HPCC Systems (High Performance Computing Cluster) is part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions and was formed to promote and sell the HPCC big data software. In June 2011, it announced the offering of the software under an open source dual license model.
HPCC Systems offers both a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Community Edition is free to download, includes the source code and is released under the Apache License 2.0. The Enterprise Edition is available under a paid commercial license and includes training, support, indemnification and additional modules. In November 2011, HPCC Systems announced the availability of its Thor Data Refinery Cluster on Amazon Web Services. In January 2012, HPCC Systems announced distributed machine learning algorithms, HPCC Systems is an alternative to Apache Hadoop and legacy mainframe computing technology.