Why Use Managed Services
High Performance Computing has arrived. In times past, HPC clusters were built and operated by large organizations with specialized HPC knowledge. Dedicated cluster administrators spent years painfully learning their craft, in many cases writing their own tools and making up their own rule book about how a cluster should operate as they went along. Codes were mostly written in-house, with a huge amount of time invested in each to make them run at all, much less run well. Times have changed.
Today, the HPC cluster is used for many purposes, and generally available high quality models are available from many different sources that can solve your computing needs. Be it a commercial application or a scientific code from a University, chances are that a code exists that addresses your particular computing issue. Even if your code has been developed in-house, many of your developers may have "grown up" with parallel computing, and understand industry standards and tools such as MPI and OpenMP that they use as a framework to solve your particular issues.
These changes have resulted in the explosion of HPC technology into the workplace, where it is becoming a common tool for more and more industries and disciplines. So you know how your code works, and you know what to do with the data. What if you don't have that experienced HPC administrator, or only have one part time? What if your administrator is new to HPC administration, and needs a little help getting up to speed? Aspen can help.
If you need the power of a high-performance cluster, but don't have fully trained cluster management personnel available, Aspen Systems Managed Services may be for you.
Aspen Managed Services can be provided with as much or as little assistance as you require, from functioning as your backup administrator while your administrator takes a well-earned vacation, to full remote management of your new or existing clusters.
