THE CONTEXT

The environment changes the engineering answer.

Compute, storage and high-speed networks aligned to experimental workloads, collaboration and responsible data management. Good design starts with understanding the organisation’s constraints, existing systems and risk appetite.

OPERATING CONDITIONS

Typical pressures to resolve

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High-volume data and specialised compute

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Shared infrastructure access and performance

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Data governance, reproducibility and recovery

OUR RESPONSE

From discovery through handover

01Profile workloads, users and datasets

Characterise experiments, user concurrency, dataset movement and the access policies needed by research teams.

02Model GPU, storage and fabric capacity

Size accelerators, storage throughput and fabric connectivity against representative workload targets.

03Pilot representative performance and access controls

Benchmark selected workloads while checking isolation, data protection and access controls.

04Establish operating procedures and lifecycle plans

Document platform ownership, upgrade cycles, support procedures and capacity-review triggers.

CONNECTED TECHNOLOGY

The disciplines that may come together