Compute focused A compute-focused cloud is a specialized subset of the general purpose OpenStack cloud architecture. Unlike the general purpose OpenStack architecture, which hosts a wide variety of workloads and applications and does not heavily tax any particular computing aspect, a compute-focused cloud specifically supports compute intensive workloads. Compute intensive workloads may be CPU intensive, RAM intensive, or both; 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, or network connectivity in the form of overlays or virtual local area networks (VLANs). A compute-focused OpenStack cloud does not typically use raw block storage services as it does not generally host applications that require persistent block storage.