Scientific software often has to meet more than just scientific needs. Whether you're part of an academic lab, a small startup, or a large enterprise, your organization likely has internal rules set by legal, IT, or security teams about how data can be stored, accessed, and shared. These policies can impact which kinds of software deployments your team is allowed to use.
At Rowan, we offer multiple deployment options to meet organizations where they are, ranging from our default multi-tenant cloud platform to enterprise-grade deployments tailored to meet the strictest requirements.
This guide walks through the different ways companies can work with Rowan's platform and team. Whether you're looking for immediate access with minimal setup or need to run everything inside your company's private cloud, we can help you find the right fit.
Rowan's default and most popular offering is our multi-tenant deployment. In this model, all users share a common infrastructure and database, with strong application-level safeguards to ensure that each user's data remains securely isolated and private.
This architecture is widely used by most major tech companies—for example, Google, Meta, and others rely on multi-tenant systems to serve millions of users securely and efficiently. It's a proven model that balances performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
This approach allows us to offer immediate access to Rowan's full suite of scientific features—no sales calls, no provisioning delays, just a streamlined signup and usage experience. It's ideal for individuals and small teams who want to start running advanced computational chemistry workflows without worrying about infrastructure.
Our multi-tenant platform is built for scale and performance, with shared compute resources that dynamically allocate capacity as needed. This enables fast, cost-effective scientific computation while minimizing operational burden on our users.
Multi-tenant deployment is a great fit for:
Although we're confident about the security of our main multi-tenant deployment, IT and legal departments sometimes want heightened security guarantees and dedicated resources. Our first choice in these scenarios is a single-tenant deployment. In a single-tenant deployment, we build and host a separate instance of the Rowan platform for your company—so the database and servers aren't shared with any other users (your company is the only tenant).
Our single-tenant deployment option is built to give companies control over resource specifications, compliance, and security polices while benefiting from Rowan's infrastructure management and maintenance. Our team works with major cloud providers like AWS to find hardware that's performant and cost-effective for computational chemistry, freeing our users up to focus on their science.
Single-tenant deployment is best for:
Larger companies often want even tighter control over their data and security than a single-tenant deployment can provide. In these cases, we can do a virtual-private-cloud (VPC) deployment, where we deploy a version of Rowan into a given company's private cloud-compute infrastructure. The details of this process depend on exactly what computational resources a given company has; we can work with internal IT teams to find a good solution.
This is inevitably more complex than a single-tenant deployment, but gives customers maximum flexibility and control over data residency, network configuration, and internal access policies. Our engineering team collaborates directly with your IT and security teams to tailor the deployment to your environment, ensuring compatibility with your existing systems and requirements.
Virtual-private-cloud (VPC) deployments are best for:
If what you want to predict or compute isn't yet in Rowan's portfolio of workflows, we would love to hear about it and be a part of building a solution. We intentionally maintain an applied research focus and are eager to bridge the gap between basic research capabilities and corporate R&D needs.