Sovereign research infrastructure for UK universities
One platform for every workload. Elastic capacity when deadlines hit.
The cloud, built for institutional research
One platform for every research workload
Bring fragmented research compute into one sovereign platform.
Civo provides cloud infrastructure for UK universities and research institutes running mixed HPC, AI, and regulated research workloads.
Unify on-premise, cloud, and departmental GPU resources under one control plane. Scale elastically through submission cycles. Give every research community its preferred tooling, with no compromise on the workflows researchers already depend on.
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Removing the barriers to research
Consolidation, elasticity, and tooling that fits
Research IT teams aren't buying GPU specs. They're trying to solve three persistent problems that fragmented infrastructure can't fix on its own.
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Consolidation across fragmented compute
Bring on-premise HPC, public cloud, departmental GPU servers, and idle institutional kit into one research cluster. Move workloads to where capacity is, retire old kit without disrupting research, and add new hardware as it arrives.
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Elasticity for the moments that matter
Submission cycles, grant deadlines, and REF rhythms create surges that fixed infrastructure can't absorb, exactly when national resources are oversubscribed. Civo provides elastic capacity to ride the wave without queueing or fighting for allocation.
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Tool choice for every research community
Kubernetes for AI teams. SLURM (running on Kubernetes through Slinky) for HPC researchers. Direct instance access for everyone in between. Three coherent paths into the same platform, so no research group has to compromise on the tooling it prefers.
Build the research infrastructure your institution actually needs
Sovereign cloud and SLURM-ready compute are ready to deploy. Talk to our team to map your estate and design what fits.
Next-gen NVIDIA GPUs for every workload
Get your hands on the latest NVIDIA GPU
The full NVIDIA portfolio for research, from a partitioned A100 for a notebook to multi-node B300 Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin for serious training.
Sized to the work, shared where it makes sense, and available across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises appliance.
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Innovations
"Civo gives us the flexibility and performance we need to train our AI models at scale... a powerful example of how secure, sovereign infrastructure can enable positive change in healthcare."
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Frequently asked questions
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No. HPC researchers keep SLURM. AI teams get Kubernetes. Anyone who just wants direct SSH access to a GPU instance can have that. Three paths, one platform, no forced migration.