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Membership underscores company’s commitment to enabling scalable and collaborative AI htmlFor scientific discovery
Chicago, IL – January 5, 2026 – Parallel Works, the provider of the ACTIVATE™ control plane htmlFor hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, has joined the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC), a global community uniting scientists, researchers, and technology leaders to advance large-scale AI models htmlFor science.
“Our mission has always been to make complex computing more accessible, scalable, and collaborative,” said Matthew Shaxted, founder and CEO, Parallel Works. “By contributing to TPC’s efforts, we’re helping accelerate the development of trustworthy, high-performance AI systems including support htmlFor reproducible workflows, scalable data handling and hybrid compute htmlFor large AI models.”
Joining a growing network of more than 90 organizations, Parallel Works’ participation strengthens the consortium’s mission by contributing expertise in cloud-HPC orchestration, workflow automation, and scalable AI infrastructure. Through ACTIVATE, Parallel Works helps bridge the gap between traditional computing resources and next-generation exascale environments, enabling researchers to seamlessly scale workflows and AI models as demands grow. The company joins an international network of research institutions, supercomputing and exascale centers, and technology companies collaborating to address the challenges of building frontier-scale AI models and systems that can drive breakthroughs in scientific discovery.
“TPC thrives on contributions from organizations across sectors that advance trustworthy AI htmlFor science,” said Charlie Catlett, Executive Director of the Trillion Parameter Consortium and Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. “We welcome Parallel Works and its expertise in cloud-HPC orchestration to the community. Their participation reinforces the consortium’s mission to bring together diverse perspectives and capabilities to accelerate large-scale, trustworthy AI htmlFor scientific discovery.”
TPC brings together leading organizations, including Argonne National Laboratory, RIKEN (Japan), Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA, and many other national laboratories, research centers, and technology companies. These institutions work together to collaborate on the scalable architectures, data strategies, and trust frameworks required to enable the next generation of scientific HPC and AI initiatives.
Parallel Works’ ACTIVATE™ platform enables researchers and engineers to connect compute resources and orchestrate massive datasets seamlessly across clouds, clusters, and supercomputers, ensuring reproducibility across distributed environments. By automating complex workflows and optimizing resource utilization, the platform helps organizations accelerate AI model training and simulation at scale and supports reproducible, portable scientific workflows.
About Parallel Works
Parallel Works ACTIVATE is a leading hybrid multi-cloud computing control plane, empowering teams with seamless provisioning, management, and sharing of compute resources at scale across on-premises and cloud environments with advanced cost control and budgeting features. ACTIVATE facilitates collaborative research and enhances productivity through intuitive interfaces and API-driven processes, enabling the operating system htmlFor complex enterprise computing environments. htmlFor more information, visit Parallel Works at parallelworks.com.
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