Introducing ClusterVisor, Our Cluster Management Tool

Advanced Clustering Technologies is proud to present ClusterVisor, our new HPC cluster management tool, which enables you to easily deploy your HPC cluster and manage everything from the hardware and operating system to software and networking using a single GUI. ClusterVisor is based on years of feedback from our customers and gives you everything you […]

Advanced Clustering installs Bell’s Kiowa cluster

    We were on-site recently at Bell installing their new Kiowa cluster.  Named for Bell’s renowned OH-58D Kiowa aircraft, their new system is powered by Advanced Clustering’s ACTblade x210 compute nodes and ACTserv x2280c GPU nodes.

AMD EPYC Delivers a No-Compromise, Single-Socket Server

The latest iteration of AMD’s EPYC processor architecture, known as Rome, will cause you to re-think some of the assumptions you have about deploying dual-socket servers rather than single-socket servers. Traditionally, it’s been true that a single-socket CPU doesn’t support enough PCIe lanes to connect sufficient NVMe devices or graphics processors for their needs. Therefore, […]

AMD’s EPYC Rome Posts Benchmarks on Popular HPC Applications

AMD is sharing a series of benchmarking results now that the new EPYC 7002 series “Rome” processors are launched and available. Two of the applications are of particular interest to our customers, who frequently use WRF and GROMACS. Weather Modeling with WRF The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model application is a weather prediction system […]

Advanced Clustering Technologies Now Offering AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processor-based Systems

Kansas City, Mo. (Aug. 7, 2019) – Advanced Clustering Technologies, a provider of custom, turn-key high performance computing hardware solutions, announced today that it is offering AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series based systems. “Our new series of ACTserv systems will deliver 128 PCI-e lanes and up to 64 cores per socket. These are perfect for your […]

Sharing Our Analysis of the Complexities of RFP Writing for HPC

Advanced Clustering was invited to make a presentation during the recent SIGHPC Sysadmin Professionals workshop that took place on the first day of PEARC19 last month in Chicago. Our discussion focused on our analysis of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) that we received in 2018. Among our key findings: 48 days is the average number of days that […]

Come and see us at PEARC19 later this month in Chicago

Advanced Clustering Technology representatives will be on hand later this month for PEARC19 in Chicago. The company is serving as a Bronze Sponsor for the event, which takes place July 28 – Aug. 1 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown. Registration for the conference is still available here: https://www.pearc19.pearc.org. Advanced Clustering will have a table in the […]

CFD-optimized Car Earns High Marks for University of Toronto Formula Racing Team

Using designs it spent months optimizing on the ACTnowHPC cloud, the University of Toronto Formula Racing Team has been able to make big advances in the design and performance of the vehicle they are taking to competitions this year. “Through our use of ACTnowHPC, we have expedited, optimized and improved many aspects of our program,” […]

Scientific Computing World Features eQUEUE Among Innovative HPC user tools

Scientific Computing World is featuring eQUEUE, Advanced Clustering Technologies web-based job submission tool, among the innovative tools HPC users can leverage to manage their computing resources more effectively. In its June/July edition, which was published today, the publication wrote: “Alongside the hardware and software improvements that can help to increase real application performance, HPC providers […]

Advanced Clustering Attending PEARC19 as a Bronze Sponsor

Come and see us next month at the Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEAR19) conference, which takes place July 28 – Aug. 1 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. The theme for this year’s event is Rise of the Machines (Learning). Advanced Clustering will be on hand to talk about our custom, turn-key […]

Come and See Us at the Great Plains Network meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Great Plains Network will take place next Tuesday through Thursday right here in Kansas City. Advanced Clustering Technologies is proud to be a Bronze Sponsor of the event this year. We hope to see you at our exhibitor table during the conference. Information technology professionals from all across the Midwest […]

Meet our most powerful workstation, the ACTstation x250

Our most powerful workstation is the ACTstation x250, which gives you the power of HPC on your desktop. This workstation is quiet and air cooled. 
Holds up to two NVIDIA GPUs. Key features of this workstation: 2x up to 56 core Intel Xeon SP (Cascade Lake) 12x DDR4 2933MHz DIMM sockets (Max: 768 GB) 8x 3.5″SATA,NVMe […]

