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- Matthew Shaxted: Founder & CEO
Michael Wilde: Founder & ChairmanPast Role: Argonne National Laboratory, Software Architect
Parallel Works was founded in 2015 out of Argonne National Laboratory with the goal of democratizing HPC and AI, and a strong focus on commercializing workflow technologies to reinvent the way R&D practitioners interact with diverse computing resources.
Today Parallel Works ACTIVATE is the premiere control plane for HPC and AI resources,
empowering R&D teams with seamless provisioning, management, and sharing of computing resources at scale. Designed for compute-intensive applications and AI models, ACTIVATE supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments with advanced cost control and budgeting features. Facilitating collaborative research, ACTIVATE enhances productivity through intuitive interfaces and API-driven processes, enabling flexible HPC cluster creation in the cloud.
ACTIVATE offers a suite of specialized modules – Control, Cluster, Access, and Workflow – tailored to thrive across diverse computing environments for simplified workflows and enhanced user interaction.