WHAT WE DO

Moonshot Research™ offers a customer-first approach to reducing time-to-solution, scale, and increased certainty at less cost by effectively addressing the business side of technology.

We optimize performance and scalability to reduce complexity and cost, paying close attention to workflows real-world usage patterns.

WHO WE ARE
​The Moonshot Research™ team has deep expertise in using advanced technologies to drive ROI at FORTUNE500® companies, small and medium businesses and the technology community. We very effectively bridge the gap between decision makers and those who use technology on a daily basis.

BENEFITS FROM ENGAGING MOONSHOT RESEARCH
Speed has become the ultimate competitive advantage.  
​The Moonshot Research™ team blends the best of Enterprise IT, Cloud and HPC to deliver real-world impact.
  • Optimize performance
  • Achieve scalability
  • Reduce time-to-value
  • Reduce costs
  • Enable innovation
  • Speed to quantify certainty
  • Speed to transactions
  • Speed to innovation
  • Speed to monetization
  • Speed to ROI
  • Speed to client products and services

CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE INCLUDE:
  • HPC systems and application intelligence
  • Hybrid HPC/Enterprise architectures
  • Assessment, analysis and implementation of complex systems
  • Independent assessment of system performance and scalability
  • Parallel filesystems, data lakes, databases, object storage
  • Scale-out and scale-up strategies for on-premise and/or cloud environments
  • Advanced modeling and simulation for the manufacturing sector
  • Software-hardware optimization

FOUNDER

MERLE GILES/ FOUNDER & CEO 

  • Former Director of NCSA’s Private Sector Program at the University of Illinois (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
  • Co-Editor of 'Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices' (2015)
  • Named HPCwire “Person to Watch” in 2015
  • Expertise in strategy, finance, structural solutions, and economic impact and has been an invited speaker for a number of companies and organizations around the world
  • MBA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an undergraduate degree in accounting/business

IN THE NEWS

"Moonshot Research and Providentia Worldwide Collaborate on HPC and Big Data Services for Industry"
"Industrial HPC Community Responds in Latest Survey"
"Merle Giles' book Dives into Global Best Practices for Industrial HPC"
"Building Better Public/Private HPC Partnerships is Focus of Pending NSCA Study"

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