Top 20 HPC Solution Providers 2022

High-performance computing (HPC) is a technology that harnesses the power of supercomputers or computer clusters to solve complex problems requiring massive computation. HPC refers to the practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher horsepower than traditional computers and servers. HPC, or “supercomputing,” is like everyday computing, only more powerful. It is a way of processing huge volumes of data at very high speeds by using multiple computers and storage devices as a cohesive fabric. HPC makes it possible to explore and find answers to some of the world’s biggest problems in science, engineering, and business.

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When it comes to high-performance computing, the future is nearer than you think. High-performance computers support and enable transformative technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain systems. The application of HPCs has recently yielded unprecedented results in the field of protein folding, using AI to solve a problem that has stumped scientists for more than fifty years. Today’s networks support extensive workloads in complex enterprise IT environments. With high-performance computing (HPC) and AI/deep learning applications, organizations are under pressure to meet increasing demands for faster compute cycles, higher data transfer rates, and excellent connectivity. Computing technology is the backbone of modern businesses. Modern high-performance computing (HPC) utilizes supercomputers and parallel processing techniques to quickly complete time-consuming tasks or multiple tasks simultaneously.

In addition, strict security measures require higher levels of encryption. And, as users rely on these systems to do more, they expect them to work seamlessly and efficiently. With increased complexity comes increased demand for bandwidth and throughput, which requires a network infrastructure that can keep up with today’s workloads. That’s why high-performance computing focuses on improving all aspects of the system and efficiency. HPC systems are designed for tasks that require large amounts of computational power so that they can perform these tasks more quickly than other types of computers. They also consume less energy than traditional computers, making them better suited for use in remote locations or environments with limited access to electricity.

However, it can be difficult for businesses to find the right HPC solution providers in an already crowded industry with so many. This is where ICON Outlook magazine’s HPC special edition comes in. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most innovative and creative HPC solution providers. The companies listed below were selected by our team of experts. 

Adaptive Computing

Management: Arthur Allen

Designation: President & CEO

Headquarters: Provo, UT

Website: adaptivecomputing.com

Adaptive Computing's workload and resource orchestration software platform, Moab, is a world leader in dynamically optimizing large-scale computing environments. Moab intelligently places workloads and adapts resources to optimize application performance, increase system utilization and achieve organizational objectives. Moab's unique intelligent and predictive capabilities evaluate the impact of future orchestration decisions across diverse workload domains (HPC, HTC, Big Data, and Cloud VMs); thereby optimizing cost reduction, speeding product delivery and driving a competitive advantage.

Altair

Management: James.R.Scapa

Designation: Founder, Chairman & CEO

Headquarters: Troy, MI

Website: altair.com

Altair has a powerful collection of web services, edge intelligence, and analytics tools for companies who want to quickly develop scalable IoT-based solutions and improve those intelligently throughout their lifetime. In tandem with engineering simulation and data analytics, it empowers you to create applications like digital twins – digital replicas of objects, processes, and more, helping you gain operational insights, reduce the cost of product design as well as operation, and plan predictive maintenance to improve the remaining useful life (RUL) of your product.

Cascade Technologies

Management: Frank Ham

Designation: President & CEO

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA

Website: cascadetechnologies.com

Cascade Technologies develops multi-physics computational fluid dynamics software for turbulent flow analysis in engineering applications. Cascade’s solvers use a time-dependent approach called Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to deliver accuracy and fidelity not found in most commercial CFD tools. Realizing the predictive benefits of LES requires much more than just turning on time dependence and changing the turbulence model.

CIQ

Management: Gregory M. Kurtzer

Designation: Co-founder & CEO

Headquarters: McLean, VA

Website: ciq.co

CIQ provides Enterprise-Grade Support for some of the world’s leading industry-standard software solutions.

Classiq Technologies

Management: NIR MINERBI

Designation: Co-Founder & CEO

Headquarters: Tel Alviv, IL

Website: classiq.io

Classiq Technologies develops automation and synthesis of quantum algorithms. The Company also provides a revolutionary Quantum Algorithm Design software platform for the automated synthesis of quantum circuits.

ClusterVision

Management: Alex Ninaber

Designation: Founder & CEO

Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website: clustervision.com

ClusterVision specializes in the design, build, and management of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.ClusterVision is Europe’s dedicated specialist for high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. By combining cutting-edge hardware and software components with a range of customized professional services, They create and maintain top-quality, efficient, and reliable HPC solutions. Based in Amsterdam, ClusterVision has grown into a multi-million euro international operation with offices in the UK, France, and Germany.

Excelero

Management: Yaniv Romem

Designation: Co-Founder & CEO

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel

Website: excelero.com

Excelero developed NVMesh, a software platform that manages and secures virtual arrays of NVMe flash drives as block storage available across public and private clouds. The software supports Kubernetes containers.

Exotanium

Management: Hakim Weatherspoon

Designation: Co-Founder & CEO

Headquarters: Ithaca, NY

Website: exotanium.io

Exotanium is dedicated to developing the future of affordable cloud computing technology that empowers enterprises to command a finer level of control over their cloud computing resources. Exotanium, Inc. is a cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 90% while enhancing both operational security and performance.

