Verne Global Delivers hpcDIRECT, a Purpose-Built, Industrial Scale HPC as a Service Platform

Fully optimised for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads,
hpcDIRECT addresses the need for scalable, adaptive compute

LONDON & KEFLAVIK, Iceland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verne
Global, a provider of highly optimised, secure, and 100% renewably
powered data center solutions, today announced the launch of its new
hpcDIRECT service. hpcDIRECT is a powerful, agile and efficient
HPC-as-a-service (HPCaaS) platform, purpose-built to address the intense
compute requirements of today’s data-driven industries. hpcDIRECT
provides a fully scalable, bare metal service with the ability to
rapidly provision the full performance of HPC servers uncontended and in
a secure manner.

“Building hpcDIRECT was a direct response to overwhelming demand from
our customers and tightly correlated with the market’s desire to move
from a CapEx to an OpEx model for high performance computing,” said
Dominic Ward, Managing Director at Verne Global. “With hpcDIRECT, we
take the complexity and capital costs out of scaling HPC and bring
greater accessibility and more agility in terms of how IT architects
plan and schedule their workloads.”

“hpcDIRECT has been designed and built from the outset by HPC
specialists for HPC applications. Whether deployed as stand-alone
compute or used as a bare metal extension to existing in-house HPC
infrastructure, hpcDIRECT provides an industry-leading solution that
combines best-in-class design with our HPC optimised, low cost
environment and location.”

hpcDIRECT is accessible via a range of options, from incremental
additions to augment existing high performance computing, to supporting
massive processing requirements with petaflops of compute. This
flexibility makes it an ideal solution for applications such as
computer-aided engineering, genomic sequencing, molecular modelling,
grid computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

hpcDIRECT is available with no upfront charges and can be provisioned
rapidly to the size and configuration needed. hpcDIRECT clusters are
built using the latest architectures available including Intel’s Xeon
(Skylake) processors, and fast intercore connectivity using Mellanox
Infiniband and Ethernet networks, with storage and memory options to
suit each customer’s needs.

Since Verne Global began operations in early 2012, the company has been
at the forefront of data center design and technology, bringing new,
innovative thinking and infrastructure to the industry. hpcDIRECT is the
latest product in this cycle, and is perfectly optimised for companies
operating high performance and intensive computing across the world’s
most advanced industries.

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About Verne Global

Verne Global provides highly optimised, secure, scalable and 100%
renewably-powered data centre solutions offering forward thinking
organisations significant and long-term cost savings. Combining
Iceland’s natural attributes with innovative design, Verne Global
addresses the challenges faced by intensive and high-performance
computing in the world's most advanced industries. To learn more, visit www.verneglobal.com.

Contacts

Witz Communications (for Verne Global)
Richard M. Williams,
919-435-9110
[email protected]