Education & Research
Research-grade compute for every lab. A workstation for every student.
Research universities run Orion for HPC clusters and genomics pipelines. Creative schools use the same infrastructure for GPU-accelerated student workstations. On-prem, on budget, without a dedicated platform team. Cambridge Computer handles campus procurement. Juno handles the rest.
Education & research outcomes
Zero
IT tickets per workstation request — students and researchers provision their own environments directly
Time to provision a researcher or student workstation — no IT ticket, no queue
Up to 2× more concurrent users from existing GPU hardware — same cluster, same hardware, time slicing handles the rest
Built for campus compute
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HPC and simulation workloads
Run MPI jobs, GPU simulations, and containerized research pipelines on shared infrastructure. No separate SLURM cluster. No separate Kubernetes cluster. One compute plane for the whole department.
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Multi-department resource sharing
Each department, lab, or grant gets a namespace with its own resource quota. Shared hardware. Isolated workloads. Accurate usage reporting for grant reconciliation — no spreadsheets.
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60-second student workstations
Students request a workstation and get one in 60 seconds. GPU-accelerated, application-ready, no assigned machines, no booking system. When the session ends, the environment is destroyed — ready for the next student.
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Industry-standard tools on day one
Creative and simulation tools delivered as containerized or VM-based workstations. Windows and Linux environments on the same cluster. Extend via Helm on Terra — add your studio's toolchain without IT licensing headaches.
Academic workloads on Orion
Research cluster management
Shared GPU and CPU clusters managed by 1–2 IT staff, serving dozens of research teams simultaneously
Grant-based usage tracking
Per-course, per-department, per-semester chargeback from day one. Bursar-ready reports land without TAs scraping log files at term's end.
Animation and VFX lab
GPU-accelerated workstations for animation students, on-demand and destroyed after each session — no machine assignments, no booking wars
Remote student access
Students access GPU-accelerated workstations from any device — same experience whether they're on campus or remote
Faculty research compute
Research faculty provision dedicated compute environments for experiments without waiting on IT queues or shared cluster scheduling
IT team reduction
Self-service provisioning means a 1–2 person IT team can support hundreds of concurrent users across research and creative programs
Built for the budgets and timelines research actually has.
Orion doesn't require a hyperscaler's infrastructure budget or team size. A 1–2 person IT team runs it. Research scales without hiring more engineers.

