The partnership of Vscaler and Alces Flight adds private cloud capabilities to Alces’s established on-premise, hybrid, and public cloud offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC). — May 30, 2022: Bicester, UK — Alces Flight, leader in building and transforming HPC clusters into cloud and cloud-enabled environments, today announced a partnership with Vscaler, a platform-agnostic private cloud appliance provider for HPC, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). …

The acquisition will enable Alces Flight to help their clients and partners better understand and optimise the performance of their on-premise High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. — May 30, 2022 Bicester, UK — Alces Flight, leader in building and transforming HPC clusters into cloud and cloud-enabled environments, today announced the acquisition of Concertim, a data-centre management appliance designed to gain deep insight into the operational and energy efficiency of HPC hardware.

The Flight Crew will be looking at new ways to ‘Reimagine HPC’ at this year’s conference in Hamburg, Germany. — The team at Alces Flight is excited to announce that this year marks our first turn as in-person exhibitors at ISC’22 — taking place May 30th to June 2nd, 2022. We are thrilled to be exhibiting at their new conference location in Hamburg, Germany, as well as continuing our active…

The Department of Psychology and the Research Computing team at the University of York leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) and Machine Learning (ML) to seek out ‘ nonlocalizable global markers of cancer’ through the rigorous testing and refinement of neural network models on public cloud. Excerpt from the Alces Flight…

City, University of London, launches the Hyperion High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster to meet supercomputing requirements across all five of their specialist schools. Excerpt from the Alces Flight client success story series. City, University of London has five specialist schools focusing on mathematics: computer science and engineering, humanities, business, health…

2021 asked a lot of tough questions from the HPC community. Good news is 2022 is set for ethical, inclusive, and green progress in supercomputing. — If 2020 was the year of natural disasters, then 2021 was the year of the clean-up. Faced with constantly changing priorities and uncertainty it would have been easy for the research computing community to hide from making major decisions. Instead, those working in High Performance Computing did anything but. As…

Team Durham and Team Bristol/Bath tackled the Grand Finale of the CIUK HPC Student Cluster Challenge as they should… in parallel. — After a completely online 2020 the 2021 student teams for this year’s CIUK Student Cluster Challenge were able to meet and compete onsite at Manchester Central. …

The university’s first campus-wide HPC cluster is built and managed by the team at Alces Flight — On November 24, 2021 the team at City, University of London, officially launched the Hyperion computer cluster, a Dell EMC machine built and managed by Alces Flight. Hyperion will serve as a centrepiece for exploration in aerospace, material sciences, artificial intelligence, and data discovery. …

Teams Bristol/Bath and Durham kick-off the second annual CIUK Student Cluster Competition utilising a GPU Cluster Environment on Microsoft Azure. Having the opportunity to develop and hone skills in High Performance Computing is the backbone of the 2nd Annual CIUK Student Cluster Challenge. Following on from our successful first year…