This early phase consists in learning about the customer's HPC related requirements which can relate to:
Possible outcomes can be:
Consists in choosing hardware, system, middleware and API components that will be necessary to best serve your HPC and AI workloads and how the target cloud HPC ecosystem will operate consistently, on-premise, off-premise or in a hybrid way.
The resulting architecture complies with all the customer-specific functional requirements and constraints identified in the former step (requirement analysis).
Assistance and follow-up in defining the solution's build and run steps, targeting a devops approach when possible/appropriate.
In most cases, this requires a dedicated team which Impact HPC can coordinate via partner organizations.
Impact HPC also proposes a wide range of short-run services to technological and service partners such as assistance in their presales activities, customer or partner visits/meetings, evangelization, studies, scientific publications, white papers, tech talks, panels...