2. About Nimbix
• Startup High Performance
Computing Infrastructure
Company
• HPC Datacenter in
downtown Dallas
• Hardware-accelerated
servers with FPGA and
GPU technology
• Founding team with
background in computing
and datacenter operations
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3. Founders
Steve Hebert: Technical Sales & Marketing
• Built and developed teams in technology industry over 18
years
• Strong track record of sales growth both startup and large
companies: Texas Instruments; Altera Corporation;
CEO, Industryview.com
Rob Sherrard: Service Delivery
• More than 13 years designing, building and scaling massive
datacenters
• Led several startup builds through hyper-growth while
maintaining service delivery
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4. Imagine if . . .
Biologists at MD Anderson could
assemble genome data in one day
versus five
Radiologists could process images in
minutes versus hours
Geophysicists could image and
characterize deep wells over a
weekend
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5. The Nimbix Solution
• Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud
– “Low-click, Pay-per-use”
Supercomputing
– Uses hardware accelerator technology:
GPU, FPGA
– Accelerated Applications – Automated,
Optimized
• How does Nimbix solve the
problem?
– Reduces processing time – shortens
“Time-to-Results”
– Eliminates infrastructure costs
– Increase the rate of discovery
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6. Cloud Processing Workflows
User submits job via web application:
• Cloud resources to serve
applications in
bioinformatics, energy,
graphics, rendering,
computational science
Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud • Hardware accelerated
platforms
Route jobs, configure resources
• Web-based workflows,
Compute Nodes Compute Nodes work-load management,
Graphics Reconfigurable multi-tenant, or dedicated
Processors Accelerators machines
7. Launching Apps with Nimbix
User selects desired
application from
cloud portal
Advanced options
for the application
are selected
For multi-step apps,
workflow options are
selected
Input files automatically
uploaded from remote
end
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8. Value of a Nimbix cloud service
• Faster data processing = shorter time to
results
• Increased processing volume and capacity
• Improved workflow
• Reduced operating costs
• No upfront equipment investment
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10. Idea
i∙de∙a
Noun: 1. A thought or suggestion as to a
possible course of action
2. A concept or mental impression.
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11. Entrepreneurship
en∙tre∙pre∙neur
Noun: 1. A person who organizes and
operates a business or
businesses, taking on financial
risk to do so
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12. Possibilities and Risk
• We evaluate ideas often
and rapidly
• Can “what is possible”
exist in a business
model capable of
generating profits?
• Up to entrepreneur to
test the hypothesis
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13. Nimbix Idea
• Deploying FPGA
equipped machines to
process data faster
• Build a datacenter full
of these reconfigurable
machines
• Roll it out as a “cloud”
offering
14. Business Plan
• A structure for
turning ideas into
businesses
• It’s 101, but this
was one of our first
steps
• Creates a
foundation for
Entrepreneurship
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15. Investment and Action
• Leave a steady
paycheck,
gamble savings,
retirement
• Defy gravity -
Tenacity and will
• Execute
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