Best HPC Software
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What is HPC Software?
High-Performance Computing (HPC) software are applications designed to maximize computational power, enabling complex and resource-intensive tasks to be executed efficiently. These programs optimize parallel processing, often leveraging supercomputers or distributed computing clusters to solve problems in fields like scientific research, engineering, and data analytics. HPC software includes components for workload management, data communication, and performance tuning, ensuring scalability and efficient resource utilization. Examples include simulation software, machine learning frameworks, and tools for weather modeling or molecular dynamics. By harnessing advanced algorithms and hardware, HPC software accelerates computation, reducing the time required for tasks that would otherwise take weeks or months on conventional systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best HPC software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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UberCloud
Simr (formerly UberCloud)
Simr (formerly UberCloud) is a cutting-edge platform for Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps). It streamlines and automates complex simulation workflows, enhancing productivity and collaboration. Leveraging cloud-based infrastructure, Simr offers scalable, cost-effective solutions for industries like automotive, aerospace, and electronics. Trusted by leading global companies, Simr empowers engineers to innovate efficiently and effectively. Simr supports a variety of CFD, FEA and other CAE software including Ansys, COMSOL, Abaqus, CST, STAR-CCM+, MATLAB, Lumerical and more. Simr automates every major cloud including Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP. -
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Intel Tiber AI Cloud
Intel
Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud is a powerful platform designed to scale AI workloads with advanced computing resources. It offers specialized AI processors, such as the Intel Gaudi AI Processor and Max Series GPUs, to accelerate model training, inference, and deployment. Optimized for enterprise-level AI use cases, this cloud solution enables developers to build and fine-tune models with support for popular libraries like PyTorch. With flexible deployment options, secure private cloud solutions, and expert support, Intel Tiber™ ensures seamless integration, fast deployment, and enhanced model performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Google Cloud GPUs
Google
Speed up compute jobs like machine learning and HPC. A wide selection of GPUs to match a range of performance and price points. Flexible pricing and machine customizations to optimize your workload. High-performance GPUs on Google Cloud for machine learning, scientific computing, and 3D visualization. NVIDIA K80, P100, P4, T4, V100, and A100 GPUs provide a range of compute options to cover your workload for each cost and performance need. Optimally balance the processor, memory, high-performance disk, and up to 8 GPUs per instance for your individual workload. All with the per-second billing, so you only pay only for what you need while you are using it. Run GPU workloads on Google Cloud Platform where you have access to industry-leading storage, networking, and data analytics technologies. Compute Engine provides GPUs that you can add to your virtual machine instances. Learn what you can do with GPUs and what types of GPU hardware are available.Starting Price: $0.160 per GPU -
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NVIDIA GPU-Optimized AMI
Amazon
The NVIDIA GPU-Optimized AMI is a virtual machine image for accelerating your GPU accelerated Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science and HPC workloads. Using this AMI, you can spin up a GPU-accelerated EC2 VM instance in minutes with a pre-installed Ubuntu OS, GPU driver, Docker and NVIDIA container toolkit. This AMI provides easy access to NVIDIA's NGC Catalog, a hub for GPU-optimized software, for pulling & running performance-tuned, tested, and NVIDIA certified docker containers. The NGC catalog provides free access to containerized AI, Data Science, and HPC applications, pre-trained models, AI SDKs and other resources to enable data scientists, developers, and researchers to focus on building and deploying solutions. This GPU-optimized AMI is free with an option to purchase enterprise support offered through NVIDIA AI Enterprise. For how to get support for this AMI, scroll down to 'Support Information'Starting Price: $3.06 per hour -
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Amazon EC2 P4 Instances
Amazon
Amazon EC2 P4d instances deliver high performance for machine learning training and high-performance computing applications in the cloud. Powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, they offer industry-leading throughput and low-latency networking, supporting 400 Gbps instance networking. P4d instances provide up to 60% lower cost to train ML models, with an average of 2.5x better performance for deep learning models compared to previous-generation P3 and P3dn instances. Deployed in hyperscale clusters called Amazon EC2 UltraClusters, P4d instances combine high-performance computing, networking, and storage, enabling users to scale from a few to thousands of NVIDIA A100 GPUs based on project needs. Researchers, data scientists, and developers can utilize P4d instances to train ML models for use cases such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, and recommendation engines, as well as to run HPC applications like pharmaceutical discovery and more.Starting Price: $11.57 per hour -
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Azure FXT Edge Filer
Microsoft
Create cloud-integrated hybrid storage that works with your existing network-attached storage (NAS) and Azure Blob Storage. This on-premises caching appliance optimizes access to data in your datacenter, in Azure, or across a wide-area network (WAN). A combination of software and hardware, Microsoft Azure FXT Edge Filer delivers high throughput and low latency for hybrid storage infrastructure supporting high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.Scale-out clustering provides non-disruptive NAS performance scaling. Join up to 24 FXT nodes per cluster to scale to millions of IOPS and hundreds of GB/s. When you need performance and scale in file-based workloads, Azure FXT Edge Filer keeps your data on the fastest path to processing resources. Managing data storage is easy with Azure FXT Edge Filer. Shift aging data to Azure Blob Storage to keep it easily accessible with minimal latency. Balance on-premises and cloud storage. -
