High Performance Computing (HPC)
Run complex workloads, such as advanced simulations and other scientific applications, cost-effectively on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) HPC platform. The OCI HPC platform brings together industry-leading bare metal instances, ultralow-latency networking, and high performance storage that rivals the performance of on-premises solutions.
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Why choose OCI HPC?
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Leading price-performance
OCI bare metal instances, not available from other cloud providers, coupled with microsecond-latency RDMA cluster networking provide 50% better price-performance and 3.5X time savings for HPC workloads compared with previous-generation compute.
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Options for every workload
OCI provides bare metal instances powered by Intel CPUs, AMD CPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs for various demanding workloads, including AI/ML, complex mathematical simulations, and big data analytics.
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Rich partner ecosystem
Oracle works closely with an array of partners across industries and with open source projects to support customers and provide proven solutions for a wide array of HPC tasks.
High performance computing platform
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Bare metal instances
OCI bare metal instances provide industry-leading core performance, network bandwidth, isolation, visibility, and control to run computationally intensive workloads.
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Cluster networking
High-speed RDMA cluster networking powered by Mellanox’s ConnectX-5 100 Gb/sec network interface cards with RDMA over Converged Ethernet v2 allows you to create large clusters of bare metal instances.
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GPU instances
OCI offers high performance virtual machines and bare metal instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs for graphics-intensive workloads for rendering, AI workloads, and deep learning workloads.
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Optimized HPC instances
Bare metal HPC and optimized shapes are designed for workloads that require high-frequency processor cores and hardware acceleration.
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HPC file systems
Oracle makes it easy to deploy BeeGFS, GlusterFS, IBM Spectrum Scale, and Lustre high performance file systems that can deliver up to 453 GB/sec aggregate throughput to HPC clusters.
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Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Oracle Cloud Marketplace gives customers the ability to evaluate, select, and deploy end-to-end solutions seamlessly while automating the deployment process for HPC solutions.
HPC solutions by industry
Oracle built the infrastructure and services in the cloud to support enterprise-class customers' needs across multiple industries and industry use cases.
Manufacturing
HPC on OCI allows our manufacturing customers to run larger workloads faster and support more computationally complex simulations. From crash-test simulations to aerodynamics, HPC on OCI provides the compute capability to run these workloads at a higher performance than any other cloud provider.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
CFD is a common workload that simulates the motion of air and fluid to simplify and speed product engineering. For example, in the automotive sector, it helps manufacturers simulate cabin airflow, engine oil dynamics, and the air flow around the car to improve fuel efficiency. It is a tightly coupled MPI-based workload that benefits from Oracle’s 100 Gbps cluster networking, high-frequency Intel processor-based compute instances, and the latest NVIDIA GPUs.
Life sciences simulations on OCI
Molecular dynamics (MD) and genomic simulations are routine workloads of the life sciences industry. These simulations analyze the physical movements of atoms and molecules and are utilized in use cases like drug discovery. By moving these computationally intensive workloads to OCI, researchers can achieve the best possible performance, meet scale requirements, and reduce the time for discovering new treatments, which can offer cost savings.
Financial services
Financial applications, including trading applications, require high-performance, low-latency infrastructure. These applications were not a design goal of early cloud architectures, and they have been slow to move to the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides the performance characteristics, such as sub-2-microsecond in-cluster latency these applications require, rivaling custom-built and expensive on-premises solutions.
Visual effects rendering
High performance computing provides the horsepower for today’s omnipresent visual effects. From special effects in movies to TV ads and the latest PC and console game titles, all are developed by media companies who need HPC and GPU performance on-demand. OCI offers HPC and GPU-powered bare metal instances like NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstation that deliver consistent performance in line with expensive high-end graphics workstations at a lower cost.
Higher education and research
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s supercomputing platform gives researchers access to bare metal NVIDIA GPUs, high performance computing instances, and a low-latency clustered network. Researchers can create clusters for running large-scale computations to accelerate the research in multiple branches of science and engineering like drug discovery, genomics, weather forecasting, space exploration, and more. Through programs like Oracle for Research, Oracle is working closely with research organizations like the University of Bristol and the Royal Holloway University of London to help accelerate the development of vaccines and advanced solutions that address climate change.
