Even the most elegant architecture fails to deliver value if it is not executed cleanly on the ground. Our HPC deployment service brings the entire chain — from site preparation to final acceptance testing — under a single accountable team. We do not hand you the keys the moment the boxes are unpacked. We stay engaged until the cluster has completed its first real workloads with stability.
What turnkey means in practice
- Single point of accountability. One engineering team replaces a chain of suppliers — no finger-pointing.
- Site-specific plan. Datacentre, university machine room, or industrial site — each environment gets its own cabling, cooling, and security approach.
- Documented acceptance criteria. Instead of “it works” we use a measurable acceptance protocol; every line is signed off.
Deployment phases
Site preparation and logistics
Before the hardware arrives, the site itself must be HPC-ready. Skipping this leads to surprises on installation day:
- Power draw analysis and PDU layout, redundancy planning
- Cooling capacity, airflow design, hot/cold aisle organisation
- Physical security, fire detection, water-leak sensors
- Structural checks (load capacity, cable trays)
- Logistics coordination: customs, transport, on-site access permits
Hardware installation
- Rack and chassis mounting, structured cabling (high-speed copper + fibre)
- Physical layout of servers, GPUs, storage arrays, and switches
- InfiniBand HDR/NDR or high-speed Ethernet network topology
- BMC, IPMI, and out-of-band management network
- Labelling and as-built documentation
Software stack installation
- Automated OS provisioning (PXE, image-based deployment)
- Cluster management with Bright Cluster Manager or open-source alternatives (xCAT, Warewulf)
- SLURM / PBS Pro scheduler setup, queue policies, user authorisation
- Parallel filesystem architecture: BeeGFS / Lustre / Spectrum Scale
- Container runtime (Apptainer/Singularity, Charliecloud)
- HPC toolchain (compilers, MPI, math libraries, performance tooling)
- User applications: ANSYS, Schrödinger, OpenFOAM, GROMACS, AMBER, and more
Acceptance testing and bring-up
- HPL/HPCG for raw performance verification — proving the contracted numbers are real
- I/O performance tests (IOR, mdtest)
- Network throughput and latency measurements (OSU benchmarks)
- 24–72 hour stability runs under load — thermal, power, and error-rate monitoring
- End-to-end validation with your own applications
- Our team does not leave the site before the formal acceptance is signed
User handover
- A 2-day workshop for administrators (cluster ops, user/quota management, monitoring)
- A 1-day SLURM and application-usage course for end users
- Data and account migration from the old system (zero-loss target)
- Operational runbook and emergency procedures
What is included
- Site readiness audit and report
- All hardware installation, cabling, labelling
- Software stack installation and customisation
- Acceptance test protocol, execution, and report
- As-built architecture diagrams and operations documentation
- Administrator and end-user training
- 30 days of post-installation hyper-care at no additional charge
Common short questions
Can you take over a deployment that another integrator started?
Yes. We have experience inheriting partial deployments. The first step is always an independent technical audit; we then complete the missing parts and run full acceptance testing.
We bought the hardware ourselves — can we use you for installation only?
Absolutely. Sourcing through Mevasis is never a prerequisite. We deliver install-only turnkey contracts on systems procured anywhere.
How long does deployment typically take?
Once the site is ready: 2–3 weeks for a small cluster (4–10 nodes), 4–6 weeks for mid-size (20–50 nodes), and 8–14 weeks for large centres. The most common cause of delay is incomplete site preparation and customs surprises — we manage these in the consulting phase to avoid them.
What support is available after deployment?
30 days of hyper-care is included. After that, our HPC Operations & Support service offers tiered SLA options.
Next stage
Once production starts, success depends on keeping uptime and performance day after day. Explore SLA options on the HPC Operations & Support → page.