Sandpiper's Extreme Computing

Sandpiper provides a wide range of consulting services in high-performance/extreme super computing (HPC) which includes parallel computing, scientific and medical visualization, e-science, green initiatives, bioinformatics, grid computing, advanced database design and data mining, urban simulation and modeling, computer animation, and cluster management. We support large-scale supercomputing deployments including HPC Government sector, Commercial HPC Industry segments and supercomputing centers that are looking for the knowledge and leadership needed to architect, design, deploy and maintain supercomputing solutions that have outstanding system scalability, high performance and high availability features with robust remote management capabilities in an open supercomputer architecture. In addition, our consultants have extensive experience in custom software development, including GUI and web-based interfaces.

Functional areas we support include:

  • High-Performance/Extreme Computing
  • Scientific Computing/Modeling
  • Molecular Modeling
  • Scientific and Medical Visualization
  • Bioinformatics
  • Grid Computing Support
  • Advanced Database Design and Data Mining
  • Urban Simulation and Modeling and Computer Animation
  • Cluster Management


Other Hardware/Software solutions we support or have led as part of our extreme computing solution projects include:

  • BOINC -- 1.8+ PFLOPS
  • Folding@Home -- 5+ PFLOPS
  • Cray CX1, XT4 and XT5
  • Parabon
  • Bright Computing and Cluster Manager
  • Jaguar
  • Roadrunner
  • NEC
  • UCSD Gordon
  • Bull mobull
  • SGI
  • Voltaire's Unified Fabric Manager (UFM)
  • Moab Adaptive Computing Suite
  • Quantum
  • Appro
  • GPU Computing


For additional information on these services or how Sandpiper can help facilitate your high-performance/extreme computing needs, please contact us.