Univa announced its latest version of Navops Launch,
version 1.1, which offers enterprise users the ability to migrate their
HPC workloads and processes to the cloud with higher efficiency and
agility.
According
to an Intersect360 report on Worldwide High Performance Computing,
cloud spending by HPC customers grew by 44 percent from 2016 to 2017,
placing cloud-based spending at around $1.1 billion for 2017. Though the
highest potential for HPC cloud spend is yet to come, challenges still
remain with customers seeking better solutions to manage and prioritize
cloud usage. This newest version of Navops Launch delivers new data
staging capabilities to help users prioritize how to migrate their data,
based on when and what is needed. With these new capabilities, users do
not pay for cloud servers while the data is in flight when using a
shared file system in the cloud. Additionally, Navops Launch's unique
automation features intelligently right-size and place workloads in the
cloud to improve the cost efficiency for enterprise users migrating to
the cloud.
With
visibility to workload and cloud metrics, Navops Launch can modify
users' workload resource placement requests in the cloud, so they are
not required to change their workflow or submission scripts. These
unique automation capabilities give HPC users the control and knowledge
of where their workload is running and the related costs. New features
in Navops Launch 1.1 designed to simplify HPC cloud migration include:
- Migration
support: Navops Launch 1.1 fully supports hybrid clusters or all-in
cloud clusters, for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Platform, including support for GPUs and spot/preemptable/low-priority
virtual machines.
- Advanced
automation capabilities: The sophisticated automation engine with
customizable automation actions that are configurable from the Navops
Launch GUI, gives HPC users control of their workloads. Additionally,
this new version of Navops Launch offers built-in, scale up and down
automation capabilities for optimal control and agility.
- Deploy
and manage dedicated and hybrid clusters: Users can create and manage
multiple Univa Grid Engine® clusters to meet increasing workload
demands. The platform's intuitive dashboard provides full visibility for
creating and managing these HPC clusters.
"Though
the cloud offers today's enterprise organizations limitless options,
their budgets do, in fact have limits," said Rob Lalonde, VP and GM of
Cloud at Univa. "With this in mind, the Univa team designed its newest
version of Navops Launch to help make the administration of day-to-day
cloud usage simpler than an unrestricted cloud queue as a way to help
control costs, while still optimizing on efficiency and agility. We
strive to make our customers cloud experience as close to a NoOps model
as possible."
Univa was also recently selected as a Silver Stevie® award winner in the Cloud Infrastructure category of the American Business Awards® for
its Navops Launch solution. This recognition further demonstrates
Univa's unique capabilities to develop a solution that equips the hybrid
cloud community with an innovative, efficient and cost-effective tool
for HPC management - that is not confined to infrastructure environments
or workload demands. Navops Launch gives users predictability,
monitoring and control over their cloud expenditures, while keeping IT
costs low and not compromising on scale.
Navops Launch offers a more simple and agile path to the cloud for HPC workloads
Navops
Launch 1.1 is being proven in production at many of Univa's enterprise
hybrid cloud customers. Additionally, Navops Launch offers users the
ability to deploy and manage hybrid and dedicated HPC clusters for
thousands of applications, including AI, machine learning, life
sciences, manufacturing and transportation. This powerful hybrid HPC
cloud management platform also offers the unique ability to achieve
extreme scale of more than a one million core HPC clusters.