Univa Solutions For Government

Government organizations, agencies, and research labs face intense pressure to find ways to do more with less. With increasing budget and operational scrutiny from both internal entities and the general public, government IT managers must meet core objectives on time and on budget – in more and more cases, this means finding ways to satisfy compute demand with the resources already in place.

This presents a number of challenges for agencies and other government organizations:

  • Massive requirements for compute capacity
  • Low visibility into resource utilization
  • Inefficiency and processing bottlenecks
  • Poor utilization of information

Robust grid and infrastructure management solutions can be used in this environment to overcome computing limitations and dramatically improve the performance of compute-intensive research – so efficiency and productivity are maximized while budgets are held in line.

Government organizations of all sizes engaged in large-scale research, data analytics, and security efforts can take advantage of Univa's grid and cluster solutions to produce better results more quickly and cost-effectively.

Agencies and government-funded research centers involved in defense, intelligence, and homeland security stand to benefit from the power supplied by Univa grid technology – our solutions can speed processing in areas like image analysis, warfare simulation, file decryption, and computer-aided design. In addition, advanced simulations (weapons simulation or atmospheric/weather modeling), remote sensing of geo-spatial images, and pattern recognition applications can all be made more productive when run on Univa grids that are hosted onsite or remotely.

Government health and biodefense organizations also stand to benefit from Univa's grid and cluster technologies. Our industry-leading expertise in Life Sciences and our background with Cancer, Anthrax, and Smallpox research means we're well equipped to support medical and biochemical research projects of any scale.

Our Government clients are finding more and more ways to leverage grid and virtualization for specific projects. With our solutions customers can:

  • Expand Analysis – Increased access to processing power allows a higher level of accuracy in data analysis – for better overall project results. And with a grid solution, greater amounts of data can be processed, modeled, and analyzed to increase accuracy and precision of results.
  • Improve Decision Making – Univa solutions allow organizations that rely on computational processing to significantly reduce the time it takes to run applications in a variety of functional areas. This means faster project completion and the ability to deliver critical decision-making information in a reduced timeframe.
  • Reduce or Eliminate Costs – By better leveraging existing compute resources, government agencies and departments can significantly reduce the costs associated with high-performance computing and see a dramatic return on investment. More importantly, as existing compute resources are naturally upgraded, the overall power of the grid increases.

In addition, Univa's alliances with key software vendors ensure that your most critical applications will operate at a highly increased rate of productivity.

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Univa has the proven solutions to benefit government research activities and special projects, from high-performance computing (HPC) job scheduling and management to R&D acceleration to capacity and utilization auditing.

Specific use cases include:

Streamlining the HPC Computing Environment

The HPC environments that support most government research and processing initiatives tend to be highly complex and costly to maintain. Expensive resources go underutilized, and application license utilization is less than optimal. In addition, researchers must spend time dealing with the underlying infrastructure instead of focusing on their area of expertise.

With Univa solutions, government organizations can streamline their operations to make better use of existing resources. Our solutions abstract the complexities of the underlying environment away from the end user and provide the centralization, visibility and control to achieve a higher level of productivity.

Increasing HPC Application Throughput

When IT constraints bottleneck the ability to get results quickly, project timelines suffer and researchers must make tradeoffs between quality and speed. Therefore, most government organizations spend massive amounts on HPC resources – in fact, the government is one of the top consumers of HPC. But buying more hardware is not a scalable model – budget and IT complexity constraints are driving agencies to seek new ways of delivering the capacity needed to power their initiatives.

With Univa solutions, government research teams can dramatically increase processing capacity and application throughput. With our grid and cluster solutions, you'll unlock hidden capacity to power processing at new levels, without an investment in costly hardware.

Resource Auditing and Accounting

Most government computing organizations have large, diverse, and complex infrastructures with static silos of clusters and other HPC resources. For organizations looking to justify HPC purchases and optimize budgeting, a lack of visibility into utilization rates on these resources means less informed decision-making.

In addition, the broad range of users and applications across multiple geographically dispersed sites adds to the complexity of the environment – and makes it more difficult to account for which resources are used when, how, and by whom. Thus, the ability to make accurate spending decisions is diminished.

With Univa, organizations have comprehensive visibility across disparate, broadly dispersed devices. Univa solutions enable enterprise-wide capacity and utilization analytics, so you can execute fact-based capacity planning, improve productivity through reallocated resources, optimize hardware and software spending, and make fully informed HPC spending decisions.