A compute-focused cloud is a specialized subset of the general purpose OpenStack cloud architecture. Unlike the general purpose OpenStack architecture, which is built to host a wide variety of workloads and applications and does not heavily tax any particular computing aspect, a compute-focused cloud is built and designed specifically to support compute intensive workloads. As such, the design must be specifically tailored to support hosting compute intensive workloads. Compute intensive workloads may be CPU intensive, RAM intensive, or both. However, they are not typically storage intensive or network intensive. Compute-focused workloads may include the following use cases: High performance computing (HPC) Big data analytics using Hadoop or other distributed data stores Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Signal processing for network function virtualization (NFV) Based on the use case requirements, such clouds might need to provide additional services such as a virtual machine disk library, file or object storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, and network connectivity in the form of overlays or virtual local area networks (VLANs). A compute-focused OpenStack cloud will not typically use raw block storage services since the applications hosted on a compute-focused OpenStack cloud generally do not need persistent block storage.