Case Study: University of Kentucky achieves virtualized HPC performance with Ceph from SoftIron

Virtualizing HPC at University of Kentucky Meets the Needs of a New Generation of Researchers

The University of Kentucky faced a challenge meeting the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) resources from a new generation of researchers, whose single-node jobs did not require costly specialized HPC hardware. They needed a virtualized environment that could support both cloud and HPC tasks without sacrificing performance and turned to SoftIron for a solution involving their HyperDrive Ceph storage appliance.

SoftIron implemented a production-ready HyperDrive Ceph cluster to eliminate a performance bottleneck caused by virtualized data storage. The solution provided the University of Kentucky with the high performance and flexibility needed for their virtualized OpenHPC clusters. This resulted in less wait time and greater productivity for researchers, successfully adapting their infrastructure to the changing nature of research computing.

University of Kentucky

Lowell Pike

Director of Research Computing Infrastructure