HPCClusters is a small, independent practice — not a reseller. Our engineers and executives bring a combined well over a century of experience in HPC, cloud, and data centers.
Steve Jones is currently the Director of the High Performance Computing Center at Stanford University. In this role, he oversees the management and operation of a large-scale computing environment that primarily supports federally-funded sponsored research.
Jones is also active in the broader HPC and AI industry community, helping convene leaders from academia, government, and industry to advance how these technologies are applied to some of the world's most pressing challenges.
He has designed and administered numerous Top 500 supercomputers, speaks regularly about the management of high performance computing clusters, and offers a number of graduate-level, continuing education, and HPC training courses.
Jones is passionate about the small-to-medium HPC cluster enterprise and enabling others in the space to leverage well-established free and open-source solutions to support their environments.
We're based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are primarily interested in being a local resource to small companies here. Our advisors and consultants range from people who enjoy a small DevOps or admin task to people who have designed and operated hyperscale data centers — so you get the right expertise for the problem in front of you, not a bigger engagement than you need.
Standing up a few servers, taming a Slurm or Kubernetes setup, automating builds, or simply getting a second set of eyes on your environment. Small, practical jobs are exactly the kind of work we like helping with.
Designing and deploying OpenHPC and Kubernetes clusters, connecting them to the cloud, and getting your team productive on them.
Advisors who have designed and operated hyperscale data centers, available when growth or AI workloads call for serious power, cooling, and facility planning.
That's the whole pitch — real cluster experience, applied to your environment.