Configure your next HPC system with Cascade lake processors

Our online Configurator has been updated to include all of our HPC systems that feature the next generation of Intel Xeon scalable processors (code name Cascade Lake). You can check out everything including: The ACTblade x210 system, which provides up to four independent compute nodes in one chassis. This blade is ideal as a compute […]

Updated: Your Guide to Pricing for the Latest HPC Systems

For several years now our HPC Pricing Guide has been helping our customers get a sense for the cost of HPC hardware. This week we updated the guide to incorporate the new generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Cascade Lake, into the systems. Our HPC Pricing Guide gives you the specifications and costs associated with purchasing […]

Introducing the next generation of Intel processors – Cascade Lake

Today marks the official launch of the new generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, code named Cascade Lake. Advanced Clustering’s HPC solutions now feature the new Cascade Lake processors, which deliver high levels of compute density and scalability. Cascade Lake AP features multiple enhancements for HPC workloads. Cascade Lake delivers advanced performance with up to 28 […]

Intel offers sneak peek of Cascade Lake

Here’s a sneak peek that Intel offered during SC18 for Cascade Lake microarchitecture, their first to support 3D XPoint-based memory modules. It also will feature Deep Learning Boost instructions. The next-generation Cascade Lake advanced performance processor, optimized to support the most demanding data workloads, and highlighted the use of Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory in […]

Download our white paper compendium: Securing a grant and writing an RFP for HPC

Use our experience and resources to learn best practices for securing grant funding and publishing your RFP for high performance computing purchases. You can download the compendium here. Grant funding is how many high performance computing cluster purchases are accomplished, and the grant proposal writing process is incredibly competitive. In fact, based on the past […]

Today we celebrate 18 years in business

Advanced Clustering Technologies is celebrating 18 years of operation today. We want to thank our customers and technology partners as we celebrate this milestone. “We have seen a lot of changes in high performance computing as an industry since 2001, but our core focus as a systems integrator has never changed,” said company president Kyle […]

Tech Tip: Sync Users Across Nodes

Any time you add a new user on your cluster’s head node or make changes to an existing user, you will need to synchronize those changes across the entire cluster. Advanced Clustering makes this a simple task by using our act_authsync utility.  Learn how to do this in this tech tip. Did you miss a tech tip? […]

Plan your next HPC system with our Configurator

When you are making plans for your next HPC hardware purchase, finding the right balance between price and performance can prove challenging. You can start making plans for your next HPC system using our online Configurator. From the Product Catalog, you can click the Configure button to begin using the Configurator for any of our […]

Government shutdown shutters National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is among the federal agencies that was closed last month when the federal government shut down. The timing is particularly unfortunate for those grant applicants who are seeking funding for high performance computing hardware. The deadline for Major Research Implementation grants is Jan. 22. If you were writing a grant proposal […]

HPC provides economic return on investment, study finds

A recent study from the IDC finds that an investment in high performance computing results in increased economic success and increased scientific innovation for universities, government agencies and corporate entities. Across all industries measured in the study, there’s an average increase in revenue of $463 per dollar invested in HPC, and an average increase of […]

Wrapping up our week at SC18

Another Supercomputing is in the books, and we enjoyed seeing so many of our customers and fellow HPC practitioners at SC18 in Dallas. We want to thank each of you who took the time to visit our booth in the Exhibit Hall for a quick conversation or a meeting. For those we missed us, we […]

Advanced Clustering Receives BeeGFS Rising Bee Award at SC18

Advanced Clustering Technologies today received the BeeGFS Rising Bee Award as fastest growing partner for 2018 during a ceremony at the BeeGFS booth at Supercomputing 2018 in Dallas. BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is the leading high-performance parallel cluster file system, delivered by ThinkParQ and developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer HPC. Advanced Clustering partnered with ThinkParQ in […]

