s in it for your organisation
Our experience shows that where there is one need in your organisation for an HPC Solution, there will be more. The Business case must be focussed on what’s in it for your organisation, including management and the Board. Then of course a road map of when and how. All underlined with metrics the whole stakeholder group understands with break through systems to regularly communicate progress.
Understanding your problems
Together we will discuss and understand the why, which problem(s) are you trying to solve with HPC/AI? How do we measure the value that HPC will bring and by when
- Is this improving the competitiveness of a current product or the design of a leadership creating product?
- Or is this to manage the growth required for your research applications base for compute and storage, within a set budget.
How should this solution be future proofed? Should we look at total cost of ownership (TCO) for your CapEx and OpEx? Should we plan the Operations model to enable other departments in the organisation to be able to make use of the solution?
The barriers
What are our barriers to that value, such as:
- Is this our first HPC/AI solution / IT staff experience.
- Time to code the application(s).
- Application licence fees for jobs of this planned size.
- How to store and analyse the data produced?
Through the problem statement discussions/creation we can identify the costs and benefits to then enable us to define the Return on Investment, timings and what they will be for each Department involved.