Alces Software was formed in 2008 by a group of IT professionals with the aim of simplifying software configuration and management for Linux-powered high performance compute cluster and storage systems.

We’re experienced

Advice you can trust from experienced HPC professionals.

With our comprehensive HPC knowledge we’ll get you going quickly and cost-effectively and help you to get the best from your system in the long term.

Our experienced presales team will work with you to help design your high-performance environment and with sophisticated integration services you can be assured that your HPC environment will arrive running at peak efficiency.

Once designed, our engineering team will construct your high-performance environment to your specification incorporating high-throughput CPU technologies, large memory servers, parallel filesystems, remote visualisation technologies, GPGPU and special-purpose devices and high performance interconnects.

We’re open

We’ll help you bring it all together.

We can provide advice on which components work well together, helping you to build your own customized HPC solution that will work well for your chosen applications. We work with you to help design your high-performance compute and storage environments and can provide demonstration environments and benchmarking facilities to assist you in making your decision.

Our vendor-neutral solutions allow you to select the hardware you want from the manufacturers you’re comfortable with. Our engineers have experience using a wide variety of different hardware platforms and would be pleased to discuss implementation options with you.

Contact us for information on how we can design a solution specifically for your company or institution.

We’re agile

We’ll work with you, in the way that suits you best.

We have the expertise to deliver solutions to your requirements and timescales as well as the capability to provide multiple tiers of support, ranging from web-based software and cluster configuration support to fully managed HPC and cloud solutions, allowing you to select the best way for us to work alongside your organisation.

Our internal project management and software development teams are experts at delivering solutions that meet your requirements and timescales, while maintaining the flexibility to build, service and install clusters built from the latest, cutting-edge components. Where ever you buy your computers from, we can deliver a fully integrated solution that will get you up and running as quickly as possible after delivery.

We’ll be with you every step of the way to achieving your HPC ambitions.