What Sabalcore Computing Inc. does

Sabalcore Computing Inc. operates a pure-play bare-metal High Performance Computing (HPC) cloud platform targeting engineering, scientific, and research communities. The service is built around NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking (up to 200 Gbps), Intel Xeon processors, and a direct-attached parallel file system with native RDMA over InfiniBand, purpose-built for MPI-based parallel applications rather than general-purpose virtualized cloud workloads. Customers access compute via a proprietary lightweight client (ssClient) that provides CLI and Remote Desktop capabilities, complemented by a proprietary accelerated file-transfer technology (Global File Transfer/GFT), remote visualization via NVIDIA GPUs (rg3d), and a REST API (SCRAPI) for software-vendor integrations. The platform supports 500+ pre-installed and optimized software packages spanning CFD (OpenFOAM, ANSYS Fluent, STAR-CCM+, FDS), life sciences (R, CryoSPARC, EMAN2), research (LAMMPS, Quantum ESPRESSO, NAMD, GROMACS), and weather/environment (WRF, ADCIRC) workloads, with up to 512-620 CPU cores per job and a multi-petabyte parallel file system.

The revenue model is usage-based: standard pay-per-use at $0.14/core-hour, volume prepay tiers as low as $0.10/core-hour, academic prepaid packages from $0.075-$0.09/core-hour, and storage at $0.10/GB-month after a 100GB free allocation. New accounts receive 1,000 free core-hours and 100GB free storage; no minimums, monthly fees, or charges for login-server time or standard data transfer apply. Distribution is hybrid: product-led self-serve sign-up globally, direct sales (phone/email) for enterprise accounts, and an API channel for OEM integrations into third-party software. Academic and SFPE-affiliated fire-protection-engineering communities are addressed through discount programs and industry partnerships. Strategic technology partnerships with Siemens PLM (12+ years), Intel, and NVIDIA anchor the platform's toolchain compatibility.

Founded in 2000 in Orlando, Florida, Sabalcore is privately held and employee-owned with 1-10 employees, a single SOC-2-certified facility adjacent to the University of Central Florida, and no disclosed venture capital, private equity, or acquisition activity. The company has maintained continuous operation for 25 years with a long-tenured customer base spanning named enterprise logos (Lloyd's Register, Deutsche Telekom, Mars, Scidera) and academic clients across North America, Europe, and South America, but discloses no revenue figures, headcount growth, or active expansion metrics.

Name

Sabalcore Computing Inc.

Legal name

Sabalcore Computing Inc.

Website

https://sabalcore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sabalcore Computing Inc. is a privately held, employee-owned bare-metal HPC cloud provider founded in 2000 in Orlando, Florida, offering on-demand core-hour access to NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand-connected compute clusters for engineering, scientific, and research customers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

HPC Clusters & Scale-Out Compute (x86/ARM) (HDACAOAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

HCI & Integrated Systems (Compute + Storage) (HDABADAD), HPC Cooling, Power & Infrastructure (Liquid Cooling, Racks, Power Delivery) (HDACAOAI)

Keywords

• High performance computing
• Bare metal cloud
• HPC cloud services
• Engineering simulation cloud
• Scientific research computing

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. HPC Core-Hour Usage: Pay-per-use billing charged by the CPU core-hour. Core-hours are calculated as the number of cores used multiplied by wall-time. Rounded to the nearest second. No minimums, no monthly fees. Standard rate: $0.14/core-hour. Volume prepay rates as low as $0.10/core-hour.
2. Data Storage: 100GB of storage included free per month. Additional storage charged at $0.10/GB-month. Storage units defined as 'GB-month' in service terms.
3. Academic Prepaid Packages: Prepaid core-hour packages for academic institutions: $360 for 4,000 hours ($0.09/hour), $800 for 10,000 hours ($0.08/hour), $1,500 for 20,000 hours ($0.075/hour). Deposit required for account activation.
4. Enterprise NET 30 Terms: NET 30 payment terms available for accounts in good standing. Late charge of 5% applied to open balances over 30 days. Accounts auto-locked at 60 days past due.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Sabalcore provides fully managed, on-demand bare-metal High Performance Computing (HPC) cloud services delivered through a pay-per-core-hour pricing model. The infrastructure combines Intel Xeon processors with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand (up to 200 Gbps) and a direct-attached parallel file system, giving engineers and scientists physical-core compute without virtualization overhead. Customers access the platform through the proprietary ssClient (CLI and Remote Desktop), the SCRAPI REST API, or batch submission, running 500+ pre-installed scientific and engineering applications including OpenFOAM, ANSYS Fluent, Siemens STAR-CCM+, FDS, LAMMPS, GROMACS, CryoSPARC, WRF, and ADCIRC.

