Who uses Frontier?
Government Agencies

U.S. government leaders: choose Frontier to win globally, in the marketplace and on the battlefield.

Whether you're providing decision support analysis for the war fighter, discovering clean energy solutions, streamlining a data center, or solving other compute-intensive problems to help the U.S. maintain leadership, the Frontier® Enterprise Grid delivers virtually unlimited HPC capacity. This reliable, scalable, affordable solution can help government users:

  • Fight terrorism. Mining data, decrypting messages, identifying vulnerabilities, and optimizing war-related plans are critical problems that require huge amounts of computing power. It's easily provided by Frontier.
  • Go green. Executive Order 13423 outlines objectives for green purchasing and reuse. The government has spent billions on IT infrastructure, but only a fraction of the available processing power is used. Frontier can optimize computing resources, with benefits from improving business continuity to saving energy.
  • Accelerate discovery. Innovation is a key to economic development and our nation's ability to compete, and innovation demands HPC. Unlike clusters or "big iron," Frontier has no application domain limitations and eliminates any need to "game the queue" to get your computations done on time. Users can run jobs simultaneously and choose the power level they desire — a few nodes or thousands — thanks to flexible Computation on DemandSM.
  • Stay focused. With all the responsibilities you and your agency face, the last thing you need to worry about is an overextended data center and an unreliable HPC solution. With Frontier, you get a mature, proven, COTS solution. No buying more hardware and further taxing your data center. No paying a contractor to try building a grid from scratch. In an afternoon, you can easily install and deploy Frontier Enterprise in your data center or on a private agency network. Result: instant supercomputing capacity.
  • Buy American. Parabon is an American-owned small business, and since our founding in 1999, we've taken seriously the U.S. supercomputing laws and our role as HPC experts. We have never used offshore programming to develop our products.

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How will Frontier help you?

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Wondering if your application is suited for Frontier?

Applications ideally suited to Frontier are those with high compute-to-data ratios. The compute-to-data ratio for a task refers to the amount of time required for its uninterrupted execution on an engine versus the time required for its network transmission (both the time for data and code to be transmitted to the engine and the time required for the return of final results). The compute-to-data ratio for a job is simply the average of the compute-to-data ratios of its tasks.