Services

Aethia's services are studied to share our expertise and knowledge in order to help you with your requirements.

Computer Cluster Design

Complying with your requirements we design, install and configure cluster Linux, delivering ready-to-use systems including all the needed software.

We propose:

• Our expertise and professionalism to optimize your investments
• Planned activities to solution deployment
• Support and assistance for system use

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Technical consultancy services

Parallel programming
We design and develop parallel software or we adapt your source code in order to parallelize it. We estimate the most suitable approach among message passing, shared memory and other kinds of distributed computing.

Codes optimisation
We analyse your computing codes and if necessary we provide some optimizations at algorithm level, programming language, codification, computing libraries, compilation, and parallel implementation. We provide tuning, benchmarking and scalability studies.

Numerical simulations
Numerical simulation problems can be studied and estimated by our team in order to identify, develop or adapt the suitable computing code. We can also deal with optimization problems, quantify computing resources and analyze the opportunity to work on parallel architectures.

Scientific applications software
We develop and supplement new software packages and libraries for numerical computing, in particular for data elaboration and visualization, both in Windows and in Linux environment.

We propose:

• Our expertise and professionalism to optimize your investments
• Support and assistance for codes maintenance and updates
• Possible training to learn the techniques used
• The use of reliable and validated open-source technologies

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Training

We provide training courses for staff education both for cluster administrating and managing and also for parallel programming techniques.

We offer:

• personalized training course
• Tests and examples on real systems

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Assistance

We propose assistance contracts for remote assistance of HPC systems administration and use. We provide Personalized sets based on annual contracts or work hour voucher.

We propose:

• Our expertise and professionalism to facilitate your daily work
• Remote interventions to reduce timing and costs
• Accurate Reports of the performed activities

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Time Machine on parallel computers

We make time machine available on our clusters and we provide support and the necessary information for their use.

We propose:

• Costs reduction for limited demands in the time
• Software environment customization
• Support and assistance in order to maximize productivity

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Housing

We propose to host your machine in our computing rooms, assuring service continuity, supplying technical and management support.

We propose:

• TCO reduction (lower costs of electricity consumption, conditioning, sysadmin)
• Service continuity guarantee
• Saving space avoiding computing rooms in your centre
• Support and assistance in order to maximize your productivity

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Hardware renting

We propose personalized hardware renting, to have the use of hardware on your site with very defined and time limited costs.

We offer:

• Total fiscally deductible costs
• Service continuity is guaranteed
• Support and assistance in order to maximize your productivity
• Minimal cash surrender value