Product overview

Sabalcore Computing Inc. operates a pure-play bare-metal HPC cloud platform providing on-demand High Performance Computing services for engineering, scientific, and research communities. The core offering is the HPC Cloud Service accessed via the ssClient interface (offering both CLI and Remote Desktop capabilities), combined with a proprietary Global File Transfer (GFT) system. The platform supports over 500 pre-installed software applications across vertical solutions for CFD Engineering (OpenFOAM, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS, FDS), Weather and Environment (WRF, ADCIRC), Research (LAMMPS, GROMACS, NAMD), and Life Sciences (R, CryoSPARC). Pricing options include standard pay-per-use ($0.14/core-hour), volume prepay rates ($0.10/core-hour), and academic discounted packages ($0.075-0.09/core-hour). The company also offers SCRAPI, a REST API for software vendors to integrate applications with the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ssClient: Full-featured lightweight client for Sabalcore HPC service providing CLI, remote desktop, and file transfer capabilities
• GFT (Global File Transfer)
• rg3d

Products and services

• HPC Cloud Service (ssClient) Bare-metal, pay-per-use High Performance Computing cloud service providing on-demand access to compute clusters with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking, a parallel file system, and remote desktop / CLI interfaces for running engineering and scientific applications. Targets engineers, scientists, and academic researchers running CPU- and MPI-intensive parallel simulations.
• Academic HPC Program Discounted HPC cloud access for qualified academic users offering prepaid core-hour packages starting at $0.075/core-hour (4,000 to 20,000 hour packages) plus a free 1,000 core-hour evaluation block and 100 GB monthly free storage.
• Global File Transfer (GFT) Proprietary accelerated file transfer technology that moves TB-scale datasets to and from the Sabalcore cloud substantially faster than standard SCP or Filezilla, with auto-resume for partial transfers and optimization for geographically separated users.
• SCRAPI (Sabalcore API) CRUD-style REST API with JSON encoding and automatic OAUTH2 authentication that lets software vendors programmatically submit, manage, and monitor HPC jobs and transfer files through Sabalcore's platform.
• CFD Engineering Solutions Tailored HPC cloud configuration and pre-installed software stack (OpenFOAM, Siemens STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent, Fire Dynamic Simulator, COMSOL) for engineering firms running CFD, FEA, stress analysis, thermodynamics, and structural mechanics simulations.
• Weather and Environment Solutions HPC cloud configuration supporting the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, ADCIRC coastal and ocean circulation modeling, climate prediction, and transport / dispersion simulations for weather and environmental agencies.
• Research Solutions HPC cloud configuration and pre-installed software (LAMMPS, Quantum ESPRESSO, NAMD, GROMACS) for academic and corporate research organizations running molecular dynamics and scientific modeling workloads.
• Life Sciences Solutions HPC cloud configuration and pre-installed software (R for statistical analysis, CryoSPARC, EMAN2) for life sciences and biomedical research organizations running genomics and cryo-electron microscopy workloads.

Quantifiable outcome

• Jobs run in one-tenth the time compared to in-house compute clusters
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Siemens PLMcoreTechnology or IntegrationApproved Siemen's PLM Technology Partner supporting all Siemens PLM Simcenter products including STAR-CCM+. Sabalcore has been a Siemens Solution Partner for over 12 years, offering pre-installed Siemens CFD software with license tunnel support for customers.
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate 100 Partner Program member. Supports fire protection engineering community with specialized FDS and smoke modeling HPC services.
• Intel CorporationcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntel Xeon processors and Intel compilers used throughout Sabalcore's HPC infrastructure. Intel oneAPI and optimized MPI libraries integrated for maximum performance.
• NVIDIA CorporationcoreTechnology or IntegrationNVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand network platform providing ultra-low latency connectivity up to 200Gbps. NVIDIA GPUs powering remote visualization. NVIDIA/Mellanox Quantum InfiniBand fabrics are core to Sabalcore's HPC architecture.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• CoreWeave: GPU cloud provider with InfiniBand fabric and bare-metal offerings, increasingly used for tightly coupled simulation and VFX/Render workloads that overlap with traditional HPC.
• Lambda Labs: GPU cloud provider initially focused on deep learning, now extending into general scientific and HPC workloads with bare-metal H100/H200 clusters — emerging competitive overlap.
• UberCloud: Cloud marketplace and service provider focused on engineering simulation workloads, connecting ISVs and end users with HPC cloud capacity — overlapping customer base and use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud HPC: Hyperscaler offering HPC-optimized C2 instances and Cluster Tools for tightly coupled workloads, increasingly used for scientific computing and CFD customers.
• Microsoft Azure (Azure Batch / HBv-series): Hyperscaler with dedicated HPC VM series (HB, HC, HX) and InfiniBand networking, competing for the same tightly coupled simulation workloads across enterprise and academic buyers.
• AWS (EC2 HPC): Hyperscaler offering EC2 HPC instances (including bare-metal and Cluster Placement Groups with EFA fabric) targeting the same engineering, life-science, and research workloads as Sabalcore.

Direct peers

• Rescale: Cloud HPC platform offering pay-per-use access to engineering and scientific simulation workloads across multiple hardware providers. The closest direct competitor to Sabalcore's bare-metal, usage-based HPC model.
• Penguin Computing: Specialist HPC infrastructure provider offering both on-premise clusters and HPC cloud services (Frontera, Penguin Computing on Demand) targeting the same engineering and research buyer.
• Nimbix (now part of Ansys): High-performance computing cloud platform purpose-built for CAE and simulation workloads, originally a direct competitor before acquisition by Ansys; competes head-on for CFD/FEA customers.

Regional players

• R Systems (HPC services): IT services and HPC solutions provider serving engineering and research customers, with comparable pay-per-use and managed HPC offerings; smaller global footprint than Sabalcore.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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