Collect your commemorative pins at Supercomputing 2018

Intel has launched a new campaign to encourage Supercomputing 2018 attendees to visit the exhibit hall booths of Intel partners. The company has produced commemorative BunnyPeople™ lapel pins specifically for the SC18 event, which starts tonight with a Welcome Reception at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. The event concludes Thursday afternoon. SC18 attendees […]

University of Toronto runs CFD simulations on ACTnowHPC cloud to optimize Formula SAE car design

The University of Toronto Formula SAE Racing Team is a student‐run club focused on designing, building and competing with an open‐wheeled race car at Formula Student competitions held globally. In early 2018 the student team partnered with Advanced Clustering Technologies to make use of the company’s on-demand cloud solution, ACTnowHPC. Using Simulia’s Star-CCM+ to run […]

NSF Awards Nearly $16 million in MRI Grants for HPC in 2018

Advanced Clustering Technologies tracks awards made by the National Science Foundation every year because some of the Major Research Instrumentation grants are awarded to customers for the acquisition of high performance computing hardware. This year, the company noted, has been an unusual year for MRI grants for HPC. “We have seen an increase in allocations […]

Exhibiting Our Turn-Key HPC Solutions at SC18

Advanced Clustering Technologies is exhibiting in booth 3741 at SC18, which takes place Nov. 11-16 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. Visit our booth to learn about our clusters, servers, storage solutions and workstations. We will also be highlighting our on-demand HPC cloud solution, ACTnowHPC. If you are planning to acquire HPC […]

Volatility in HPC Pricing Expected to Continue

A number of factors are contributing to what is expected to be a volatile pricing environment for high performance computing’s immediate future. Topping the list of determining factors is the latest round of tariffs on products manufactured in China including computer components, which are expected to bring a 10% increase in price. More than 5,745 products […]

Help for those applying for NSF MRI grants

For those seeking funding for high performance computing equipment, the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves as an opportunity to gain access to scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training. As the current round of funding is currently being announced, we set our eyes on the next opportunity. Applications for […]

Tech Support Advisory: Read Before Updating Kernel to 7.5

When updating the kernel to 3.10.0-862.11.1.el7 through 3.10.0-8.62.11.6.el7, there’s a bug where InfiniBand or Omni-Path cards do not come back up after a kernel update (i.e. they cannot communicate with the rest of the IB/OPA network). This will be accompanied by the message “failed to modify QP to RTR: -22” in either dmesg or /var/log/messages. Diagnostic Steps Run […]

RMACC Panel Highlights Best Practices for RFP Writing

Advanced Clustering joined a panel of HPC experts for a discussion called “Best practices for writing an RFP for HPC Hardware Purchases” today at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium symposium at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The session took place at 10:30 a.m. and was moderated by Thomas Hauser, Director of Research Computing University of […]

What Kind of Storage is Best for Your Needs?

When was the last time you evaluated your current storage and made plans for future growth? Contact us to let our experts configure the perfect system for you, whether it’s our direct-attach storage boxes or one of our high-performance scalable parallel file systems. Contact us for a storage discussion. You can also view and configure and […]

Still time to order before FY19 ends Sept. 30

If your fiscal year ends Sept. 30, there is still time to order hardware. Advanced Clustering will be closing the books on the fiscal year for our government customers in early September for smaller single system orders and early to mid-August for HPC clusters. Do you still have money to spend? If so, we should talk […]

Intel Discontinues Knights Landing Xeon Phi

Intel has just announced that it is discontinuing the Knights Landing or KNL Intel® Xeon Phi™, which was Intel’s first processor to deliver the performance of an accelerator with the benefits of a standard host CPU. The product change notification includes the discontinuation of the following Knights Landing socketed 7200-series Xeon line, including the following part numbers: 7210, […]

Advanced Clustering to exhibit and present at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium Symposium

Advanced Clustering Technologies will be exhibiting at the eighth annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium symposium Aug. 7-9 on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder. RMACC is a collaborative event among academic and research institutions located throughout the Rocky Mountain region that use high performance computing. Dr. Rick Stevens, a director of Argonne National […]