Green Revolution Cooling

Management: Peter Poulin

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: Austin, TX

Website: grcooling.com

Green Revolution Cooling provides computer hardware manufacturing services. Perfected over more than a decade, our innovative, liquid-cooled server racks have been vetted by IT giants such as Dell, Intel, and Vertiv, all of who we’ve come to partner with, and are at work in some of the world’s largest cloud, enterprise, education, government, and telecom organizations.

Inspire Semiconductor

Management: Ron Van Dell

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: Austin, TX

Website: inspiresemi.com

New standards of speed, efficiency, and flexibility Existing HPC, AI, and blockchain compute solutions are no longer “good enough”. They are painfully slow, hard to program, expensive, and power hungry. InspireSemi is poised to set new standards of speed, flexibility, and efficiency for blockchain, engineering/scientific/finance and AIapplications. Led by an accomplished team with a proven track record, and with the successful experience of our first ASIC platform, we are currently developing our second-generation compute solution.

NGX Storage

Management: Beyhan Çalışkan

Designation: Founder & CEO

Headquarters: Calgary, AB

Website: ngxstorage.com

NGX Storage delivers unified all-flash arrays and hybrid storage solutions for enterprises as a key enabler to build next-generation data infrastructures. Our built-in unified architecture serves to block, file, and object data simultaneously to achieve various data center workloads including server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, real-time analytics, and databases as well as backup and disaster recovery operations.

OSNEXUS

Management: Steven Umbehocker

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: Bellevue, WA

Website: osnexus.com

OSNEXUS focuses on continuous innovation with a strong focus on product quality and industry-leading support to ensure customer and partner success with every deployment. QuantaStor is sold worldwide through managed hosting providers, OEMs, VARs, and System Integrators. OSNEXUS helps organizations manage and scale their storage environments with greater efficiency, flexibility, and performance with its industry-leading QuantaStor™ Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform.

Parallel Works

Management: Mike Wilde

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: Chicago, IL

Website: parallelworks.com

Parallel Works makes HPC platforms highly productive and easy to use by your domain experts without programming efforts. It enables you to create and/or use powerful workflow automation solutions, custom-tailored for your business. Its technology has been used to create turnkey, pane-of-glass solutions for biomedical, AI, financial, logistics, engineering, materials science, and geospatial applications.

Pattern Computer

Management: Mark Anderson

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: Friday Harbor, WN

Website: patterncomputer.com

Pattern Computer is a pattern discovery company that discovers and generates valuable hypotheses and insights into complex data to transform business or research. They find novel patterns in complex data that cannot be discovered using conventional techniques or tools, even on exascale computers. The company's hypothesis-generating engine is prompting new ways of assessing and solving some of the most difficult and entrenched problems in medical research.

Penguin Computing

Management: Charles Wuischpard

Designation: President & CEO

Headquarters: SanFrancisco, CA

Website: penguinsolutions.com

Penguin Computing Inc. offers Linux software, systems, and services for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The company specializes in cluster virtualization. It offers rackmount servers, HPC cluster systems and software, storage solutions, and Linux workstations; peripherals, data protection, cluster interconnects, infrastructure management servers, and power management solutions; and Scyld ClusterWare HPC for the deployment and management of a Linux cluster.

QScale

Management: Martin Bouchard

Designation: Chairman & CEO

Headquarters: Québec, Canada

Website: qscale.com

QScale’s Q01 Campus supports a wide range of computing and cooling technologies for scalable and flexible deployments, all with unmatched power capacity and market-leading rates. By combining our expertise and cutting-edge building design with Quebec’s significant environmental and clean energy advantages, Q01 is at the forefront of innovation in green high-performance computing infrastructure.

Rescale

Management: Joris Poort

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: SanFrancisco, CA

Website: rescale.com

Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations. The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time to market. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice.

Supermicro

Management: Charles Liang

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: SanJose, CA

Website: supermicro.com

Super Micro Computer is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, and innovation is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for HPC, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro's advanced server building Block Solutions offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions.

Tachyum

Management: Dr. Radoslav Danilak

Designation: Co-Founder & CEO

Headquarters: San Jose, CA

Website: tachyum.com

Tachyum is a single processor that delivers industry performance for data center, AI, and HPC workloads. Tachyum’s Prodigy processor enables hyper-scale data centers, its primary market, to become a low cost, energy-efficient universal computing centers. Its data centers with the Prodigy universal processors will reduce their total cost of operations by a factor of 4x – saving each hyperscale customer billions of dollars per year.

Verne Global

Management: Dominic Ward

Designation: CEO

Headquarters: London, England

Website: verneglobal.com

Verne Global set out to tackle the data center industry’s fastest growing problem – the rising and unpredictable cost of power, as well as the availability of power sources. These factors, coupled with concerns over data center carbon emissions, led Verne Global to build an environmentally-friendly, competitively priced, data center campus, harnessing only renewable energy sources.