ISBC

ISBC, short for International Solution Business Consulting, Inc., is a consulting firm based in Seoul, Korea. According to its website, it was founded in 2011 by a team of HPC and open-source experts and focuses on consulting, designing and implementing IT solutions for customers’ complex challenges. It says it has spent more than 10 years focused on the HPC market segment.

ISBC provides cloud-based R&D infrastructure, mainly for high-performance computing and engineering virtual desktops (eVDI). Its offerings include remote workstation sessions through DCV with an eVDI portal that includes license usage monitoring, an HPC portal, resource management based on open-source Slurm with usage accounting and queue management for commercial simulation licenses, and Lustre file system support. It also lists real-time GPU monitoring and access to quantum resources through AWS Braket.

Solutions can run on premises, on AWS or across both, and can be purchased through ISBC’s MSP contract or the AWS Marketplace. ISBC states it provides AWS-certified consulting in standard HPC and eVDI. It mentions engineering simulation, media, AI and machine learning, and general R&D as use areas.