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Ronin is a self-service cloud platform purpose-built for research computing: it puts a simple, beautiful web interface over AWS so that researchers can launch, manage, and budget their own compute, from single workstations to auto-scaling HPC clusters, without needing cloud engineering skills.
Ronin's USP is democratised cloud HPC with cost control. Researchers select from curated "machine" blueprints, launch auto-scaling SLURM clusters in minutes, and pause or resize resources on demand. Critically for institutions, Ronin bakes in the governance cloud famously lacks: per-project budgets, real-time spend tracking, automatic alerts and shutdowns, and chargeback visibility. IT teams retain central guardrails while researchers get autonomy, resolving the classic tension in research computing. It's a natural complement to OCF-built on-premises systems, providing burst capacity and specialised instance access (e.g. very large memory, latest GPUs) when local resources are full.
Ronin simplifies research data workflows on cloud object storage and shared file systems, with lifecycle controls that keep storage spend as governed as compute.
Ronin lets AI researchers self-serve the exact GPU instances they need for training experiments, for exactly as long as needed, within budget envelopes. This is ideal for teaching, prototyping, and overflow from on-prem GPU clusters.