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What is Tachyon?

Tachyon is a self-service HPC platform designed by Invisibl Cloud to streamline the management and utilization of HPC resources on the cloud. It provides a unified interface for researchers, engineers, and IT teams to run complex simulations, manage workloads, and monitor performance—all without the typical complexities associated with HPC environments.

Tachyon for R&D teams

Tachyon provides an intuitive, simplified experience for R&D engineers to get access to Compute, Software & Data to run large scale engineering simulations.

Using Tachyon, R&D engineers can:

  • Submit jobs via a simple user interface.
  • Monitor the jobs and perform troubleshooting using the unified observability and logs features.
  • Manage their input/output data used for the simulations through a simple file manager interface.
  • Request and launch remote workstations in a self-service manner without any IT intervention.

Tachyon for IT teams

For IT teams, Tachyon provides a powerful HPC management control plane that allows them to standardize HPC security, operations & costs across the organization.

Using Tachyon, IT teams can:

  • Centrally manage HPC infrastructure across multiple Cloud accounts and regions.
  • Create budgets across projects teams and to the level of users and control the spending.
  • Can get fine grained spending information using a simplified dashboard interface.
  • Ensure the compute resources are allocated to the researchers in a fair manner using governance policies.
  • Monitor the infrastructure through a unified observability interface.

Key Features

Job Submission and Monitoring

With Tachyon, users can submit jobs to the HPC clusters and monitor their progress through a single pane of glass. The platform provides real-time visibility into job execution, enabling researchers to track the status of their simulations and troubleshoot issues quickly using integrated logs and metrics. Jobs

Workstation Machine Catalog

Tachyon features a custom machine catalog that allows users to launch remote workstations with varying compute capacities. The IT team can create new machine catalogs in various OS flavours with pre-installed application software that are applicable for different R&D use cases performed by the researchers. The IT admin can also control the type/capacity of the compute resource used for the remote workstations. This flexibility ensures that researchers can select the appropriate resources for their specific tasks, optimizing both performance and cost.Workstations

Budgets and Cost Visibility

The platform allows IT admins to create budgets across departments, projects and to the user level. The budget setup helps in controlling the spending by checking the availability of budget when the researchers run their simulations. The jobs can be submitted to the HPC system only if the project or the user has enough budget available to them.

Tachyon provides detailed insights into HPC spending, allowing organizations to track costs in real-time. The budget and spend board feature helps teams monitor expenditures at various levels—project, cluster, partition, and user—enabling continuous cost optimization and preventing overspending.Budget

Unified Observability

The platform offers unified observability, integrating monitoring tools into a single interface. This feature simplifies troubleshooting by providing comprehensive insights into cluster health, resource utilization, and workload performance, ensuring that issues are identified and resolved quickly. Observability

File Manager

Tachyon’s file manager enables users to manage input and output files directly within the platform. It also supports file sharing among colleagues, facilitating collaboration and ensuring that all team members have access to the necessary data for their projects.Filemanager

Quality of Service (QoS)

The platform’s QOS policies help maintain consistent performance across HPC environments. Tachyon’s policy-driven governance ensures that resources are allocated according to organizational priorities, preventing non-compliant resource usage and ensuring that critical tasks receive the necessary computational power. Qos

Policy-Driven Governance

Tachyon’s governance framework is policy-driven, allowing organizations to enforce compliance across all HPC resources. Policies can be set at the cluster, partition, and user levels, ensuring that all activities adhere to organizational standards and regulatory requirements.

Reports

Tachyon offers comprehensive reporting capabilities, allowing users to generate detailed reports on job execution, resource utilization, and budget compliance. These reports can be viewed and downloaded on demand, providing valuable insights for decision-making and continuous improvement. Reports

Application and Infrastructure Alerts

The platform provides customizable alerts for both application and infrastructure events. Users can set thresholds for resource usage, job failures, and other critical metrics, ensuring that they are immediately notified of any issues that may impact performance or compliance. Alerts

Security – Access Control and Data Protection

Tachyon enhances security through role-based access control (RBAC) and data encryption. The platform ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive data and HPC resources, providing a secure environment for research and development activities.

Queue Management

Tachyon offers dynamic queue management, enabling users to efficiently handle various computational workloads. The platform allows for the setup of queues that cater to different use cases, ensuring optimal resource allocation and reducing wait times for simulations and computational tasks. Queues

License Monitoring

Tachyon incorporates license monitoring to help the IT teams keep track of the license usage. This helps the admins to assess the license requirements for the simulation jobs that are currently run and for taking decisions for the future license renewal as well.