Linux and HPC cluster services

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To make your activities adapt to the continuously increasing needs of numerical computation as well as the wider and wider adoption of Linux systems, Luciol Technologies supports you to get the best of your computing resources and your IT infrastructure. You might for example want to replace a HPC solution, turn a pool of individual machines into a more efficient central HPC cluster, or invest into a brand new HPC cluster.

Our offer

  • Design of HPC cluster solutions:
    • based on Linux and free software1 ;
    • tailor-made for the computation workload ;
    • starting from two nodes ;
    • reusing existing equipment or not.
  • Audit, assessment and consultancy about Linux and HPC cluster solutions.
  • Authoring of clear and exhaustive technical documentation.
  • Team familiarization with the Linux environment by the means of knowledge sharing, training and skill transfer.

Examples of achievements

  • Replacement of the costly solution Bright Cluster Manager of a customer with a suite based on free software, with no recurring cost, on its ten nodes cluster. The solution also brings new functionalities of service continuity to avoid stopping computation jobs in case of maintenance or failure.
  • Setup of a self-hosting infrastructure on premise at Luciol Technologies, both internal and external (web servers), with full redundancy of services and data. This infrastructure is built upon ARM SoC boards2, similar to Raspberry Pi and requiring less than 10 watts per board.

Benefits

  • Higher use rate of computers and commercial licenses, or even reduction of their numbers, thanks to computation job queues running at night and week-end, and to permanent resource monitoring.
  • Increase of autonomy and independence capacity regarding to third parties, thanks to the almost exclusive use of free software1 and to knowledge sharing.
  • Reliability and security of systems, while taking back control over them is eased by solution minimalism.
  • Better match of IT equipment to computing needs.
  • Extended hardware service life, beyond ten years thanks to the use of Linux.

Let's talk!

Willing to take back control over your computation means? Write us at contact@luciol-technologies.com to talk about it.

  1. Free software is software whose license of use is granting software users the following four fundamental liberties without any counterpart: use, copy, distribute and modify software freely. ↩↩

  2. SoC = System on a Chip, a full system in a unique chip, widely used in smartphones. ↩