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Education
Customer Overview
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) is one of Pakistan’s most prestigious universities, renowned for its academic excellence, strong faculty, and global alumni network. IBA continuously strives to provide world-class education, fostering innovation, research, and leadership across disciplines.
Challenges
With growing research demands in emerging fields such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs), fluid dynamics, and big data analytics, IBA required a robust and scalable computing environment. The existing infrastructure lacked the computational power and flexibility to handle high-volume data processing, advanced simulations, and research-driven workloads across multiple departments.
Solution
To address these challenges, IBA collaborated with Innolytix Pakistan, a Tier-1 Gold Partner of Sangfor Technologies, to deploy a dedicated and extensible High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster powered by Sangfor Technologies.
The new HPC cluster provides:
- Virtualized research environments for various academic and industrial projects
- Enhanced compute performance for data-intensive simulations and analytics
- Scalable architecture that can grow with evolving research needs
- Centralized management and resource allocation for faculty and student research teams
This infrastructure not only supports long-term research theses but also facilitates hands-on experimentation within short-term academic courses.
Implementation
- End-to-end design, supply, and deployment managed by Innolytix Pakistan.
- Sangfor HCI-based architecture delivering high performance and simplified management.
- Integration with research applications used in scientific computing and AI research.
- Rapid deployment ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing academic operations.
Results & Benefits
- Accelerated research productivity across data science, AI, and engineering disciplines
- Optimized compute resource utilization with dynamic workload management
- Empowered faculty and students with access to modern computational tools
- Future-ready infrastructure supporting both academic and industry-led projects
Conclusion
Through this initiative, IBA Karachi has taken a major leap in establishing a world-class research infrastructure that aligns with global academic standards. The Sangfor-powered HPC Cluster, deployed by Innolytix Pakistan, reinforces IBA’s commitment to technological advancement and research excellence in Pakistan’s higher education landscape.