(Architecture #13)
Executive Summary
SolveForce International Services delivers high-capacity, secure, and globally integrated infrastructure for research institutions, laboratories, and scientific collaborations. Our services support petascale and exascale HPC, data lake ecosystems, and high-throughput science workflows, enabling researchers to process, store, and share massive datasets with speed, accuracy, and compliance. With direct interconnects to global research networks and cloud HPC platforms, SolveForce accelerates discovery, innovation, and collaboration across borders.
Scope of Services
SolveForce’s HPC and research data solutions include:
- High-Throughput Networking: DIA, MPLS, and optical waves (10G–400G) for bulk data transfers.
- Research Network Peering: Direct access to Internet2, GEANT, APAN, and national research & education networks (NRENs).
- Data Lake Integration: On-premise and cloud-based data lake interconnects for structured/unstructured datasets.
- HPC Cluster Access: Secure connections to supercomputers, schedulers (Slurm, PBS, Kubernetes HPC).
- Cloud & SaaS Access: On-ramps to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle HPC workloads.
- Managed Services: 24/7 multilingual NOC/SOC, vendor coordination, and compliance monitoring.
Compliance Assurance
SolveForce aligns HPC and research data operations with global frameworks:
- FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for scientific data.
- GDPR for sensitive research and personal datasets.
- IRB / Ethical Standards for human subject data.
- ISO 27001 / SOC 2 for information security management.
- NIST Frameworks for research grant compliance.
Security Architecture
Our HPC and research framework applies Zero Trust + Data Integrity by Design:
- Segmentation: HPC compute, storage, and researcher endpoints logically isolated.
- Encryption: End-to-end TLS/IPsec for transfers, AES-256 for data lakes.
- Access Control: Role-based ZTNA for PIs, researchers, collaborators.
- Monitoring: SIEM/SOAR enriched with checksum/integrity validation.
- Resilience: Multi-path optical waves, geo-distributed data lake replication.
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
SolveForce commits to:
- Network Availability: ≥99.99% across DIA/optical backbones.
- Throughput: Guaranteed sustained ≥80% of 100G/400G links.
- Failover Time: <60 seconds optical reroute.
- Incident Response: Data breach containment ≤2 hours.
- DR/BCP: RTO ≤4 hours for HPC workloads; RPO ≤15 minutes for datasets.
Disaster Recovery & Continuity
SolveForce ensures HPC continuity with:
- Multi-region HPC cluster failover.
- Immutable data lake backups.
- Cloud bursting for workloads during outages.
- Quarterly DR drills with simulated HPC and data lake failures.
Value Proposition
- Discovery at Scale: High-throughput networking and HPC bursting accelerate time-to-insight.
- Data Integrity: Immutable backups and checksum validation preserve research truth.
- Compliance Built-In: GDPR, IRB, FAIR principles embedded.
- Global Collaboration: SolveForce enables cross-border projects under one unified SLA.
⚖️ Subtle Logos Embedding
- Syntax (Networks): DIA, optical waves, SD-WAN — the alphabet of science.
- Semantics (Applications): HPC jobs, datasets, data lakes — the words of discovery.
- Pragmatics (Compliance): FAIR, GDPR, IRB — the context ensuring meaning and truth in research.