High performance computing

High performance computing (HPC) is all about scale and speed. Google Cloud’s flexible and scalable offerings help accelerate time to completion, so you can convert ideas into discoveries and inspirations into products.

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Explore HPC on Google Cloud

Benefits

A powerful and flexible infrastructure to support scalable workloads

Cut the queues

Each team can access their own scalable, tailor-made cluster to reduce queue times for large-batch workloads and relieve compute resource limitations.

Pay only for what you need

Access custom machine configurations to control costs with committed and sustained use discounts. Get up to 80% cost savings with Preemptible VMs.

Innovate with high-performance, on-demand resources

Build your own supercomputer using the latest Intel and AMD processors, NVIDIA GPUs, and high-throughput, low-latency object and file storage.

Whitepaper: Using Google Cloud to accelerate your chip design process

See what challenges HPC is solving for

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Webinar: How HSBC migrated their TIBCO HPC environment to Google Cloud

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Webinar: How Harvard Medical School accelerated COVID research on Google Cloud

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Webinar: Getting started running EDA workflows on Google Cloud

Customers

Explore HPC case studies

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Schrödinger expedites drug discovery using the cloud.

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eSilicon uses Google Cloud to power complex chip design processes.

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HSBC extracts insights from more than 100 PB of data using Google Cloud.

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Broad Institute analyzes human genomes 400% faster with Google Cloud.

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Northeastern runs large-scale COVID-19 epidemiological models on Google Cloud

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Partners

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Documentation

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Google Cloud Public Datasets

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Create a virtual GPU-accelerated Linux workstation

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Deploy a Slurm cluster on Compute Engine

This tutorial shows how to deploy a Slurm cluster on Compute Engine. The Slurm Resource Manager is a popular resource manager used in many HPC centers.