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NVIDIA DGX Cloud
NVIDIA
NVIDIA DGX Cloud offers a fully managed, end-to-end AI platform that leverages the power of NVIDIA’s advanced hardware and cloud computing services. This platform allows businesses and organizations to scale AI workloads seamlessly, providing tools for machine learning, deep learning, and high-performance computing (HPC). DGX Cloud integrates seamlessly with leading cloud providers, delivering the performance and flexibility required to handle the most demanding AI applications. This service is ideal for businesses looking to enhance their AI capabilities without the need to manage physical infrastructure. -
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Kao Data
Kao Data
Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With a hyperscale-inspired and industrial scale platform, we provide our customers with a secure, scalable and sustainable home for their compute. Kao Data leads the industry in pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With our Harlow campus the home for a variety of mission-critical HPC deployments - we are the UK’s number one choice for power-intensive, high density, GPU-powered computing. With rapid on-ramps into all major cloud providers, we can make your hybrid AI and HPC ambitions a reality. -
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Amazon EC2 P5 Instances
Amazon
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and P5e and P5en instances powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high-performance computing applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 4x compared to previous-generation GPU-based EC2 instances, and reduce the cost to train ML models by up to 40%. These instances help you iterate on your solutions at a faster pace and get to market more quickly. You can use P5, P5e, and P5en instances for training and deploying increasingly complex large language models and diffusion models powering the most demanding generative artificial intelligence applications. These applications include question-answering, code generation, video and image generation, and speech recognition. You can also use these instances to deploy demanding HPC applications at scale for pharmaceutical discovery. -
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Amazon EC2 UltraClusters
Amazon
Amazon EC2 UltraClusters enable you to scale to thousands of GPUs or purpose-built machine learning accelerators, such as AWS Trainium, providing on-demand access to supercomputing-class performance. They democratize supercomputing for ML, generative AI, and high-performance computing developers through a simple pay-as-you-go model without setup or maintenance costs. UltraClusters consist of thousands of accelerated EC2 instances co-located in a given AWS Availability Zone, interconnected using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking in a petabit-scale nonblocking network. This architecture offers high-performance networking and access to Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed shared storage built on a high-performance parallel file system, enabling rapid processing of massive datasets with sub-millisecond latencies. EC2 UltraClusters provide scale-out capabilities for distributed ML training and tightly coupled HPC workloads, reducing training times. -
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AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)
United States
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. Its custom-built operating system (OS) bypass hardware interface enhances the performance of inter-instance communications, which is critical to scaling these applications. With EFA, High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications using NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) can scale to thousands of CPUs or GPUs. As a result, you get the application performance of on-premises HPC clusters with the on-demand elasticity and flexibility of the AWS cloud. EFA is available as an optional EC2 networking feature that you can enable on any supported EC2 instance at no additional cost. Plus, it works with the most commonly used interfaces, APIs, and libraries for inter-node communications. -
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Amazon EC2 G4 Instances
Amazon
Amazon EC2 G4 instances are optimized for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications. It offers a choice between NVIDIA T4 GPUs (G4dn) and AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs (G4ad). G4dn instances combine NVIDIA T4 GPUs with custom Intel Cascade Lake CPUs, providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources. These instances are ideal for deploying machine learning models, video transcoding, game streaming, and graphics rendering. G4ad instances, featuring AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and 2nd-generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver cost-effective solutions for graphics workloads. Both G4dn and G4ad instances support Amazon Elastic Inference, allowing users to attach low-cost GPU-powered inference acceleration to Amazon EC2 and reduce deep learning inference costs. They are available in various sizes to accommodate different performance needs and are integrated with AWS services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS. -
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QumulusAI
QumulusAI
QumulusAI delivers supercomputing without constraint, combining scalable HPC with grid-independent data centers to break bottlenecks and power the future of AI. QumulusAI is universalizing access to AI supercomputing, removing the constraints of legacy HPC and delivering the scalable, high-performance computing AI demands today. And tomorrow too. No virtualization overhead, no noisy neighbors, just dedicated, direct access to AI servers optimized with NVIDIA’s latest GPUs (H200) and Intel/AMD CPUs. QumulusAI offers HPC infrastructure uniquely configured around your specific workloads, instead of legacy providers’ one-size-fits-all approach. We collaborate with you through design, deployment, to ongoing optimization, adapting as your AI projects evolve, so you get exactly what you need at each step. We own the entire stack. That means better performance, greater control, and more predictable costs than with other providers who coordinate with third-party vendors.
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