HPC Consulting

The decisions you make before the first hardware order is placed will define whether the next decade of compute investment is a quiet success or a slow disappointment. HPC consulting at Mevasis brings your workloads, scientific or engineering goals, and budget reality into the same plan — and turns it into an executable roadmap. Because we are vendor-neutral, our recommendation is the right system for you, not the inventory we are pushing.

Questions we help answer

• Are our workloads CPU-heavy, GPU-heavy, or both? How much would a hybrid architecture actually help?
• What capacity will we realistically need in 3, 5, and 10 years — will the current proposal still scale?
• On-prem, rented capacity, or a hybrid model — which gives the lowest true total cost of ownership?
• How do licensing and energy costs change the picture once we look beyond CapEx?
• Can we double effective performance through targeted modernization without scrapping the existing system?

How we map requirements

This is not a paper exercise. The same engineers who later show up on site run a measurable process:

• Workload profiling. We measure your real compute, memory, network, and I/O patterns under production conditions — your applications, not synthetic benchmarks.
• Stakeholder interviews. Structured conversations with researchers, engineers, and decision-makers: who runs what, what queue waits are unacceptable, where are the friction points?
• Architecture options. At least two, often three architectural drafts with bills of materials, performance projections, energy profiles, and 5-year TCO models.
• Risk register. Lead times, licensing dependencies, cooling capacity, learning curve — real-world constraints reported transparently rather than buried.

What you receive

• A complete HPC feasibility report (executive summary plus technical annex)
• Hardware and software stack recommendation — without vendor lock-in
• Site-readiness specification (power, cooling, physical envelope)
• A 5-year TCO model: CapEx + OpEx + licences + energy + staffing
• Licensing strategy (commercial / open-source balance)
• RFP and tender documentation support — including direct vendor negotiation if you wish

The tangible outcome

Good planning is the largest saving you book on day one. Typical results across our consulting engagements:

• 15–30 % more accurate sizing of hardware investment (no overspending, no bottlenecks)
• 40 %+ shorter queue waits in the first 12 months thanks to workload-aligned design
• Annual licence and operations savings worth thousands of dollars through optimised stack choices
• The “we bought it and then realised we needed something else” scenario disappears entirely

Common short questions

Next stage

Once the architecture is approved, the focus moves to bringing it to life. HPC Deployment → explains how we run site readiness through to acceptance testing.