Managed HPC Services
Enterprise Slurm Operations, HPC Architecture, and AI-Ready Cluster Management
Cylix Solutions delivers Managed HPC Services designed to support the most demanding scientific, AI, pharmaceutical, and enterprise workloads. Our services combine deep expertise in Slurm, accelerated computing, and production infrastructure operations to ensure HPC environments operate at peak efficiency, stability, and scale.
We help organizations design, deploy, optimize, and operate high-density HPC and AI clusters — transforming compute infrastructure into a reliable, scalable, and operationalized platform for research and innovation.
Managed HPC Services Overview
Our Managed HPC Services cover the full lifecycle of advanced compute environments:
Architecture → Deployment → Optimization → Ongoing Operations
Whether supporting scientific computing, AI model training, or enterprise simulation workloads, Cylix ensures HPC environments remain performant, resilient, and operationally mature.
Cluster Architecture
Cylix designs high-density HPC and AI compute environments engineered for stability, throughput, and long-term scalability. The team specializes in cluster architecture and design, high-density compute system planning, hardware benchmarking and performance validation, stability engineering and infrastructure hardening, performance tuning and optimization, and scalable cluster growth with thoughtful capacity planning.
This architecture-first approach ensures clusters are built correctly from the start, reducing performance bottlenecks and minimizing operational risk. By focusing on resilient infrastructure and validated performance, Cylix helps organizations deploy and scale compute environments that remain efficient, stable, and ready for future growth.
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Workload & Scheduler Engineering
Efficient HPC environments depend on intelligent workload orchestration. Cylix provides deep operational expertise in Slurm scheduler architecture and optimization.
Capabilities include:
- Slurm architecture design, deployment, and administration
- Scheduler optimization for throughput, fairness, and efficiency
- Partition, QoS, and fair-share policy design
- Multi-tenant resource planning and governance
- AI and machine learning training pipeline optimization
- Large-scale inference scheduling and tuning
- Automation of cluster operations and job workflows
Our Slurm expertise ensures predictable job execution, balanced resource allocation, and maximum cluster utilization.
Platform Management
Modern HPC and AI workloads rely on GPU-dense infrastructure designed for sustained performance. Cylix specializes in GPU cluster architecture and operational management.
Capabilities include:
- GPU cluster design and performance optimization
- Accelerator evaluation and emerging hardware integration
- AI training infrastructure architecture
- High-performance inference deployment design
- GPU scheduling and utilization optimization
- Power, thermal, and density planning
- Next-generation compute system engineering
We help organizations maximize accelerator performance while maintaining cluster stability and operational efficiency.
HPC Enablement
Cylix helps organizations operationalize HPC environments, ensuring users, researchers, and engineering teams can fully leverage compute infrastructure.
Capabilities include:
- Scientific computing enablement and workload onboarding
- HPC user training and administrator enablement
- Best practices for cluster usage, governance, and scheduling
- Cross-functional infrastructure leadership and advisory
- Operational performance monitoring and reporting
- Resource utilization optimization
Our approach ensures HPC environments deliver measurable value across research, engineering, and AI teams.
Slurm Training & Enablement Programs
Cylix provides hands-on Slurm training programs designed to build internal expertise and operational competency.
These training engagements help organizations confidently operate and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments.
Training offerings include:
- Slurm fundamentals and architecture overview
- Cluster installation, configuration, and deployment best practices
- Partition design, QoS policies, and fair-share configuration
- Job scheduling behavior and queue optimization
- GPU scheduling for AI and machine learning workloads
- Monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting techniques
- Multi-tenant permissions, isolation, and governance
- Automation strategies and operational workflow improvement
- Performance tuning and utilization optimization
Training programs can be customized for:
- HPC system administrators
- DevOps and infrastructure teams
- AI and machine learning engineers
- Research computing users
This accelerates internal competency while reducing operational risk.
Operations & Lifecycle Management
Cylix provides ongoing operational management to keep HPC environments stable, secure, and high performing. Our managed services cover Slurm scheduler monitoring and optimization, compute node health monitoring with proactive remediation, GPU and accelerator performance oversight, and storage and network performance management.
We also handle security hardening and access governance, OS, firmware, driver, and Slurm lifecycle management, as well as capacity forecasting and expansion planning. This managed approach ensures HPC platforms remain reliable, production ready systems.
Industry Experience
Cylix supports HPC and Slurm environments across multiple industries, including:
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
- Molecular modeling and drug discovery
- Bioinformatics and genomics pipelines
- AI-assisted research and validation
Education and Academic Research
- University research computing clusters
- Shared faculty and student HPC environments
- Grant-funded research infrastructure
Scientific and Engineering Organizations
- Simulation and modeling workloads
- Climate, physics, and environmental research
- Industrial engineering and analysis
Why Managed HPC?
Cylix combines infrastructure engineering, Slurm expertise, and operational discipline to deliver enterprise-grade HPC services.
Key advantages include:
- Specialized Slurm expertise and scheduler optimization
- Deep experience with GPU-accelerated computing environments
- Production-grade HPC architecture and operational management
- Scientific, academic, and enterprise HPC experience
- Vendor-neutral infrastructure engineering
- Full lifecycle HPC support from architecture through operations
We transform HPC environments into stable, scalable production platforms.
Engagement Models
Cylix offers flexible HPC engagement models aligned to organizational needs:
- Fully Managed HPC Services
- Co-Managed HPC Operations
- HPC Architecture and Deployment
- Slurm Optimization and Performance Tuning
- HPC Training and Enablement Programs
All engagements are backed by enterprise operational practices and clear service ownership.
Talk to a Slurm and HPC Expert
Whether deploying a new cluster or optimizing an existing HPC environment, Cylix provides the expertise to run advanced compute infrastructure with confidence, ensuring performance, stability, and scalability from day one.
Request a consultation to discuss managed Slurm HPC services, cluster architecture and deployment, GPU and AI optimization, and HPC stabilization and performance improvement.