Why ACT · Case studies
How universities, national labs and companies use Advanced Clustering systems, software and services.

Caltech · ClusterVisor
Caltech implements ClusterVisor 1.0 to more effectively manage its HPC cluster and workloads
Caltech upgraded to ClusterVisor 1.0 while its new cluster was being installed in January 2023.
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AbbVie · BeeGFS storage
Storage Blocks with BeeGFS support large-scale biopharmaceutical research
Moving off storage that couldn’t scale gave AbbVie’s users quicker reads and writes.
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Washington University in St. Louis · HPC cluster
Building an HPC solution with flexibility to meet future needs
A heterogeneous cluster for a diverse user community, including economists and radiologists.
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Oklahoma State University · HPC cluster
Enabling computational research for the ‘missing middle’
The 3,048-core “Cowboy” cluster runs some biology and physics applications up to twice as fast.
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Folding@home · AMD EPYC
COVID-19 research that matters
ACTblade systems with AMD EPYC CPUs power data analysis for more than 100 simulation projects.
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Argonne National Laboratory · HPC cluster
Cost and performance enhance research efforts
New insight into the energetics, dynamics and structure of new materials.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital · Memory performance
Closing the gap on memory performance for genetic data analysis software
Software that has helped identify regions of interest for different diseases.
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