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Solutions in the Public Cloud

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Aerospace Automotive Life Sciences
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Today’s emerging HPC applications must handle complex and large volumes of data, which if not managed appropriately, may result in a serious performance bottleneck. CRL (Computational Research Laboratories Ltd.), a TATA Group company, was looking for a database engine running on a highly scalable Linux cluster. The company needed a solution that could offer sustained performance of complex analytics in the face of increasing data and seamless performance-oriented scalability of elastic database services underpinned by a tensile computing infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) Ltd., is the world’s first company to offer HPC services in the public cloud. CRL is a member of the prestigious TATA Group and is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Ltd. CRL provides a full portfolio of services to make it easy for organizations to exploit the full potential of HPC without the headache of long setup times and huge capital layouts. With its ‘Eka’ Supercomputing Facility, which is among the world’s largest, CRL provides cloud access all over the globe and has proven domain expertise in major HPC verticals such as Automotive, Aerospace, Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment, and Material Sciences. Read More
Solution	In November of 2010, CRL entered into strategic partnership using the Versant database in a commitment to meeting the end-to-end performance needs of its customers by integrating one of the world’s fastest database engines into one of the world’s fastest supercomputing environments. The provisioning of end-to-end high performance solutions in a tensile (hyper-elastic performance resilient) cloud infrastructure at CRL will provide a perfect launch pad for innovators in cutting-edge industries and expanding markets in the high performance computing space. In a Proof of Concept (POC) at Super Computing in New Orleans, LA in November 2010, CRL’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) leveraged the Versant database engine, running on a highly scalable Linux cluster, to demonstrate seamless performance-oriented scalability of elastic database services underpinned by a tensile computing infrastructure. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Automotive

Life Sciences

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Today’s emerging HPC applications must handle complex and large volumes of data, which if not managed appropriately, may result in a serious performance bottleneck. CRL (Computational Research Laboratories Ltd.), a TATA Group company, was looking for a database engine running on a highly scalable Linux cluster. The company needed a solution that could offer sustained performance of complex analytics in the face of increasing data and seamless performance-oriented scalability of elastic database services underpinned by a tensile computing infrastructure.

About Customer

Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) Ltd., is the world’s first company to offer HPC services in the public cloud. CRL is a member of the prestigious TATA Group and is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Ltd. CRL provides a full portfolio of services to make it easy for organizations to exploit the full potential of HPC without the headache of long setup times and huge capital layouts. With its ‘Eka’ Supercomputing Facility, which is among the world’s largest, CRL provides cloud access all over the globe and has proven domain expertise in major HPC verticals such as Automotive, Aerospace, Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment, and Material Sciences.

Solution

In November of 2010, CRL entered into strategic partnership using the Versant database in a commitment to meeting the end-to-end performance needs of its customers by integrating one of the world’s fastest database engines into one of the world’s fastest supercomputing environments. The provisioning of end-to-end high performance solutions in a tensile (hyper-elastic performance resilient) cloud infrastructure at CRL will provide a perfect launch pad for innovators in cutting-edge industries and expanding markets in the high performance computing space. In a Proof of Concept (POC) at Super Computing in New Orleans, LA in November 2010, CRL’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) leveraged the Versant database engine, running on a highly scalable Linux cluster, to demonstrate seamless performance-oriented scalability of elastic database services underpinned by a tensile computing infrastructure.

Impact #1	The live demonstration showcased sustained performance of complex analytics in the face of increasing data.
Impact #2	The provisioning of end-to-end high performance solutions in a tensile (hyper-elastic performance resilient) cloud infrastructure at CRL will provide a perfect launch pad for innovators in cutting-edge industries and expanding markets in the high performance computing space.

Impact #1

The live demonstration showcased sustained performance of complex analytics in the face of increasing data.

Impact #2

The provisioning of end-to-end high performance solutions in a tensile (hyper-elastic performance resilient) cloud infrastructure at CRL will provide a perfect launch pad for innovators in cutting-edge industries and expanding markets in the high performance computing space.

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Solutions in the Public Cloud

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