Revolutionizing Design & Engineering with NZO Cloud’s Supercomputing Capabilities 

Supercomputing is most commonly thought of as a tool only for the largest government agencies, top commercial companies, and most prestigious universities — not your everyday small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The focus of supercomputing is typically on the largest cloud systems, which scale well beyond many thousands of processor cores. Many SMBs believe supercomputing capabilities to be well beyond their reach, but nothing could be further from the truth. SMBs need a competitive advantage to obtain government and commercial contracts, and that advantage is a powerful, scalable, high-performance supercomputing platform.

Over the past 12 months, interest and deployment of high-performance cloud clusters at SMBs performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), and structural engineering work have trended significantly upward. Without cloud systems, the work these organizations are accomplishing would be nearly impossible. But with the right cloud-based systems, it could be the lifeline to their organizational success. “Supercomputing is not just for the large and powerful organizations,” says Alex Lesser, Vice President of NZO Cloud. “Supercomputing is an accessible tool for everyone. Small and Medium Businesses need to leverage these cloud-based tools to ensure their success, and it does not have to be costly or intimidating.”

NZO Cloud works closely with several trusted leaders in the design and engineering space. These organizations develop state-of-the-art physics-based models for test programs, modeling and simulation analysis solutions for highly dynamic events and reactivity of energetic materials, and much more. Many of our clients also design simulation software in multiple areas of physics, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), aero and hydro acoustics, and more. The technology these best-of-breed design and engineering firms have developed are applicable to many areas of interest to scientists, engineers, technologists, and educators. We’re proud to support game-changing organizations with the necessary HPC cloud hardware systems they need to build the best of the best, while giving them immediate, frontend access to a variety of CFD applications, including Ansys Fluent, Star CCM, CFD++, and OpenFOAM, as well as Finite Element Analysis (FAE) applications, like Abaqus FEA, COMSOL Multiphysics, and SimScale.

NZO Cloud HPC Instances

Starter configuration for under $100k

200 Intel or AMD Processor Cores 4 GB of Memory Per Processor Core 100 Gbps High-Speed Network (Intel Omnipath or Mellanox Infiniband) 10 TB High-Performance Flash Storage 40 TB Long Term / Secondary Storage CBeST Cloud Management Toolkit Linux Cloud Operating System Message Passing Libraries Batch Scheduled Complete 3 Year Service Level Agreement.

While some SMBs might be hesitant to deploy a private cloud platform due to the lack of an internal IT department or perceived level of complexity, these concerns are easily put to rest when partnering with the right cloud provider. NZO Cloud’s goal is to deliver the most turnkey, highest performance, headache-free HPC cloud experience possible. Our NZO Cloud HPC Clusters include all necessary cloud-based hardware, software, and networking integrated by 20+ year HPC cloud experts. “We are very proud of our 57-step testing and integration process, which is considered one of the industry’s most rigorous,” begins Larry Lesser, NZO Cloud Chief Technology Officer. “The results of this painstaking process are evident with a record of never delivering a DOA system and a consistently proven 99.99% system uptime.” NZO Cloud stands firmly behind their cloud-based product with a complete hardware and software service level agreement for up to five years. Because NZO Cloud is both the cloud provider of the hardware and developer of system software, SMBs have one phone number to call for immediate access to knowledgeable cloud support.

Cloud providers and brokers will continue to try scaring SMBs into believing that they are incapable of supporting a private cloud HPC cloud solution. They may argue the merits of using offerings from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will save companies significant cost, offer superior performance and greater scalability, but they’re wrong. SMBs in the Design & Engineering space are comprised of highly intelligent and experienced engineers who can evaluate the numbers on their own and are not easily swayed. Companies who choose the cloud over on-premises cloud models are accepting ever-expanding monthly bills, loss of control and governance, and lower security, while allowing their data to be completely at the mercy of a third party. With the threat of cyber-attacks ever-looming, putting critical and confidential data on the cloud is possibly one of the most irresponsible things SMBs could do. A quick read of the “Cloud Hopper” investigation by the Wall Street Journal should serve as a stark warning.

More and more SMBs are deploying HPC cloud systems than ever before. Private cloud, high-performance supercomputers are well within the grasp of design & engineering organizations of all sizes. SMBs need to utilize these cloud-based tools to develop new products, win more contracts, and push their businesses forward.