Introducing Rescale Academic Essentials: Turnkey, Multi-Cloud HPC and AI to Advance Higher Ed Research in Science and Engineering
Blog post from Rescale
Rescale Academic Essentials is a new platform offering tailored for higher education institutions, enabling scientific and engineering research on cutting-edge computing architectures. Provided as a complimentary service, it supports universities in expanding their high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities by integrating cloud resources with existing on-premises systems, thus addressing challenges such as capacity, obsolescence, and specialized hardware access. The platform offers a turnkey multi-cloud solution with over 1,000 pre-installed research applications, ensuring accessibility and ease of use for researchers. It facilitates seamless integration through a user-friendly interface and API, providing granular control over budgets and resource management, and is designed to fit within university budget structures. Rescale Academic Essentials enables universities to leverage cloud infrastructures from leading providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, supporting a wide range of computational needs from small-scale experiments to large-scale studies while maintaining oversight through comprehensive administrative controls.