Applications
HPC Applications That Leverage vSMP Foundation High performance application environments have a number of things in common:
- Application performance is one of the highest priorities in system architecture;
- Large number of processor cores -- multiple processes happening in parallel (high performance clusters) or in common computational process (SMP) -- will produce faster application performance;
- Most HPC workloads are running or compiled for flexible open source or open standards-based operating environments including Linux and Unix;
- Many of the computational data set / file sizes are extremely large -- often well over 120GB in size and can often scale up to many terabytes;
The combination of industry standard x86 server systems and vSMP Foundation software creates an unparalleled high-performance, low cost solution for HPC environments in a variety of industries. By creating high performance supercomputers at as much as 1/10th the price of competing solutions, our customers receive the benefits of large CPU and memory resources without breaking the budget. Most importantly, vSMP Foundation aggregation platform can create x86 system configurations that simply don't exist otherwise. By leveraging Intel-based hardware and the vSMP Foundation virtualization for aggregation solution customers can create systems with over 8,000 cores and up to 64TB of memory. These Linux-based systems support off-the-shelf software with no need for recompilation or modifications to either the OS or the applications.
Targeted Applications
- Electronic Design Automation
- Computational Structural Mechanics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Life Sciences
- Energy Visualization
- Financial Modeling
- Weather Forecasting
- Mathematical Modeling
- Other