The University of Cambridge Chooses Red Hat as OpenStack Partner for HPC-as-a-Service Offering and Upstream Collaboration
One of the world’s leading academic and research institutions selects
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, plans upstream collaboration with Red Hat to
extend OpenStack’s HPC capabilities
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the University of Cambridge, one of the
world's oldest and most prestigious academic institutions, has selected
Red Hat to support its OpenStack-based high performance computing (HPC)
initiatives. In addition to deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform for its
HPC-as-a-Service offering, the University of Cambridge also plans to
collaborate with Red Hat to bring HPC capabilities to the upstream
OpenStack community.
The University of Cambridge is one of the world's foremost research
universities. Comprised of 31 colleges and more than 150 departments,
faculties, schools and other institutions, its mission is "to contribute
to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at
the highest international levels of excellence." The University is a
global leader in HPC, including its work to create some of the UK’s
fastest supercomputers.
The University of Cambridge recognized an opportunity to extend its HPC
& research computing leadership with a service offering available to a
broader scientific and technology research community. Today, the
Cambridge Research Computing Service (RCS) is responsible for hosting,
system support, scientific support and service delivery of a large
supercomputing resource for the University of Cambridge Research
Community. Its principal facilities consist of a large CPU compute
cluster (Darwin) and a world-leading energy efficient GPU compute
cluster (Wilkes).
To accommodate its new Research computing-as-a-Service offering and keep
the research institution at the forefront of large scale big-data
science, the University of Cambridge turned to its longtime partners
Dell and Intel to help it create one of the world’s most energy
efficient datacenters. And, the University of Cambridge has selected Red
Hat OpenStack Platform to power the Research computing-as-a-Service
offering. Initially, the University of Cambridge had deployed OpenStack
on a community-supported Linux during the proof-of-concept phase, but
found that they needed a more reliable, integrated and supported
OpenStack platform for production deployment, leading them to Red Hat
OpenStack Platform.
Red Hat is an OpenStack leader - both in contributions to the upstream
OpenStack community and its work to deliver a production-ready OpenStack
platform to enterprise customers. Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly
scalable, production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution,
has emerged as the open source cloud platform of choice for a growing
number of global organizations. By co-engineering with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, organizations can deploy OpenStack on a tested,
reliable, and more secure foundation, backed by Red Hat’s award-winning
enterprise support.
In addition to selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform, the University of
Cambridge chose to work with Red Hat because of the company’s leadership
in open source communities and collaboration. Together, Red Hat and the
University of Cambridge plan to bring HPC capabilities to the upstream
OpenStack community, helping to advance the open source cloud platform
for scientific research use cases.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“HPC and scientific research is an area where OpenStack’s scalability
shines, and I’m thrilled that the University of Cambridge has selected
Red Hat as their OpenStack partner. Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers a
highly scalable, open, and reliable platform for Cambridge HPC Service,
and our collaboration with them to bring new HPC capabilities to the
upstream OpenStack project is a testament to our ongoing open source
community leadership.”
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