High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads are forecasted to be one of the fastest-growing workload types through 2020. With VMware, you can capture the benefits of virtualization for HPC workloads while delivering performance that is comparable to bare-metal. Our approach to virtualizing HPC adds a level of flexibility, operational efficiency, agility and security that cannot be achieved in bare-metal environments—enabling faster time to insights and discovery.
SPOTLIGHT
Inside HPC: Guide to Virtualization
Find out what the challenges are for HPC virtualization and more.
Virtualizing HPC and Technical Computing with VMware vSphere
Learn the aspects of virtualization that can greatly enhance the productivity of a HPC environment.
Read White Paper
Learn about Virtualizing HPC
InfiniBand Performance
Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in Virtual Machines Using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere.
Learn About InfiniBandWhat Virtualizing HPC Does
Flexibility and Agility
Rapid provisioning of infrastructure on demand enables speedy iteration and scale-out—so you can spend more time attaining insights and less time on setup and retooling.
Reduced Complexity
Take advantage of the industry-leading virtualization platform that your IT already knows. Our broad ecosystem of technology partners can help bring value-added services such as backup, security analysis, firewall and operations management.
Operational Efficiency
Minimize setup and configuration time with centralized management capabilities. Simplify day-2 operations such as ongoing provisioning and infrastructure maintenance. Eliminate planned downtime through live migration.
Data Governance and Control of Sensitive Customer Information
Security isolation prevents VMs from seeing another VM’s data in the same cluster. Each VM can only access the virtual disk files that have been designated for it. This means increased VM and host security for you and your data.
PRODUCTS
VMware vSphere Scale-Out
The latest vSphere edition has been custom-built with Big Data and HPC workloads in mind. Get insights faster with infrastructure on demand, centralized management, data governance and control of sensitive data.
RESOURCES
Learn and Evaluate
- Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in Virtual Machines Using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere
- VMware HPC Virtualization Enables Research as a Service
- VMware Moves Virtualized HPC Forward
- VMware Makes Progress on Virtualizing HPC
- Making the Complicated Simple: Cycle Harvesting from VDI Estate for Financial Modeling and Simulation
- Wringing Maximum Performance from vSphere for Extremely Demanding Workloads and Customers
- Sharing High-Performance Devices Across Multiple Virtual Machines: Machine Learning and Scientific Computing User Cases
- Inside HPC: Guide to Virtualization, the Cloud and HPC
- vSphere Scale-Out Datasheet
Blogs and Communities
- CTO HPC Blog
- vSphere Scale-Out
- How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere 6.5 for Machine Learning and Other HPC Workloads
- Machine Learning on vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs – Episode 1
- Machine Learning on vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs – Episode 2
- Performance comparison of Native to Virtual GPUs for Machine Learning