"We have more than 300 HPC installations in the country today", says Sandeep Lodha, Tyrone

Sandeep Lodha, CEO, Tyrone Systems says how Tyrone's HPC applications are woven around green computing technologies

David Geer, an Ohio-based technology journalist defines High-Performance Computing (HPC) in a report How the investment in heavy-duty computer processing power is paying off in research output HPC as a lot of computer processing power linked together, thinking through and solving different pieces of big problems in parallel. In an interview with DQ Channels, Sandeep Lodha, CEO, Tyrone Systems says how Tyrone's HPC applications are woven around green computing technologies that support best in class, highly interoperable and non proprietary components.

Which industries need HPC most for their business processes?

Industries like Manufacturing and Engineering, Life and Material Sciences, Education and Scientific Research, Financial Services, need HPC the most for their business processes. There is increasing adoption of HPC in improving products and design. In days to come, HPC adoption is going to increase manifold.

Since you are the first pure of HPC -Cloud in India, do you think you have entered the Indian business landscape at the right time?

Yes, we think as a company we have been there for almost 14 years and HPC has always been our focus for the Indian market. I believe with the introduction of Edra On Demand we are trying to enter into a new segment of HPC on subscription model. Demand for HPC market is growing, as more and more organizations utilize computer enabled simulations to not only help them solve complex scientific, business and other technical problems but also to reduce time to market their cutting edge product or service innovations.

What are the gains behind setting up HPC in the cloud rather than on premise presence? Do you think that Indian landscape is adaptable to such high end technology upgradation?

The scenario of HPC services in India are gradually changing and fast tapping the market. Since a lot of big companies are struggling with the HPC on premise infrastructure, to avoid the risk associated with under provisioning, under utilization of HPC resources, it is beneficial for a company to move to a HPC on cloud solution. With the flexible pricing provided by Tyrone Edra with as little as the usage of $1 an hour, smaller companies can avoid investing in capex and apex intensive application environment and move to HPC on demand solution which is much affordable and require shorter run time. Since customers display a need for customized, affordable and scalable solutions, with the intellect enabled services provided by Tyrone, it intends to create a platform and spread the word of the importance of HPC market in Indian economy by engaging institutes, students, researchers, academia and companies all into one ecosystem and share knowledge and recent developments within the domain.

Can you brief about how Tyrone's applications are woven around green computing?

We have always focused on making our technologies green and energy efficient. One such example being we had designed and engineered the PARAM YUVA II Supercomputer at CDAC, India in an energy efficient manner and had built it with a Hybrid Technology that deliver higher GFLOPS per second and at significantly lower watts as compared to conventional CPU based HPC system designs. We had ensured that CDAC's ParamYuva II can run over 3000 processing cores simultaneously to achieve a peak compute performance in excess of 500 Teraflops per second and at almost half the energy consumption levels of conventional CPU based HPC systems. The CDAC ParamYuva has been adjudged 9th in Asia Pacific region and 44th across the world in a list top 500 ‘Green' supercomputers in the world as per the list announced at the Supercomputing Conference (SC'2013) in Denver, Colorado, USA, recently.

With the growing support and interest in the energy efficiency of large scale computer systems we constantly strive to make our applications green intensive.

What innovations are you planning to stay ahead in the global marketplace?

Our innovations are very basic and driven by our customers' requirements. We continuously try to build products and solution that can solve our customers concerns in the easiest way and in a very cost effective manner retaining the robustness of the solution. For example, our new generation of storage will have multiple unification which will reduce the requirement of buying multiple devices for the customer. We have been also focusing on the flexibility and with that we are trying to address the problem they face when our customer grows, hence protecting his investment for long time.

Who are you present client base in India?

We do have more than 300 HPC installation in the country today. Since we have just launched the HPC service in India we are currently given it to our select customer to test and suggest us for improvement in experience.

When did you establish Tyrone and what been the growth journey till now?

Started in 1991, Tyrone Systems is owned and managed by technocrats. We are a team of experienced, well qualified engineers who believe in delivering customer centric solutions for HPC(Supercomputing) environment. With over 5000 customers in our portfolio and over 200 deployments in HPC alone, we offer a diverse range of solutions and services for our clients from across the developing world. We do have a dedicated HPC team which supports the customers need in designing a customized HPC solution which fits in for his requirement and budget. We do have access to a large number of building blocks to design, deploy and service the customer to enhance his satisfaction via a 360 degree approach.