PEARC18 takes place July 22-26 in Pittsburgh

The second annual Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC18) conference takes place July 22-26 at the Wyndham Grand Downtown in Pittsburgh. PEARC18 brings together scientists, engineers, scholars, artists, students and teachers for a program focused on the “efficiency, security, reliability and sustainability of increasingly complex and powerful digital infrastructure systems.” The theme of […]

Read all about our latest HPC deployments

You can read about some of our latest HPC cluster deployments in the “In the News” section of our website. This page features Advanced Clustering headlines from other websites including industry sites and announcements from some of our customers. The page features articles about some of our recent HPC deployments including: Portland State University’s new Coeus […]

Start your free trial on our HPC Cloud today

ACTnowHPC provides on-demand cloud high performance computing that gives you the freedom to scale a solution to fit your changing computational needs. There’s no complicated setup. Get online and start running your workload in minutes. ACTnowHPC gives you on demand, pay as you go access to the latest HPC technology in the cloud. Experience the power […]

DURIP grant proposals due July 6

If you are finalizing your proposal for the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) FY19 solicitation and need a quote for HPC equipment, you can contact us for help. Final proposals are dueFriday, July 6, 2018. Contact us for help with your proposal. We can provide a consultation and quote. The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) supports university research infrastructure […]

Introducing our new ACTblade x130

Advanced Clustering Technologies has just introduced a new product offering to our line of blade servers. The ACTblade x130 is a 2U, 4-node blade that provides up to 4 independent compute nodes with 24 drives in one chassis. This blade combines storage, networking and computing in a single system to increase scalability and reduce datacenter […]

Advanced Clustering Teams with ThinkparQ to Integrate BeeGFS

Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced that is has partnered with ThinkParQ to integrate the BeeGFS parallel file system as part of the company’s high performance computing solutions for HPC workloads. The parallel file system solves storage access speed issues that can decrease performance of the fastest supercomputers. BeeGFS spreads user data across multiple servers. By […]

Video: RFP Writing for HPC Equipment Purchases

Watch video excerpts of the panel discussion on RFP writing for HPC Hardware purchases that took place at CADRE 2018 on April 18 at Oklahoma State University. Panelists included (from left) Dr. Dana Brunson of Oklahoma State University, Doug Jennewein of the University of South Dakota, Jim Paugh of Advanced Clustering Technologies and Mark McClung, Data […]

Introducing Our New Skylake Workstations

New to our production line are two Skylake-enabled workstations. Our single socket workstation ACTstation x110 can support up to 2x GPUs. Is water-cooled and whisper-quiet with up to 18 cores
 and up to 512 GB of memory. The ACTstation x150 is our most powerful workstation, giving you the power of HPC on your desktop.

Notes from CADRE 2018 at Oklahoma State U.

Advanced Clustering travelled to Stillwater, Oklahoma this week for the second annual Coalition for Advancing Digital Research & Education (CADRE) event, which opened with a reception Tuesday night and concluded Wednesday after a day of educational sessions. The CADRE conference brings together regional research computing professionals, librarians, researchers, educators, and students interested in advancing digital […]

Wright State University’s HPC Cluster: ‘It’s here. It’s Ready.”

Wright State University has just announced that its new high performance computing cluster is ready to support research across campus. “It’s here. It’s ready,” said Amit Sharma, an assistant professor of physics who led efforts to get the cluster. “I’m delighted.” Advanced Clustering Technologies built and installed the Wright State cluster. It consists of 36 […]

White Paper: Writing an RFP for HPC Equipment Purchases

Advanced Clustering Technologies has just published a free white paper called “Best Practices for  Writing an RFP for the Acquisition of High Performance Computing Equipment” that provides comprehensive guidance for successfully writing a Request for Proposal (RFP). The white paper is available at advancedclustering.com. Writing a request for proposal (RFP) for the purchase of high […]

New Knowledge Base Article Explains Updating Firmware on ACT Intel System

Advanced Clustering’s HPC engineers have just written a new article for our high performance computing Knowledge Base. “Updating Firmware on Your ACT Intel System” explains the process of using the package in our YUM repository to apply firmware updates and scripts. Read the full knowledge base article.  It’s now easier than ever before to update […]

