The Rise of On Demand High Performance Computing (HPC)
High Performance Computing (HPC) is changing. Not just because it’s maturing, becoming increasingly pervasive into many different areas of business, but because it’s becoming accessible to a new group...
View ArticleNear Real-Time: How Cloud is Shaping Cancer Treatment
In our last post, we talked about a new type of performance race in the information technology industry.
View ArticleInstalling Galaxy for Bioinformatics on AWS
One of the most often requested applications for the team at Alces Flight is Galaxy.
View ArticleBreaking the boundaries, saving lives: How cloud can prevent future crisis
In our last case study we talked about how the use of cloud in cancer therapy can push the accuracy of treatment for patients to near real-time.
View ArticleDesperately seeking Supercomputer
Alces Flight user Mike Croucher (aka Walking Randomly) had a dilemma.
View ArticleAlces Flight expands on-demand High Performance Computing capability to the...
Since releasing Alces Flight into public cloud in 2016 we have witnessed firsthand the evolution of HPC from a specialised field to a more diverse and inclusive arena. With the acceptance of public...
View ArticleAlces Flight is about to take off again!
We’ve been busy working on research and new solutions in HPC and are proud to announce we’ll be attending a host of events from May of this year showcasing our new products and ideas.
View ArticleISC19 Preview: HPC Community in Focus
We’ve been spending these past few months focused on research in cloud HPC— now it’s time to share!
View ArticleISC19: Alces’ Top 3 Insights
We’re back from Frankfurt to highlight the best of what we saw from show floor to workshops.
View ArticleCollaborating to Close the HPC Skills Gap
This September the Alces Flight Crew has been talking less technical, more practical, for delivering exceptional HPC within the Research Software Engineering (RSE) and Computational Biomedical...
View ArticleSupercomputing 2019: What’s on for Alces Flight
We’re officially exhibiting at SC’19 in Denver. Here’s a day-by-day breakdown of where we are, what we’re up to, and how you can get certified in our latest open-source toolset.
View ArticleAlces Flight HPC Year in Review
From cloud acceptance to open-source to closing the skills gap, this is the Alces Flight 2019 Year in Review.
View ArticleMove it, but don’t lose it.
Re-Creating the Barkla HPC Cluster in the Cloud during a Complete HPC Systems Relocation
View ArticleEducation, HPC, and the Cloud.
Our three part series on utilising the cloud for education in supercomputing kicks off with a look at the CompBioMed Center of Excellence.
View ArticleHigh Performance Computing goes Collaborative
Doing HPC all on your own is out — here’s why collaboration is in… and here to stay.
View ArticleBusiness as Unusual
It feels like it’s been all change in everything. High Performance Computing is no different — but change doesn’t have to be bad.
View ArticleBuilding on what’s come before in Supercomputing
Our ‘Business as Unusual’ series has a lot of research to thank before we kick-off in mid-September.
View ArticleAlces Flight to provide cloud HPC clusters for the first annual CIUK Student...
This first time virtual event will have students competing across different platforms in a quest to win sponsorship to the ISC HPC Student Cluster Competition in 2021.
View ArticleUniversity of Liverpool tapped for 2020 HPCwire Reader’s Choice Nomination
The nomination highlights the work by the Department of Eye & Vision Science and Advanced Research Computing (ARC) teams on building up their cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) service for...
View ArticleCIUK Student Cluster Competition starts off in EYPC fashion
Alces Flight provided a cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) environment built on Microsoft Azure that harnessed the newly available AMD EPYC2 (Rome) Series of Processors
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