CERT Centre for Supercomputing increases flexibility and choice in how companies and research institutions acquire and pay for computing power. It meets the needs of an increasing and diverse segment of users in the following ways:

Scalable Capacity

• Compete on a larger scale
• Enable business or research opportunities
• Solve large, complex problems
• Perform more detailed analysis
• Perform more analysis iterations in the same or less time
• Accelerate or recover project scheduless

Time-to-solution

• Respond faster to new business opportunities
• Respond faster to peak workload demands
• Respond faster to project schedule challenges
• Improve deployment time for incremental HPC capacity
• Perform more analysis iterations in the same or less time
• Delay or avoid data centre upgrades
• Improve time-to-productivity and ROI

Variable Cost

• Leverage a pay-for-use model
• Avoid upfront capital acquisition and long term fixed IT cost
• Better align IT costs with consumption
• Deliver immediate and predictable ROI
• Simplify IT accounting and chargeback to projects and business units

Risk Mitigation

• Avoid over-capacity and under-utilization
• Avoid under-capacity and inability to respond
• Implement just-in-time capacity planning
• Avoid financial and management responsibilities of owning a supercomputer
• Avoid technology obsolescence and acquisition, deployment, maintenance cycles