The dynamics of workflows aren’t always obvious – and they are all too easy to disrupt.

HPC Shouldn’t Disrupt Your Workflow

CrunchYard’s pioneering Office HPC solution delivers all the computational power, speed and security that your business or engineering teams need – minus any steep learning curves, specialist skill sets or disruptions to your processes. Office HPC features SUSE Linux Enterprise, maximising stability, manageability, and support application software.  

There is a reason you work the way you work. Workflows are carefully devised by companies, taking into consideration various restraints. Several factors make creating workflows complex –the type of problems being investigated, budget constraints, procurement, and even how one particular workflow fits into other workflows.

Management science and engineering offer some common methodologies to help ensure optimally efficient workflows. Common workflows include:

Sequential Workflow Model involves a series of steps that follow a straight, predefined path from beginning to end. Each step is executed in a linear order, and the process flows sequentially.

State-Machine Workflow Model involves multiple loops between different stages. It’s like a flowchart with decision points and loops

Rules-Driven Workflow Model relies on predefined rules or conditions to determine the flow of the process.

Custom workflow models might even be devised to incorporate software development lifecycles, like Waterfall, Agile or Scrum.

There is value in maintaining and supporting a functional workflow - and its constituent processes, policies, and procedures - whether developed through careful planning or through trial and error. The last thing anyone needs is to temporarily lose productivity, or even diminish efficiency long-term, by introducing a new tool or element within the workflow.

CrunchYard drew on its experiencing serving a wide variety of engineering clients across several distinctive disciplines to create an HPC solution that fits client workflows, rather than the other way around.

To begin with, Office HPC is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise – the same adaptable and trusted high-performance computing operating system that powers the world’s largest supercomputers.  SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC include a fully-supported set of popular utilities and libraries, broad hardware and cloud platform support for maximum flexibility, and a rich partner ecosystem of verified applications to support your workloads.

Office HPC is designed to align to your existing workflows, supporting how you share and access data and collaborate within and between teams.   Moreover, by empowering you with faster processing and the ability to handle more and larger problems, Office HPC can help you unlock additional benefits from your current workflow.

Bluntly and simply, Office HPC does not mess with your flow. It does not disrupt your workflow. But it also goes beyond that.

Besides the obvious improvements that HPC provides (faster processing times, enabling larger problems, more simultaneous problems, data integrity and security, etc.), Office HPC might actually unlock additional benefits from your current workflow.

Faster and more powerful than the leading scientific workstations on the market – Office HPC was designed to unlock the power of true high-performance computing for everyone, in any office environment, using the workflows they are already comfortable with. A central Office HPC is far more efficient than multiple individual workstations, as resource managers and schedulers (such as OpenPBS and SLURM) ensure the system is efficiently utilised. Rather than having to manually request access to shared licenses and ensuring there are enough license and compute resources, your team can just submit simulations to the Office HPC system and the schedulers will take care of the rest.

By seamlessly integrating with your existing workflow, Office HPC makes HPC available to anyone, in any office environment, working in any field. 

Office HPC

True High Performance Computing optimised for your needs, in any office space.

• Preconfigured, just plug and play
• Soundproofed, ventilated, water cooled
• Works with your team and workflows
• Available in 3 Sizes

For more information on how Office HPC can work for you, or to have any of your other HPC questions answered, visit www.crunchyard.com or send us a mail and an expert will be glad to help.

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