Manage Open Source Collaboration with a Unified Control Plane
What is Parallel Works ACTIVATE?
Parallel Works ACTIVATE is a compute control plane that empowers teams to seamlessly provision, manage, and share compute resources at scale across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud). Designed to simplify infrastructure complexity, ACTIVATE enhances productivity and collaboration through intuitive interfaces and API-driven processes.
With advanced cost control, budgeting tools, and support for flexible cluster creation, ACTIVATE helps organizations optimize high-performance computing for research, simulation, and AI workloads.
ACTIVATE interacts with various open-source tools such as Kubernetes (k8s) and OpenStack while also offering similar functionality to open-source HPC platforms.
ACTIVATE for Open Source Tools
Kubernetes Integration
- Simplified UI/API, GPU orchestration, usage tracking, cost control, and unified access management
- Deploys workloads directly into Kubernetes clusters
- Manages GPU fractionalization and smart workload placement
- Offers a unified UI, API, and CLI layer over Kubernetes for technical and non-technical users
- Enables multi-cluster orchestration and full workload portability
OpenStack Integration
- Unified hybrid control, access management, policy enforcement
- One-click deployment of clusters using batch schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF), Kubernetes, or direct VMs
- Support for multi-tenant teams with flexible cluster sharing and collaboration
- Dynamic provisioning of storage volumes (e.g., NetApp ONTAP) with hybrid bursting to AWS FSx for ONTAP
- Real-time cost tracking, usage dashboards, and billable resource tagging
- Seamless integration across OpenStack and cloud environments for workload migration or bursting
Open Source HPC Tools Comparison
- Modern interface, hybrid/cloud capable, application support and maintenance, and automation
- Unified portal for accessing on-prem, cloud, and hybrid compute
- Native support for containers, virtual machines, and Kubernetes
- Cost tracking, GPU sharing, and usage analytics unavailable in most open-source HPC tools
- One-click access to Jupyter, RStudio, remote desktops, VS Code, and more
- Built-in collaboration, user role management, and multi-site support out of the box
