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Idea to Entrepreneurship
March 10, 2012
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
• 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
About Nimbix
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
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
Founders
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
Geophysicists could image and characterize deep wells over a weekend
Biologists at MD Anderson could assemble genome data in one day versus five
Radiologists could process images in minutes versus hours
Imagine if . . .
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
• 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
The Nimbix Solution
Cloud Processing Workflows
• Cloud resources to serve applications in bioinformatics, energy, graphics, rendering, computational science
• Hardware accelerated platforms
• Web-based workflows, work-load management, multi-tenant, or dedicated machines
Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud
User submits job via web application:
Compute NodesGraphics
Processors
Compute Nodes Reconfigurable
Accelerators
Route jobs, configure resources
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
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
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
• Faster data processing = shorter time to results
• Increased processing volume and capacity
• Improved workflow
• Reduced operating costs
• No upfront equipment investment
Value of a Nimbix cloud service
Idea to Entrepreneurship
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
Idea
i de a∙ ∙
Noun: 1. A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
2. A concept or mental impression.
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
Entrepreneurship
en tre pre neur∙ ∙ ∙
Noun: 1. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
• 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
Possibilities and Risk
• Deploying FPGA equipped machines to process data faster
• Build a datacenter full of these reconfigurable machines
• Roll it out as a “cloud” offering
Nimbix Idea
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
• A structure for turning ideas into businesses
• It’s 101, but this was one of our first steps
• Creates a foundation for Entrepreneurship
Business Plan
MIT Enterprise Forum, March 10, 2012
Investment and Action
• Leave a steady paycheck, gamble savings, retirement
• Defy gravity - Tenacity and will
• Execute