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Set Strategic Direction and Governance with the HPC Maturity Model
Is your business truly maximising its HPC investment? Many organisations believe they’re getting the best from their HPC solutions but the reality often reveals untapped potential. HPC maturity goes far beyond purchasing the latest hardware or leveraging cloud bursting. It’s about how deeply HPC is integrated into your workflows, how effectively your teams utilise it, and how strategically it drives innovation and performance across your business. To unlock its full value, you need a clear understanding of your current HPC maturity level and a roadmap to elevate it.
Our structured maturity assessment reviews capability across key dimensions, including:
- Support and operational service quality including how users are assisted, how issues are resolved and whether the service is proactive or reactive.
- Funding model and investment behaviour covering how HPC is resourced, whether spend is planned or ad-hoc and how value is communicated internally.
- Governance and organisational integration assessing where HPC sits within the business, how it is managed and how decisions are made.
- Vendor and partner interaction including how technology decisions are made and whether vendors are treated as transactional suppliers or strategic partners.
Transform HPC from a Fixed Cost into a Productivity-Aligned Investment
- Support evolves from reactive fixing to guided enablement, where users are helped to get more from the platform rather than just unblocking immediate issues.
- Funding shifts from procurement-led spending to investment-led planning, where budget is allocated based on value generation and future capability, not just hardware cycles.
- HPC becomes part of recognised digital infrastructure, sitting alongside other strategic platforms with clear accountability, governance and visibility at leadership level.
- Vendor and partner engagement becomes strategic rather than transactional, enabling access to roadmap influence, better commercial leverage and long-term technology alignment.
- Most importantly, HPC moves from a technical asset to a recognised business capability, understood, sponsored and supported by stakeholders beyond the immediate technical team.
Explore Our Range of HPC Consultancy Services
Strategy & Planning
Develop an HPC strategy that meets the current and future
needs of all users and includes securing funding for a sustainable solution.
Procurement
Managing the complex process of HPC technical specifications, as in-depth as required, to deliver the right solution, on time and in budget.
Implementation
Reduce downtime, mitigate risk, improve performance and ensure reliability to enhance business productivity.
Optimisation
Understand your workflows, the ratio of computational intensity vs data intensity, test performance, speed, agility, whilst analysing all HPC costs to understand its true value.
Managed Services
Boost productivity with our HPC Cloud Computing services, including expert support, system management and research engineering.
With unparalleled experience in deploying major, multi-million-pound systems worldwide, Red Oak Consulting stands as a leader in the field.
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FAQs
Use our HPC Maturity Scale to benchmark your organisation against the industry. Undertaking this exercise will highlight areas of potential strength and weakness in your organisation’s HPC solution including the value of the investment and use in high performance and research computing.
We assess HPC maturity using the Red Oak HPC Maturity Model, which scores performance, workflows, user experience and operations against best practice. The results highlight strengths, gaps and opportunities, showing where investment will deliver the greatest value.
We convert assessment findings from your HPC maturity model into a clear, outcome-driven improvement roadmap by combining our deep domain and business-understanding with your organisation’s context and priorities. This means mapping technical and operational gaps to business goals, designing a sequence of actions that align with your strategic drivers, and prioritising those actions by value and feasibility.
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