Attending the Thermal & Fluids Engineering Conference

New HPC Cluster Deployed at Wright State University

Introducing ACTserv e1110

Meet ACTserv e1110, our latest dual-socket server featuring the AMD EPYC series of processors. This server is ideal for high memory and storage solutions. ACTserv e1110 features 128x PCIe lanes and gives you high core counts, high memory bandwidth and unparalleled support for high-speed input/output channels. Get full technical specifications and configure this server for your […]

ACT Attending ASTFE 2018 Next Month in Florida

Advanced Clustering will be attending the 2018 American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) Conference next month. Will we see you there? If you are planning to attend, let us know so that we can make plans to see you at the event, which takes place March 4–7, 2018 at the Nova Southeastern University in […]

Our Blog Recognized among Top 15 HPC Blogs

Our HPC blog has just been named among the Top 15 HPC blogs, according to FeedSpot.com. The site says it made it selections based on searches and social metrics from thousands of top HPC blogs in its index. The top 15 blogs are ranked based on following criteria: Google reputation and Google search ranking Influence […]

Request Your Copy of Our New HPC Pricing Guide

Want to know what kind of HPC cluster you can get for your money? Advanced Clustering’s new HPC Pricing Guide provides you with insights about the optimal HPC cluster available based on three budget amounts – $150,000, $250,000 and $500,000. The high performance computing solutions presented in the new HPC Pricing Guide feature the latest […]

High Performance Computing Trivia Challenge

Happy National Trivia Day to you! To commemorate the occasion, Advanced Clustering has created a five-question High Performance Computing Trivia Challenge. Ready, set, go: 1. What was the name of the first supercomputer? See the answer The CDC 6600 (built by Control Data Corporation in 1964) 2. Before that, what was the name of the […]

Request Our Help with Your NSF MRI Grant Proposal

Hurry! The deadline to submit a Major Research Implementation (MRI) grant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year is Jan. 29 – Feb. 5. Advanced Clustering Technologies has been helping our customers with grant proposals for more than 17 years now. Contact us today to request an HPC hardware quote that features the latest […]

Happy Holidays! We Look Forward to Serving Your HPC Needs in the New Year

All of us at Advanced Clustering Technologies wish you Happy Holidays. We were fortunate to see so many of you last month at SC17 in Denver. For those who didn’t attend, or didn’t have a chance to visit our booth, we welcome the opportunity to talk with you about your HPC plans for 2018. There […]

Writing a MRI Grant Proposal for the NSF? It’s Due Jan. 29-Feb. 5

The deadline for submitting grant proposals for the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Implementation has been extended to Jan. 20-Feb. 5. That’s good news for those of you who are planning to apply for a grant. Do you need help? We suggest you start by downloading a free copy of our white paper, Best Practices for […]

At SC17, HPC Hardware Takes Center Stage

Oklahoma State University Selects Advanced Clustering to Build New HPC Cluster

Oklahoma State University has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build and install its newest supercomputer, which will support computing- and data-intensive research across a broad range of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The new supercomputer, which will be named after the university’s mascot, Pistol Pete, will serve as a campus-wide shared resource, available […]

On the Fence about SC17? Request a Free Pass

SC17 takes place Nov. 12-16 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. There’s still time to register for the conference. If you are interested in checking out vendor booths in the Exhibit Hall, and don’t plan to attend any of the educational sessions, we can help. Advanced Clustering can provide you with an Exhibit Hall […]

University of South Dakota Gets HPC Cluster for Research Computing

The University of South Dakota has acquired a high performance computing cluster as a campus-wide resource available to faculty, staff and students as well as researchers across the state. Made possible by a $504,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and a $200,000 grant from the South Dakota Board of Regents, the new cluster is […]

Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium Takes Place This Week

Advanced Clustering Technologies is once again a proud sponsor of the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which takes place Sept. 26-27 on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman. The Symposium, now in its 16th year, starts with a Reception and Poster Session from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at Stephenson Research & Technology Center. A Supercomputing […]

Featured Product: ACTserv x1110

Our ACTserv x1110 supports high core count, high frequency cpus and offers a lot of fast storage. This server is ideal for use as a compute, storage or head node. You can learn more about ACTserv x1110 and make your own configuration selections on our site.

