The University of Cambridge Chooses Red Hat as OpenStack Partner for HPC-as-a-Service Offering and Upstream Collaboration
April 26 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
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
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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