Case Study: Liberty University expands engineering R&D with cloud-native HPC from Rescale

Liberty University powers 2,500+ HPC R&D experiments with Rescale

Liberty University's engineering school faced challenges providing adequate high-performance computing (HPC) resources for its wide array of computation-intensive R&D projects. The IT team lacked the personnel and bandwidth to implement and maintain an on-premises solution and was concerned about cost and deployment speed. They sought a cloud HPC solution that could easily scale to support their students' diverse needs.

The vendor Rescale provided an all-in-one cloud-native HPC platform that was easy to implement, use, and control. This solution gave researchers flexible on-demand access to the latest tools and allowed IT to manage hardware and costs down to a project level. As a result, Liberty empowered its students and faculty to run over 2,500 R&D experiments comprising more than six million core hours across various engineering disciplines, using staff and financial resources more efficiently.

Liberty University

Brian Wilkes

Director of IT