<s>
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
company	O
that	O
provides	O
software	O
for	O
orchestrating	O
computing	O
and	O
storage	O
resources	O
in	O
cloud	B-Architecture
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
flagship	O
product	O
is	O
CycleCloud	O
,	O
which	O
supports	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Compute	I-General_Concept
Engine	I-General_Concept
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
and	O
internal	O
infrastructure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CycleCloud	O
orchestration	O
suite	O
manages	O
the	O
provisioning	O
of	O
cloud	B-Architecture
infrastructure	O
,	O
orchestration	O
of	O
workflow	O
execution	O
and	O
job	O
queue	O
management	O
,	O
automated	O
and	O
efficient	O
data	O
placement	O
,	O
full	O
process	O
monitoring	O
and	O
logging	O
,	O
within	O
a	O
secure	O
process	O
flow	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2005	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
original	O
offerings	O
were	O
based	O
around	O
the	O
HTCondor	B-Operating_System
scheduler	O
and	O
focused	O
on	O
maximizing	O
the	O
effectiveness	O
of	O
internal	O
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
offered	O
support	O
for	O
HTCondor	B-Operating_System
as	O
well	O
as	O
CycleServer	O
,	O
which	O
provided	O
metascheduling	O
,	O
reporting	O
,	O
and	O
management	O
tools	O
for	O
HTCondor	B-Operating_System
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
advent	O
of	O
large	O
public	O
cloud	B-Architecture
offerings	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
expanded	O
its	O
tools	O
to	O
allow	O
customers	O
to	O
make	O
use	O
of	O
dynamically	O
provisioned	O
cloud	B-Architecture
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Key	O
technologies	O
developed	O
include	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
validate	O
that	O
resources	O
were	O
correctly	O
added	O
in	B-Architecture
the	I-Architecture
cloud	I-Architecture
(	O
patent	O
awarded	O
in	O
2015	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
easily	O
manage	O
data	O
placement	O
and	O
consistency	O
,	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
support	O
multiple	O
cloud	B-Architecture
providers	O
within	O
a	O
single	O
workflow	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
August	O
15	O
,	O
2017	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
announced	O
its	O
acquisition	O
of	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2011	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
announced	O
“	O
Tanuki	O
”	O
,	O
a	O
10,000	O
core	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
cluster	O
used	O
by	O
Genentech	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2011	O
,	O
a	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
HPC	O
cluster	O
called	O
Nekomata	O
(	O
Japanese	O
for	O
"	O
Monster	O
Cat	O
"	O
)	O
was	O
renting	O
out	O
at	O
$	O
1279/hour	O
,	O
offering	O
30,472	O
processor	O
cores	O
with	O
27TB	O
of	O
memory	O
and	O
2PB	O
of	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2012	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
,	O
working	O
in	O
collaboration	O
with	O
scientific	O
software-writing	O
company	O
Schrödinger	O
,	O
it	O
had	O
screened	O
21	O
million	O
compounds	O
in	O
less	O
than	O
three	O
hours	O
using	O
a	O
50,000	O
-core	O
cluster	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2013	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
,	O
working	O
in	O
collaboration	O
with	O
scientific	O
software-writing	O
company	O
Schrödinger	O
,	O
it	O
had	O
helped	O
Mark	O
Thompson	O
,	O
a	O
professor	O
of	O
chemistry	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Southern	O
California	O
,	O
sort	O
through	O
about	O
205,000	O
compounds	O
to	O
search	O
for	O
the	O
right	O
compound	O
to	O
build	O
a	O
new	O
generation	O
of	O
inexpensive	O
and	O
highly	O
efficient	O
solar	O
panels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2014	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
worked	O
with	O
a	O
researcher	O
at	O
HGST	O
to	O
run	O
a	O
hard	O
drive	O
simulation	O
workload	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
computation	O
would	O
have	O
taken	O
over	O
a	O
month	O
on	O
internal	O
resources	O
,	O
but	O
completed	O
in	O
7	O
hours	O
running	O
on	O
70,000	O
cores	O
in	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
at	O
a	O
cost	O
of	O
less	O
than	O
$	O
6,000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2015	O
,	O
Cycle	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
and	O
the	O
Broad	O
Institute	O
announced	O
a	O
50,000	O
core	O
cluster	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Compute	I-General_Concept
Engine	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
