Resource Library
Solution briefs, whitepapers, case studies, and demos of ACTIVATE, the federated console for HPC and AI across every cloud, cluster, and secure environment.
ACTIVATE Overview: Commercial and Academic
ACTIVATE is a control plane that connects researchers and engineers to computing resources on premises, in the cloud, and at GPU providers under one identity. Parallel Works runs it as a service, or t...
CUI and ITAR Workloads on ACTIVATE
ACTIVATE runs inside a managed Impact Level 5 boundary with a DISA Provisional Authorization and an Authority to Operate at the NIST 800-53 High baseline. The video covers where controlled data, expor...
ACTIVATE Chargeback Capabilities
ACTIVATE attributes cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, and AI usage to users, groups, and projects, and enforces the budgets administrators set.
Connecting a Facility to the IRI API
An open-source ACTIVATE prototype connects a facility to the Department of Energy Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) API. An administrator connects the system in ACTIVATE, which generates a regi...
ACTIVATE High Security Platform vLLM and RAG Workflow
A demonstration on the ACTIVATE High Security Platform: start a GPU resource, run a vLLM and retrieval-augmented generation workflow, add documents, and query them. Length: 2 minutes 20 seconds.
Research Computing Gateway at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Powered by Parallel Works ACTIVATE
A Microsoft Academic Research Exchange session with Parallel Works and research computing leaders from Albert Einstein College of Medicine on the college's research computing gateway built on ACTIVATE...
ACTIVATE High Security Platform Video Overview
A video overview of the ACTIVATE High Security Platform, recorded in February 2025 before the IL5 Provisional Authorization and the ATO. The current overview covers the authorization timeline and gene...
ACTIVATE Marketplace and White Labeling
A researcher publishes a workflow to the ACTIVATE marketplace and chooses who can see it, an administrator marks it verified and featured, and another user adds it to their account and runs it on a co...
ACTIVATE AI Overview
ACTIVATE AI brings Kubernetes, cloud, and on-premises GPU resources and model access under one control plane, with quotas and cost tracking across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and cloud environments.
Showback and Chargeback, On Premises and Cloud
ACTIVATE meters usage from the Slurm scheduler, Kubernetes namespaces, and cloud provider cost data. Unit rates put core-hours, GPU-hours, and cloud dollars on one ledger, allocations nest under a pro...
One Login for Every Facility
Users sign in once through their organization's single sign-on, LDAP, or a Common Access Card. Behind that login, each connected system keeps its own authentication, and ACTIVATE handles jump hosts an...
ACTIVATE VS Code Workflow
A short demonstration: start a compute resource in ACTIVATE, open a VS Code session on it in the browser, and stop the job when the work is done. Length: 1 minute 32 seconds.
Driving Space Excellence: Orion's Strategy with Parallel Works ACTIVATE
A webinar co-hosted with Carahsoft: Matthew Shaxted, CEO of Parallel Works, with engineering leaders from Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company, on how Orion uses ACTIVATE for cloud HPC and digit...
Right-Sizing Hybrid Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
ACTIVATE and activate.hpc.mil: High Security Platform Overview
ACTIVATE is a control plane that connects users to computing resources on premises and in the cloud under one identity. activate.hpc.mil is its IL5 deployment for the High Performance Computing Modern...
Task Placement Across Connected Resources
ACTIVATE shows queue depth, idle cores, expected start, and remaining allocation for every connected resource. The video covers a deterministic ranking that recommends where a job should run, an AI ag...
ACTIVATE and Open Source Tools
ACTIVATE is a compute control plane. Teams use it to provision, manage, and share compute resources across on-premises and cloud environments, through a web interface, a CLI, and an API. It works with...
ACTIVATE BlastFoam Workflow
A short demonstration of the blastFoam computational fluid dynamics workflow, launched from its ACTIVATE form and run on a cluster. Length: 1 minute 16 seconds.
Modern Cost Control: Chargeback for GPU and Hybrid Cloud Environments
Navigating the ACTIVATE Platform
A tour of the ACTIVATE interface from the user guide series: the dashboard, compute, workflows, sessions, and storage. Recorded in February 2025, so some screens differ from the current interface; the...
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Customer Spotlight
Matthew Shaxted, CEO of Parallel Works, with research computing leaders from Albert Einstein College of Medicine on how the college uses ACTIVATE for research computing. Length: 8 minutes 34 seconds.