Introducing Ziastra
Ziastra by Open Origin is a groundbreaking supercomputing platform empowering transformative research and innovation for massive AI and scientific workloads. As the first Supercomputer-as-a-Service (SCaas) offering, Ziastra provides organizations with access to unprecedented computing power in a carbon-free, flexible framework. This enables teams to tackle complex challenges and accelerate discoveries, driving advancements in multiple fields while ensuring environmental responsibility.
What is a Supercomputer?
A supercomputer consists of many individual computing nodes, working in synchronicity under the control of a single operating system, sharing many of the system’s resources such as memory and storage.
It is scaled up, not scaled out, designed for the largest-scale research, science, and AI projects, tasks that require immense processing power, such as scientific simulations, weather forecasting, molecular modeling, and large-scale data analysis.
How is that Different from a Hyperscaler?
Hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, provide large-scale cloud computing and storage capacity, often with thousands of independent servers for businesses and individuals globally. Hyperscaler nodes usually don’t communicate with each other, so programmers must take the responsibility of coordinating activity across multiple nodes, whereas with a supercomputer, the operating system manages this. This can lead to hyperscalers having significantly higher complexity, costs, and chance of programmatic errors, compared with Ziastra.
What is Ziastra ?
Providing a scalable Supercomputing-as-a-Service (SCaaS) platform, for the first time Ziastra makes national lab-scale computing accessible via a secure cloud. With a fully managed infrastructure, Ziastra boosts productivity and reduces costs, freeing up your computer scientists to focus on their projects instead of maintaining the computer systems. Ziastra’s unique offerings include:
- Hardware and operating system maintenance and optimization
- Application integration and optimization
- Dedicated air-gapped cybersecurity environment
- Dedicated physical network link to customer data center
- Available high-speed storage on customer premises at no additional cost
- The latest high-performance GPUs and accelerators
In summary, while both Ziastra and hyperscalers provide powerful computing resources, Ziastra focuses on delivering specialized, high-performance solutions for specific scientific and AI applications, whereas hyperscalers offer broad, scalable infrastructure for a wide variety of computing needs.
Open Origin Value Proposition
National Lab Quality
Ziastra is meticulously engineered with the same advanced machines used in national supercomputing labs. This allows customers to deploy their projects instantly to meet their demand for intensive, scalable computing with precision and reliability.
Beyond cutting-edge hardware, Ziastra delivers a complete ecosystem including an expert operational team and a comprehensive array of productivity tools and services. Open Origin works with clients to customize, manage, and optimize their software on the Ziastra platform, while providing state-of-the-art security.
Business Focused
Ziastra empowers organizations to focus on their core initiatives—whether in science, research, or AI—by removing the complexities of infrastructure management. With seamless access to power, storage, GPU resources, data security, and staffing, everything is readily available, enabling innovation without limitations.
Fast Deployment
Ziastra will eliminate the capital expense risks tied to traditional infrastructure, while providing operational flexibility. Ziastra will operate entirely on energy generated on-site, eliminating the need for a grid connection and avoiding associated delays.
Beyond Net Zero Sustainability
For its on-site deployments, Ziastra redefines green supercomputing by using 100% renewable energy, without relying on carbon offsets or capture, and without impacting other grid users.