# Blog

Tutorials, product updates, and insights from the Parallel Works team

## Spending on AI Is Easy. Governing It Is Hard.
Enterprises learned that buying GPUs is not the same as using them. The same lesson is arriving one layer up, in tokens, and the fix is governing every token where it is spent: in the request path.

Matthew Shaxted  
Jun 9, 2026  
[19 min](/content/blog/2026-ai-gateway/index.html)

## 2025, Year in Review with Parallel Works
Parallel Works entered 2025 celebrating ten years of advancing how organizations access and manage advanced computing. Since spinning out of Argonne National Laboratory in 2015, we have focused on tur...

Dec 19, 2025  
[6 min](/content/blog/2025-recap-blog/index.html)

## Powering AI at the Edge: Why Hybrid Cloud Is a Strategic Advantage
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being deployed at the edge, where data is generated and decisions must be made in real time. As organizations scale AI initiatives, they are discovering that ce...

Nov 1, 2025  
[3 min](/content/blog/powering-ai-at-the-edge/index.html)

## Powering AI at the Tactical Edge with Hybrid Multi-Cloud
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming defense operations, but deploying AI at the tactical edge presents unique challenges. A recent Cyber Defense Magazine article highlights how AI workloads a...

Oct 17, 2025  
[3 min](/content/blog/powering-ai-tactical-edge/index.html)

## Q1 2025 News and Changes
An overview of what changed at PW in quarter 1 of 2025

Olivia Shoup  
Apr 5, 2025  
[6 min](/content/blog/2025-q1-recap/index.html)

## The PW CLI
Introducing our new command-line interface (CLI)

Josh McMahan  
Sep 13, 2024  
[1 min](/content/blog/introducing-pw-cli/index.html)

## Flexible Disks
Parallel Works now supports a variety of disk types for your cloud clusters.

Yifan Lin  
Jun 13, 2024  
[3 min](/content/blog/introducing-flexible-disks/index.html)

## A Quick-Start Guide to Seamless JupyterLab and Dask Integration on the PW Platform
Parallel Works empowers users with our powerful workflows. With this guide, users will enjoy swift, hassle-free testing and utilization as they set up cloud compute resources, install Dask dependences, and run a sample Jupyter Notebook.

Alvaro Vidal Torreira  
Jan 12, 2024  
[4 min](/content/blog/dask-jupyterlab-guide/index.html)

## Q3 2023 News and Changes
An overview of what changed at PW in quarter 3 of 2023

Olivia Shoup  
Oct 6, 2023  
[6 min](/content/blog/2023-q3-recap/index.html)

## Flexible Cloud Storage Resources
Announcing our new feature to manage HPC storage

Eric Garcia  
May 29, 2023  
[2 min](/content/blog/new-flexible-storage-options/index.html)

## Matthew Shaxted of Parallel Works On Pushing the Boundaries of AI
Parallel Works CEO Matthew Shaxted discusses the company's journey, AI infrastructure, and what it takes to shape the future of AI in this Authority Magazine interview.

Matthew Shaxted  
Mar 26, 2026  
[7 min](/content/blog/authority-magazine-interview/index.html)

## How AI Moves from the Cloud to the Battlefield, and What Enterprises Can Learn
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being deployed in operational environments where speed, resilience, and autonomy are critical. In defense settings, this means moving AI from centralized system...

Nov 19, 2025  
[2 min](/content/blog/how-ai-moves-from-cloud-to-battlefield/index.html)

## Automating Cluster Benchmarking: Measure, Compare & Archive Compute Resources’ Performance
Challenges with Streamlining Multiple Cluster Job Schedulers

Stefan Gary  
Oct 30, 2025  
[3 min](/content/blog/automate-hpc-cluster-benchmarking-blog/index.html)

## Parallel Works Quarterly Updates
Q3 2025 Highlights from Parallel Works: AI, HPC, and Platform Innovation

Oct 2, 2025  
[7 min](/content/blog/quarterly-blog-october-2025/index.html)

## Q4 2024 News and Changes
An overview of what changed at PW in quarter 4 of 2024

Olivia Shoup  
Dec 30, 2024  
[5 min](/content/blog/2024-q4-recap/index.html)

## Next-Generation Cloud Clusters
Parallel Works releases next-generation clusters, introducing a major improvement for users' computing.

Quan Nguyen  
Jul 31, 2024  
[5 min](/content/blog/introducing-next-gen-cloud-clusters/index.html)

## Q1 2024 News & Changes
In January 2024, we were excited to present at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Continue reading for an overview of what changed at PW over the last month.

Olivia Shoup  
Apr 11, 2024  
[2 min](/content/blog/2024-q1-recap/index.html)

## Q4 2023 News & Changes
In November 2023, Parallel Works presented at AWS, Azure, and Google booths at Supercomputing 2023 as well as attended the Naval Postgraduate school's NATO Tech Day. Continue reading for an overview of what changed at PW in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Olivia Shoup  
Dec 5, 2023  
[3 min](/content/blog/2023-q4-recap/index.html)

## A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Workflows
A detailed guide to developing workflows that automate task execution across resources

Alvaro Vidal Torreira  
Jul 20, 2023  
[7 min](/content/blog/step-by-step-guide-to-developing-workflows/index.html)

## The GPU Productivity Gap: Why Buying GPUs Is Easy and Using Them Is Hard
How Parallel Works ACTIVATE closes the gap between GPU spend and production AI

Mar 3, 2026  
[8 min](/content/blog/gpu-productivity-gap/index.html)

## The Future of Defense Computing Is Hybrid
Defense organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize their computing environments while maintaining security, compliance, and operational readiness. Traditional, siloed infrastructure mode...

Nov 7, 2025  
[3 min](/content/blog/future-of-defense-computing-is-hybrid/index.html)

## High Performance Computing (HPC) 101
Multi-Cloud Computing Drives Digital Transformation

Matt Long  
Oct 24, 2025  
[11 min](/content/blog/hpc-101-blog/index.html)

## The Future of Computing is Hybrid
Multi-Cloud Computing Drives Digital Transformation

Sep 12, 2025  
[5 min](/content/blog/the-future-of-computing-is-hybrid/index.html)

## Q3 2024 News and Changes
An overview of what changed at PW in quarter 3 of 2024

Olivia Shoup  
Oct 4, 2024  
[4 min](/content/blog/2024-q3-recap/index.html)

## Q2 2024 News and Changes
An overview of what changed at PW in quarter 2 of 2024

Olivia Shoup  
Jul 1, 2024  
[4 min](/content/blog/2024-q2-recap/index.html)

## January 2024 News & Changes
We were excited to present at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Continue reading for an overview of what changed at PW over the last month.

Olivia Shoup  
Feb 8, 2024  
[2 min](/content/blog/2024-jan-recap/index.html)

## Converting Docker to Singularity for Multi-Node MPI Jobs
How to convert docker container images into singularity for use with Multi-Node MPI Jobs

Alvaro Vidal Torreira  
Oct 20, 2023  
[7 min](/content/blog/docker-to-singularity-mpi/index.html)

## Parallel Works v4
v4 is a foundational release of the Parallel Works platform, with a completely reimagined workflow framework, cluster filesystem flexibility, and several other improvements.

Michael McQuade  
Jul 2, 2023  
[7 min](/content/blog/parallel-works-v4/index.html)