University of Southern Mississippi Gains Campus-Wide HPC Cluster for Research

The University of Southern Mississippi has acquired a supercomputer to support research and training in computational and data-enabled science and engineering. The acquisition was made possible through a $622,986 Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation. This new campus-wide cluster, which will be called Magnolia, is a high performance computing cluster with 1,896 […]

Nominate Innovators for the HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards

Nominations are now being accepted for the HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards, which recognize the best and brightest innovators within the global HPC community. This is your chance to shine a light on those who you feel have made the greatest achievements in HPC this year. Here are the categories for this year’s HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards: […]

Get Answers to Your HPC Questions in our Knowledge Base

Have questions about high performance computing? Check Advanced Clustering’s HPC Knowledge Base to see if we have the answers you seek. If we don’t, submit  your HPC questions to our team of HPC hardware engineers. Our HPC experts has been compiling articles for our HPC Knowledge Base for the past 17+ years to guide you through everything […]

Watch our Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Webinar

Advanced Clustering Technologies has developed a high-level webinar that offers a comprehensive look at the new Intel Xeon Scalable processor family of CPUs and systems. Watch this 36-minute webinar to learn: Where this next generation technology falls in the Intel Tick/Tock timeline? How do the new processors compare to the previous generation (known as “Broadwell”)? […]

Latest STAR-CCM+ Edition Available for Use on ACTnowHPC

Advanced Clustering Technologies has partnered with Siemens to offer the latest release of the company’s industry-leading engineering simulation software solution, STAR-CCM+®, to customers using Advanced Clustering’s on demand HPC cluster in the cloud, ACTnowHPC. STAR-CCM+ version 12.04 introduces Design Manager, which enables users to easily explore multiple design options within their CFD simulations, and STAR-Innovate […]

AVX-512 – a Key Feature of Intel’s Xeon Scalable Processors

The new Intel Xeon Scalable processors (known to many by the codename Skylake) feature Intel® AVX-512, which is a set of new instructions that can accelerate performance for workloads. Usages include scientific simulations, financial analytics and artificial intelligence. An article this week on HPCwire refers to AVX-512 as “a hidden gem” in Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors. AVX-512 […]

SC17 Panel Topics Announced

SC17 panel topics have just been announced for this year’s event, which takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver. The topics include: • How Serious Are We About the Convergence Between HPC and Big Data? • The ARM Software Ecosystem: Are We There Yet? • Reproducibility and Uncertainty in High Performance Computing • Best Practices for […]

Check out the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processor

Intel’s new Xeon Scalable processors officially launched today and feature multiple enhancements for HPC workloads. The new processors deliver advanced performance with up to 28 cores and significant increases in memory and I/O bandwidth (with six memory channels and 48 PCIe lanes) to handle extremely large compute- and data-intensive workloads. On this page you will meet […]

Registration Begins for SC17

This week registration opened for SC17, which takes place Nov. 12-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. If you’re planning to attend, now is the time to register and reserve your hotel room. Advanced Clustering Technologies will be exhibiting in booth 1976 on the Exhibit Hall floor. We will also be taking one-on-one meetings […]

DURIP Grant Proposals are Due July 7

The deadline for grant proposals made through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) is Friday, July 7. There’s still time to write your proposal, and we can help. The DURIP grant support university research infrastructure essential to high-quality Navy relevant research. The research instrumentation that is necessary to carry out cutting-edge research. DURIP grants […]

Advanced Clustering Integrating AMD EPYC processors into HPC servers

Advanced Clustering is exited to offer the next generation of processors from AMD — EPYC — in our ACTserv line of servers. EPYC features high core counts, high memory bandwidth and unparalleled support for high-speed input/output channels in a single chip. Our ACTserv systems will have up to 32 DIMM sockets for a max of […]

