# Welcome ## Introduction to Strong Compute Our vision is to be the command and control for compute—what Kubernetes/VMware should be if they were great for AI. So we've built the Strong Compute Instant Super Computer (ISC). ## Instant Super Computer Strong Compute’s ISC is designed for efficient AI model training, packaged into the [ISC Control Plane](https://docs.strongcompute.com/getting-started/1.-access-strong-compute) (website) and [ISC Portal](https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/isc-commands-cli) (terminal). Access interactive [Container](https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers) environments, and launch [Experiments](https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments) for cluster-scale training. You bring the project, we bring the compute. ## Get started New users of Strong Compute can follow the [Guided Onboarding](https://docs.strongcompute.com/getting-started/in-app-onboarding) checklist in the ISC Control Plane, or follow the [Getting Started](https://docs.strongcompute.com/getting-started/1.-access-strong-compute) guide in these docs to get started. #### Academic research grantees Strong Compute research grantees also need to set up [VPN](https://docs.strongcompute.com/getting-started/vpn-sydney-cluster-only) access to the Strong Compute private cluster. ## Benefits of Strong Compute * **Multi-Cloud Backend:** Large range of compute nodes with H100, A100, A6000, L40, L4, and other GPU types in 1x, 4x, and 8x GPU shapes. * **Large cluster training:** Training clusters with up to 48 GPUs. * **Robust Checkpointing:** Easy to use tools for atomic checkpointing and assisted training resumption. * **Lightning Fast Dataset Transfer:** Achieves 30GB/second (target 100GB/sec) moving containers, datasets, and training artifacts on and off training clusters. * **Cost Control UI:** Helps tightly scope and manage expenses. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.strongcompute.com/welcome.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.