Solutions in the Public Cloud
Company Size
1,000+
Country
- India
- United States
Product
- Eka Supercomputing Facility
- Versant database
Tech Stack
- Linux
- Cloud Computing
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
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
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
Operational Impact
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