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"When I took this position, I had the option of placing the startup capital into hardware or something new. I decided to try something new and selected ScaleMP for its innovative approach to SMP clusters and for what I believed it would enable us to do. ScaleMP has allowed us to stretch our budget and give our lab the HPC capabilities we require. It has also served as an excellent pilot project so that other departments at the university can see first-hand how beneficial the scalable performance metrics can be to our research and future supercomputer."
-- Dr. Elfi Kraka, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University

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vSMP Foundation for Cluster

The vSMP Foundation for Cluster™ solution provides a simplified compute architecture for high-performance clusters - it hides the InfiniBand fabric, offers built-in high-performance storage as a cluster-filesystem replacement and reduces the number of operating systems to one, making it much easier to administer. This solution is ideally suited for smaller compute implementations in which management tools and skills may not be readily available.

vSMP Foundation for Cluster enables the aggregation of up to 128 servers into a single virtual machine with up to 128 cores and 512GB of RAM – maximum of 32GB per node. vSMP Foundation for Cluster supports Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) and 5600 (Westmere) processors with speeds no greater than 2.4GHz. If customers have clusters needs that exceed 512GB of memory or nodes with Xeon processor speeds exceeding 2.4GHz it is recommended that they purchase vSMP Foundation for SMP instead of the Cluster variant.

The target customers for the Cluster product are those with initial high performance cluster implementations who are concerned with the complexity of creation and management of the cluster environment.

Key messages:

  • Simplified install and management of high performance clusters;
    • Eliminates multiple nodes, operating systems to one;
    • Eliminates the need for separate cluster-filesystem,
  • Stronger entry-level value proposition – scale up growth opportunities with no additional overhead.

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