Photo: New 61-Node Cluster

Download the newly updated HPC Pricing Guide

Are you wondering about the cost of high performance computing or how far your budget will stretch when it is time to invest in hardware? Advanced Clustering has just finished updating our HPC Pricing Guide to reflect the latest costs for hardware components. Since we started offering the HPC Pricing Guide two years ago, it has […]

Meet us at SC17 this November in Denver

Advanced Clustering Technologies is exhibiting at SC17 this November at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Come and see us in booth 1976. We have also reserved dedicated meeting space across the street from the convention center for one-on-meetings. Contact us to request a meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Denver!

NSF Requests $60 Million for HPC in FY18 Budget

National Science Foundation Director France A. Córdova presented President Trump’s $6.65 billion NSF budget request for Fiscal Year 2018 to Congress on May 24. A portion of that amount, $60 million, is earmarked for use by the NSF to “continue investments to extend the frontiers of high-performance computing. This investment will support the acquisition and […]

Guest Blog: Dispelling the 7 Myths of Cloud

Wolfgang Gentzsch, President and Co-Founder of The UberCloud, has written an article in which he dispells the most popular myths about cloud computing. As Wolfgang writes, “In the early days, each cloud experiment took three months on average, and had a 50% failure rate. Today, our cloud experiments take just a few days, and have […]

5 Things You May Not Know about Advanced Clustering Technologies

1. Advanced Clustering built a free stress-test and hardware diagnostics tool. Breakin application is so powerful, it’s now used by several major component manufacturers in their validation and factory testing procedures. No other available product pinpoints hardware issues and component failures like Breakin. Every cluster built by Advanced Clustering Technologies undergoes a minimum of 24 hours running […]

Featured Product: Our HPC Compute Node

Our HPC Compute Node is ideal for use in hyper-converged, data analytics, storage, cloud and high performance computing applications. It has 2x up to 44 core Intel Xeon E5v4 (Broadwell) CPUs and 16x DDR4 2400MHz DIMM sockets (Max: 512 GB). Enclosure options include are 12- or 16-bay compute block enclosures. See full technical specifications, configure your ideal […]

Use the Configurator to Plan Your Ideal System

You can get a head start on planning your next HPC system using our online Configurator from within Advanced Clustering’s product catalog. From the Product Catalog, you can click the Configure button to begin using the Configurator for any of our servers, storage solutions or workstations. You can click the Compare+ button to compare products […]

Need large-capacity storage? Check out the Pinnacle 4X3601H36

Need large-capacity storage? Our Pinnacle 4X3601H36 offers space for up to 36 hot-swap drives, 32 of which can be configured as a single RAID volume. Ideal for use as a head node or storage node, our Pinnacle 4X3601H36 holds two of the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors, 512GB of 2400MHz DDR4 memory, up to […]

Three Reasons to Deploy NVIDIA Tesla P100 in Your Data Center

With traditional CPUs no longer delivering the performance gains they used to, the path forward for HPC data centers is GPU- accelerated computing. NVIDIA Tesla P100 powered by NVIDIA® PascalTM architecture is the computational engine for scientific computing and artificial intelligence. Here are three powerful reasons to deploy NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs to your data […]

Mellanox: InfiniBand Delivers up to 250% Higher ROI for HPC

Mellanox announced today that EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have demonstrated 30 to 250 percent higher HPC applications performance versus Omni-Path. This finding is the result of  performance tests conducted at end-user installations and the Mellanox benchmarking and research center. Examples of highly used HPC applications that were part of the testing include: GROMACS Molecular dynamics […]

In the News: Advanced Clustering Installs New Supercomputer at Clarkson University

Inside HPC reports on our latest installation – a new supercomputer at Clarkson University in New York. The cluster was built for Chen Liu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Liu won a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-person research team dedicated to acquiring a heterogeneous high performance computing cluster.

