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High Performance Computing (HPC) vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

High Performance Computing ...
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat OpenShift
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (3rd), Container Management (4th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of High Performance Computing (HPC) is 3.8%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 8.3%, up from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift8.3%
High Performance Computing (HPC)3.8%
Other87.9%
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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Global Datacenter Infrastructure and HPC Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Helps to run simulations and create prototypes which reduces the costs
HPC's neutral configuration is not difficult. The tool's deployment depends on your understanding of its architecture and use cases. I rate it a three out of five. A regular cluster will take two weeks to set up. OEMs helped us with the physical hardware installation. Once the cluster was running, our team configured the software and networks.
AA
Operation Director at Zaintech
Platform has transformed our cloud into a secure, unified home for diverse modern applications
One of the best features of Red Hat OpenShift is that it has the catalog, the application catalog, and the operator hub, which allows us to deploy things easily and straightforward without going into a lot of hassles. This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools. Red Hat OpenShift also provides virtualization capabilities, and I am currently working with Zain to make a project where we will convert F5 appliances to virtual machines and to manage them through Red Hat virtualization, OVE. Red Hat OpenShift is a unique platform because it provides the features for both worlds, containerization, and VMs at the same time, requiring you to learn one skillset in order to manage all of this at the same time. In the beginning, our cloud depended only on virtual machines, so I introduced this to our management to start to work with microservices and with containerization. This was adapted in our cloud, providing us the capability to sell more of these features and to reduce the hardware requirement by about thirty percent, following the trends of using containerization for all modern applications. In addition, it reduced the time to develop and to deploy a new application; all we need is using Jenkins for CI/CD. Once we commit any code, it gets triggered, and it will implement the new container in a very flexible and easy way, within seconds. This decreased the time to market and increased agility, allowing us to capture new opportunities very fast.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Our customers can publish scientific reports in prestigious magazines. HPC offers strong computing capabilities."
"HPC speeds up delivery time and reduces costs. It comes with the capability and flexibility to understand how engineering products work. You can understand the outcome without spending time and money."
"Red Hat OpenShift has positively impacted my organization primarily through observability, as for us, application uptime matters a lot when providing public-facing products consumed by customers, and hence, we're using that to keep refining our application and products through observability metrics and keeping pace with market trends, as we promised 99.99% uptime to our customers, and the observability in Red Hat OpenShift is really helping us a lot with that."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the great customer service and the ability for our team to get assistance when we need it."
"This solution helps us to account for peak seasons involving higher demand than usual. It also gives us confidence in the security of our overall systems."
"Save money and get OpenShift."
"The product's initial setup is very easy, especially compared to AWS."
"The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the containers."
"The concept of containers and scaling on demand is a feature I appreciate the most about Red Hat OpenShift."
"Red Hat OpenShift offers very comprehensive security standards, everything is designed based on a zero-trust security framework, and I appreciate that about it."
 

Cons

"The solution is expensive."
"There was a buzz around the integration of quantum computing and HPC. However, I don't see a real-life use case for it."
"There are still some issues with it. I have several cases at Red Hat that need to be resolved."
"The monitoring part could be better to monitor the performance."
"My team has found some bugs in OpenShift due to continuous integration, and this is an area for improvement in the platform. RedHat should fix the bugs. Another area for improvement in OpenShift is that upgrading clusters can be challenging, resulting in downtime. Application support also needs improvement in OpenShift because the platform doesn't support all applications in the cloud. I'd like upgraded storage in the next release of OpenShift, especially when I need to do a DR exercise. It would also be good if the platform allows mirroring with another cluster, or more portability in terms of moving applications to another cluster."
"OpenShift's storage management could be better."
"They could work on the pricing model, making it more flexible and possibly lower."
"Needs work on volume handling (although this is already better with GlusterFS). Security (SSSD) would also be an improvement."
"While Red Hat OpenShift is stable, monitoring and reporting capabilities need improvement. Integration with tools like Grafana and Prometheus is necessary for capturing logs, and manually managing these aspects is time-consuming."
"I want easier node management and more user-friendly scripts for installing master and worker nodes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We use the license-free version of Red Hat Openshift but we pay for the support."
"Pricing of OpenShift depends on the number of nodes and who is hosting it."
"The cost is quite high."
"The product's support is expensive. I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The product’s pricing is expensive."
"Depending on the extent of the product use, licenses are available for a range of time periods, and are renewable at the end of the period."
"It's important to start small because the solution is scalable. We can build our cluster and look at the bundle option, not the external subscriptions. Talking to the people at Red Hat can save us money."
"The solution is cost-effective."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
9%
University
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise58
 

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