Parallel Works, Inc. and CoreWeave, Inc. today announced the deployment of a managed AI and high-performance computing platform for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Network of Optimal Dynamic Energy Signatures (NODES) program.
The managed platform, delivered through Parallel Works’ ACTIVATE control plane and built on CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform, provides researchers with immediate access to the large-scale computing, orchestration software, and technical support required for advanced biological modeling and AI, without the delays and complexity of building and managing infrastructure.
The rapid adoption of AI is reshaping scientific research. Delivering AI cloud infrastructure, however, can take months, which can delay research and consume technical resources. By delivering a fully managed environment, Parallel Works and CoreWeave allow researchers to train AI models and run complex simulations within days rather than weeks or months.
NODES addresses complex challenges in the dynamics of biological systems, work that requires large-scale, dependable computing resources. Rapid access to dedicated GPU resources enables program performers to pursue simulation and modeling campaigns without delays associated with accessing and managing infrastructure.
Researchers access the environment through a single sign-on, with the ACTIVATE platform combining direct support, dedicated compute, unified orchestration and operational visibility:
- End-to-end support: Parallel Works operates the environment for DARPA through its ACTIVATE platform, which handles user onboarding, identity and access, provisioning, scheduling, and reporting, with around-the-clock direct-to-expert support for both the platform and researcher applications.
- Dedicated compute capacity: A dedicated reservation on NVIDIA HGX H100 systems, enterprise-scale storage, and high-speed NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking. Parallel Works ACTIVATE divides the reservation across the NODES research teams, so each team holds a guaranteed allocation and can draw on shared capacity when it is available.
- Unified orchestration: Parallel Works ACTIVATE enables DARPA researchers to access SUNK and CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS) uniformly from a single platform. SUNK, CoreWeave’s Slurm on Kubernetes offering, enables researchers to run workloads of different kinds and sizes efficiently in the same underlying compute environment. ACTIVATE manages the accounts, allocations, and sharing policies that determine how the research teams use those resources.
- Operational visibility: Parallel Works ACTIVATE provides the program and each research team usage and utilization reporting across the environment, while CoreWeave’s observability stack monitors the health of the underlying fleet, so issues are caught at the infrastructure layer before they cost time on a multi-week run.
More information on The Network of Optimal Dynamic Energy Signatures (NODES) program DARPA NODES can be found here: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/nodes
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Parallel Works and CoreWeave to Accelerate DARPA Biological Research with Fully Managed AI Cloud Environment
Parallel Works, Inc. and CoreWeave, Inc. today announced the deployment of a managed AI and high-performance computing platform for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Network of Optimal Dynamic Energy Signatures (NODES) program.
The managed platform, delivered through Parallel Works’ ACTIVATE control plane and built on CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform, provides researchers with immediate access to the large-scale computing, orchestration software, and technical support required for advanced biological modeling and AI, without the delays and complexity of building and managing infrastructure.
The rapid adoption of AI is reshaping scientific research. Delivering AI cloud infrastructure, however, can take months, which can delay research and consume technical resources. By delivering a fully managed environment, Parallel Works and CoreWeave allow researchers to train AI models and run complex simulations within days rather than weeks or months.
NODES addresses complex challenges in the dynamics of biological systems, work that requires large-scale, dependable computing resources. Rapid access to dedicated GPU resources enables program performers to pursue simulation and modeling campaigns without delays associated with accessing and managing infrastructure.
Researchers access the environment through a single sign-on, with the ACTIVATE platform combining direct support, dedicated compute, unified orchestration and operational visibility:
More information on The Network of Optimal Dynamic Energy Signatures (NODES) program DARPA NODES can be found here: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/nodes
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