Federated console for HPC + AI
Every cloud, cluster, classification, GPU contract, and site. One console.
The fabric that connects your clusters, your clouds, and your GPU contracts — hosting the applications and enforcing the policy, in every environment you operate.
- Any cloud + on-prem
- hyperscaler, neocloud, your floor
- IL5 ATO
- FedRAMP High baseline
- Since 2015
- federating compute


Built for speed. Built for security.
Turn a GPU contract into a running environment in days
Procuring capacity takes months and standing it up takes more. ACTIVATE meets the hardware where it is — your cluster, a hyperscaler, a dedicated GPU provider — and hands your teams a governed environment with SSO, budgets, Slurm and Kubernetes on day one.
- →Scientists train models instead of managing infrastructure
- →Spend attributed per project, team, and user in real time
- →Existing workflows run unchanged
Inherit an accredited boundary instead of building one
ACTIVATE holds an IL5 ATO on the FedRAMP High baseline and spans commercial clouds and on-prem DSRCs. Third-party mission software is served inside that boundary today, with CAC/PIV identity and full audit built into the platform.
- →Began as a DIU prototype, transitioned to production
- →IL6 in prototype, rolling out across SDREN DSRCs
- →Labeled data planes and accredited cross-domain mediation
One control plane, every capability
ACTIVATE federates your clusters, clouds, and GPU contracts into one governed console — without changing how your teams already operate.
Engineers who deploy alongside you
Not every deployment needs them — ACTIVATE stands on its own, and per-user licensing is there when you would rather run it yourself. But the programs that move fastest pair the platform with our engineers: they stand the environment up, integrate your applications and data, carry the security and compliance work your environment calls for, and stay on through operations. The software is the tool; your work running is the outcome.
A life sciences customer told us their blood pressure goes down when they talk to Parallel Works.
Recent work
News & eventsIL5 across commercial clouds and on-prem DSRCs over DREN, with third-party mission software served inside the boundary.
Federal multi-cloud research computing run without interruption since 2020 — the longest-standing proof that this model holds up.
Biomedical researchers reach their computing resources through one console — across genomics, pathology, and drug development — without managing the infrastructure underneath.
- IL5 ATO
- HPCMP
- FedRAMP
- High baseline
- CAC/PIV
- ICAM
- Zero Trust
- architecture
Built for the boundary, not bolted onto it. Learn about HSP
Bring us your hardest environment
We will show you ACTIVATE running against it — on-prem, cloud, or both, at whatever classification the work requires.

