Supercomputing by Subscription is designed to help organisations gain better insights, manage costs, and improve performance. Our platform provides a range of tools tailored to your HPC estate, making complex management easier.
With transparent pricing, you can track resource usage, control budgets, and ensure top performance across projects. From advanced management features to easy-to-use tools for end users, our subscription offers everything you need to manage HPC environments smoothly. Let’s dive deeper into the key components.
Birds-Eye View: Insight Into Your HPC Estate
Our Birds-Eye View gives you an overview of their entire HPC service, showing how different elements such as resources, costs and carbon impact are interconnected.
This view helps to:
- Spot patterns and trends in resource usage.
- Understand how different projects or departments are using resources.
- Make informed decisions about resource allocation to align with overall goals.
This broad perspective allows you to manage resources effectively, preventing small inefficiencies turning into larger problems over time.
Alces Cloud Resources: Enhanced Performance
Access to Alces Cloud’s resource library allows for a seamless expansion of your HPC estate with sustainable cloud resources and clear up-front costs.
These tools allow you to:
- Improve the overall performance of your HPC estate.
- Add resources to the existing system.
- Quickly adjust resource allocation to match project demands.
Budget Management: Control Over Costs and Carbon
Managing budgets is crucial for any HPC estate, and Alces provides tools to make it easier. You can allocate resources, set budgets for teams or projects, and track usage in real time.
With Budget Management, you can:
- Assign resources and budgets to specific teams, projects or departments, allowing for clear cost tracking.
- Get up to date insights on how much carbon each project is consuming, helping prevent resources overuse.
- Our platform tracks the environmental cost of your operations, helping you achieve sustainability goals.
By having this detailed view of both costs and carbon impact, you can ensure resources are used efficiently, staying within both financial and environmental limits.
Optimisation and Monitoring: Maximising Efficiency
The platform’s optimisation and monitoring tools ensure that your HPC estate is running as efficiently as possible. By keeping an eye on resource utilisation, you can make adjustments that help reduce costs and improve performance.
These tools allow you to:
- Monitor how well your resources are being utilised.
- See which teams or projects are nearing budget limits.
- Save costs by using power management to turn off idle resources.
With these insights, you can make sure your resources are used efficiently, saving money and energy.
End-User Tools: Easy Access for Everyone
One of the platform’s key features is its focus on accessibility for users with all levels of technical experience. End-User Tools are designed to make it easy for anyone, whether you’re an expert or a newcomer.
With these tools, users can:
- Launch and manage virtual clusters for their workloads.
- Track performance in real time.
- Quickly set up environments without complicated configurations.
This ensures that anyone, regardless of skill level, can make the most of HPC resources.
From improving resource utilisation and controlling costs to making HPC accessible to all team members, Supercomputing by Subscription is built to meet your needs, whatever the scale of your project. If you’re ready to take control of your HPC estate, contact Alces Flight today.