Credits, HPC, and GPUs

Credits are the unit of account for everything beyond the regular Nuvolos subscription. They are used for credit-based Application sizes, GPU computing, large file storage, database computation overage, and professional services. Credits can be purchased at any time provided you have a Nuvolos subscription, and unused Credits roll over as long as the subscription is renewed.

HPC (High Performance Computing) in Nuvolos refers to scaling Applications onto dedicated nodes for complex computational workloads. Nuvolos supports interactive HPC use cases through credit-based sizes that allocate exclusive CPU, RAM, and GPU resources to a single running Application. This makes it possible to run workloads that would otherwise require submitting to a batch cluster, while keeping the same notebook-style or IDE-style interactive workflow.

GPU computing is supported as part of the credit-based sizes. Because GPUs rely on parallel operations, they outperform regular processors for stream-processing tasks on large amounts of data - common in machine learning, scientific simulation, and image processing.