Accelerate Your Work with our Latest Gen Cloud Nodes on ACTnowHPC
posted on May 30, 2023

Advanced Clustering Technologies has upgraded its on demand ACTnowHPC cloud solution with nodes based on the latest generation Intel Xeon “Sapphire Rapids” processors. Powered by the Intel® Sapphire Rapids Xeon® 6430 (32-core at 2.1GHz), these 64-core nodes offer super fast NVMe drives and  eight channels of DDR5 memory offering a maximum of 4TB per server. ACTnowHPC is […]

CFD-optimized Car Earns High Marks for University of Toronto Formula Racing Team
posted on June 25, 2019

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,” […]

University of Toronto runs CFD simulations on ACTnowHPC cloud to optimize Formula SAE car design
posted on November 2, 2018

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 […]

Start your free trial on our HPC Cloud today
posted on June 12, 2018

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 […]

Latest STAR-CCM+ Edition Available for Use on ACTnowHPC
posted on July 24, 2017

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 […]

Guest Blog: Dispelling the 7 Myths of Cloud
posted on May 30, 2017

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 […]

Infiniband is a Rarity Among Cloud HPC Providers
posted on January 17, 2017

A new report from The Next Platform indicates that Infiniband is hard to find in HPC clouds. Infiniband has been the interconnect of choice among every Top 500 list since 2009, with more than 37% of systems in the most recent Top 500 list using Infiniband. Cloud HPC solutions, have been slow to adopt Infiniband. […]

ACTnowHPC website highlights cloud features and benefits
posted on June 29, 2016

Advanced Clustering has re-launched ACTnowHPC.com to offer more detailed information about the high performance computing cloud cluster, the industries it serves and the ways it helps users access the latest technology. The new site includes case studies from satisfied HPC cloud customers and details about the on-boarding and job running processes. Advanced Clustering’s HPC cloud provides users with […]

Cloud HPC Market Expected to More Than Double by 2020
posted on May 2, 2016

tagged: ACTnowHPC, HPC cloud computing The cloud HPC market size is estimated to grow from $4.37 billion in 2015 to $10.83 billion by 2020, at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 19.9%. That’s according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets. The main factors driving the growth of cloud HPC are: – […]

Cloud customers share success stories using ACTnowHPC
posted on April 28, 2016

Advanced Clustering Technologies has just released a compendium of case studies that demonstrate how four customers are using the company’s on-demand HPC cluster in the cloud, ACTnowHPC, to achieve such benefits as quick turn-around times, technical support, access to RAM and no waiting for access. The use cases include: – A weather forecaster triples his […]

Advanced Clustering Now Offers STAR-CCM+® In the Cloud
posted on March 7, 2016

Advanced Clustering Technologies has partnered with CD-adapco to offer 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. “We’re pleased to announce that our HPC cloud now makes STAR-CCM+® immediately accessible to engineers who purchase the license from CD-adapco,” said Kyle Sheumaker, President […]

Case Study: Cloud Speeds Up Research for Biotech Company
posted on March 2, 2016

In our latest case study, a researcher at Bioo Scientific shares the story of her success in using the ACTnowHPC on-demand HPC cluster in the cloud to conduct research. Bioo Scientific was running on a workstation before joining ACTnowHPC. This is adequate when working on only one gene for one panel. However, the challenge researchers […]

Case Study: Weather Forecasting in the Cloud
posted on January 21, 2016

In our latest case study, a weather forecasting researcher at Weather It Is, LTD, shares his experiences using Advanced Clustering Technology’s ACTnowHPC on-demand cloud high performance computing cluster to forecast potentially severe winter snowstorms. Before Weather It Is started using ACTnowHPC, the company faced a lack of availability on its own HPC cluster, where the […]

ACTnowHPC Cloud Cluster Joins UberCloud Market
posted on January 20, 2016

We’re pleased to announce that our ACTnowHPC on demand cloud cluster this week joined the UberCloud online marketplace, where engineers, scientists and their service providers discover, try, and buy computing power and software in the cloud as a service. ACTnowHPC enables users to harness the power of high performance computing resources on a pay-as-you-go basis without […]

Introducing ACTnowHPC, Our On-Demand HPC Cloud Service
posted on November 18, 2015

Advanced Clustering is proud to announce that we are expanding our high performance computing offerings to include an on-demand HPC cloud service. The service, called ACTnowHPC, gives users easy access to the latest HPC technologies including CPUs, accelerators and interconnects without the upfront capital outlay for HPC hardware. “Our enhanced HPC cloud service answers a […]

HPC Cluster Blog – HPC in the Cloud
posted on March 13, 2014

Is HPC in the cloud right for you? Over the years, I’ve attended many birds of feather where the topic was whether or not there was a future in moving HPC into the cloud.  There were plenty of vigorous debates for and against, and they tended to go this way: For: The most obvious argument […]

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