Advanced Clustering Receives 2017 Brick by Brick Award

New HPC Cluster Installed at Clarkson University

An Advanced Clustering team was on-site last week at Clarkson University to install a new cluster we built for Dr. Chen Liu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Liu was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-person research team dedicated to acquiring a heterogeneous high-performance computing cluster. […]

Video: Brunson Discusses Mission of Oklahoma HPC Center

In this video featured on InsideHPC.com, Dana Brunson from Oklahoma State talks about the mission of the Oklahoma High Performance Computing Center. The center is home to Cowboy, a supercomputer cluster built by Advanced Clustering Technologies that is comprised of 250 individual compute nodes. Cowboy helps researchers and scientists in diverse fields including bioinformatics, engineering, […]

Advanced Clustering Renewed as Intel HPC Data Center Specialist

High Performance Computing solutions provider Advanced Clustering Technologies announced today that the company has been renewed as an official Intel® Technology Provider and HPC Data Center Specialist. The designation recognizes Advanced Clustering as partner adept in delivering quality HPC solutions for customers. In order to qualify for this status, Advanced Clustering’s team of HPC engineers […]

In the News: San Jose State University Brings New HPC Cluster Online

San Jose State University has just announced that its new high performance computing cluster went online this week. Funded by a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the new cluster will support an interdisciplinary team led by Sen Chiao from Meteorology, who was principal investigator of the grant proposal, and Climate Science and Ehsan […]

Advanced Clustering to be Honored for Contributions to KC Industrial Area

Advanced Clustering Technologies has been selected to receive a 2017 Brick-by-Brick Award from the Kansas City Industrial Council (KCIC). The award recognizes contributions to the growth and development of Kansas City’s industrial areas. In 2016 Advanced Clustering acquired and relocated to a new office and production facility at 3148 Roanoke Road. From this location the […]

Memory Prices Increase as NAND Flash Supply Fails to Meet Demand

A shortage of NAND flash, the storage medium for solid-state drives, is making memory chips more expensive this year. Based in part on the transition from 2D NAND to 3D NAND, the shortage has driven up the cost of NAND by an average of 12-16% this quarter for multi-level cell (MLC) SSDs and 10-16% for […]

Advanced Clustering Exhibiting HPC Solutions at SC17 This Fall in Denver

Advanced Clustering Technologies will be exhibiting its capabilities as a leading provider of high performance computing solutions at SC17 Nov. 12-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Having served the HPC needs of universities, corporations and government agencies for more than 16 years, Advanced Clustering will be demonstrating its products and services at SC17, […]

Download our Guide to Features and Benefits of Knights Landing

The new Knights Landing or KNL Intel® Xeon Phi™ is Intel’s first processor to deliver the performance of an accelerator with the benefits of a standard host CPU. Designed to help solve your biggest challenges faster and with greater efficiency, the KNL Intel Xeon Phi processor enables machines to rapidly learn without being explicitly programmed. It also helps drive […]

We’re offering educational discounts on NVIDIA Tesla P100

Educational discounts are available for NVIDIA Tesla P100 in our servers Advanced Clustering Technologies is offering educational discounts on NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators, which are the most advanced ever built for the data center. The P100 gives you higher performance with fewer, lightning-fast nodes enables data centers to dramatically increase throughput while also saving […]

New CADRE HPC event takes place April 11-12 in Oklahoma

Oklahoma State University is hosting a new high performance computing event this spring. The Coalition for Advancing Digital Research & Education (CADRE) spring conference, set for April 11-12 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, is designed for regional researchers and leaders interested in the advancement of high performance computing, high speed networks, data analysis and visualization, creating and […]

Advancedclustering.com Adds Product Comparison, Quote Cart Functionality

Advancedclustering.com has been updated to provide you with more ways to shop for hardware and software and to make informed decisions about your next system. All product listings on the site now include a “Compare” button that allows you to compare multiple products side by side, enabling you to analyze differences in specifications, performance, etc. […]

Upcoming HPC Events

Here is a list of upcoming HPC events for 2017. We will update this list as new events are announced:  Rice University Oil & Gas HPC Conference March 15-16, 2017 Houston, TX Rice University’s Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Conference facilitates networking and discussion focused on computing and information technology challenges and needs in […]