HCLTech High Performance Computing (HPC) offering

In addition to revolutionizing the way research and engineering are conducted, high‑performance computing (HPC) has significantly impacted our lives — from improving the efficiency of industrial processes to speeding disaster response times to furthering our understanding of the world around us. To realize the entire range of performance that HPC can offer, HPC users will need major improvements in ease-of-use, ease-of-selection and ease-of-optimization.

HCLTech HPC allows customers to build the best fit HPC environment for their business and use cases. The offering also allows streamlined HPC operations and efficient asset utilization resulting in faster time to innovation and value.

The HCLTech HPC solution is built around a three-tier approach:

In the first phase HCLTech’s experienced team works in tandem with the customer and perform the discovery and analysis of customer’s current environment. The current IT objectives are mapped in relation to the types of workloads and the capacity required. Teams along with customer relevant stake holders identify and map their existing landscape. The teams also analyze their workloads and the capacity required to achieve desired results. Assist customer in POC & benchmarking software stack in Lab.

In the second phase, based on the information gathered and analysis, a solution approach is designed, and the best fit tool and deployment model is finalized. The Middleware stack is built followed by configuration of clusters and management services. Once the build is complete the automation is implemented. The deployment is then validated, and a post deployment benchmark is performed. Once the benchmarking is complete the workloads are migrated or deployed.

In the third phase, the environment built is maintained and monitored continuously. The day-to-day operations are carried out for the landscape. The environment may be optimized further to enhance efficiency and minimize/resolve performance bottlenecks.

Building and managing a large environment such as that for HPC is a challenging tasks. Automating some of the viable tasks can help reduce human efforts and human errors. HCLTech HPC has automation built in. Existing environments can be automated by leveraging scripts and openHPC. The offering helps to automate Cluster build processes, diagnose and resolve performance related challenges or bottlenecks, configuration changes and software updates.

This helps customers to achieve faster time to innovation while optimizing costs, minimizing bottlenecks and in turn allows faster time to value.