Solve your most complex problems, faster.
You’ve built the applications to solve your most challenging problems. Now all you need is the competitive advantage: you need high performance computing (HPC). Use SoftLayer’s ever-ready, flexible cloud and start reaping the rewards of HPC.
Workload: Meet your match.
Regardless of the size and scale of your workload, SoftLayer will provide you with the perfect fit to unlock its true potential.
It doesn’t matter if you choose a single high-end Xeon CPU in the cloud running for a few hours, or a solution with multiple servers running quad CPUs, 1024GB of RAM, Solid State Drives, and the latest NVIDIA K80 GPUs, you will always get the same hard- working bare metal infrastructure, a data center that is local to you, and a single-tenant environment.
Find out what type of resources you need by checking our industry solutions. Discover how our 30-minute-deployable servers are at a price point that matches your workload— whether it’s for one time, sometimes, or all of the time.
Industry Use Cases
The advantages of HPC in the cloud span industries. SoftLayer GPU servers feature NVIDIA GPU cards and are ideal for general purpose, high-performance (massive computation) software, or video-processing intensive tasks, including:
- Data mining
- Numerical analysis
- Video processing
- Electronic design automation
- Bio-informatics & medical
- imaging
- 3d video modeling
- Rendering
- Transcoding
| Financial Services Ensure accuracy when performing large- numbered complex financial transactions. | Gaming Process and render data and graphics faster for high game performance. | Scientific Research Solve complex molecular modeling calculations faster, or analyze massive amounts of seismic data. | Healthcare Log on to your desktop from any workstation within the network facility without slowing down traffic. | Graphic Design Experience smooth, rich multimedia applications, including 3D-intesive programs. |
Extreme performance from NVIDIA
GPU meets a high performance cloud.
SoftLayer is the first cloud provider to offer NVIDIA’s new Tesla K80 cards, which are capable of providing 8.5 single-precision TFLOPS, 2.9 double-precision TFLOPS, with a 480 GB/s bandwidth.
Deploy the ultimate performance on demand, and pay for it only as long as you need it. Once deployed, take advantage of uninterrupted access to our entire automated portfolio of services. Manage everything from our easy-to-use customer portal, or hook your own management systems into ours using our industry-leading, comprehensive, open API.
All SoftLayer cloud resources are delivered from data centers across our global network to optimize performance and simplify management, so your GPU servers can seamlessly interact with the bare metal and virtual resources in your database, application, and web tiers.
Explore the K80 and other GPUs running on bare metal servers.
GPU Options
NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU: 2 x Kepler GK210Memory: 24GB GDDR5
NVIDIA CUDA Cores: 2 x 2496
 2 x 240GB/sec
($2,479. monthly)
NVIDIA GRID K2
GPU: 2 x Kepler GK104Memory: 8GB GDDR5
NVIDIA CUDA Cores: 2 x 1536
 2 x 160GB/sec
($1,995. monthly)
Push the pedal to the bare metal.
Getting the most out of your SoftLayer solution.
It's easy to make the choice to accelerate your HPC solution with a GPU. SoftLayer offers various NVIDIA GPUs that balance out your needs. But you don’t have to settle there.
SoftLayer and IBM’s commitment to OpenPower means that you can now choose cloud hosted bare-metal servers with POWER8 CPU’s, this allows you more access to the CPU and more POWER to you.
POWER8 Servers
POWER8 C812L-S
POWER8 C812L-M
POWER8 C812L-L
POWER8 C812L-SSD
SoftLayer lets you pick a data center that’s local to you and your workload. Then you can add the extra power of Solid State Drives, choose up to 10Gbps network uplinks, as well as configure 14 areas of the server, tailoring each server to your requirements.
When it comes to managing your workloads, we also recommend adding best-in-class software like IBM Platform Symphony for grid management and smart scheduling, IBM Platform LSF for more efficient and complete workload management, and IBM Spectrum Scale to manage large unstructured datasets.
Chat with a SoftLayer team member to learn more about our HPC offering.