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

60s

Time to provision a researcher or student workstation — no IT ticket, no queue

2×

Up to 2× more concurrent users from existing GPU hardware — same cluster, same hardware, time slicing handles the rest

Built for campus compute

One cluster for research and creative programs

One cluster for research and creative programs

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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.