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"ScaleMP's ability to aggregate multiple platforms into a single virtual system provides customers with a unified, systemic approach to compute- and memory-intensive workloads, deriving the benefits of both clustered and SMP environments, in a tightly integrated solution. Our ability to deliver modular, easy-to-manage systems in tightly integrated packaging also addresses growing customer challenges such as space limitations and power consumption while maintaining up to 70 percent price/performance advantages delivered through blade-based architectures," added Carroll. "In addition to the sheer performance advantages of these architectures, customers can also realize a decrease in their total power consumption, by as much as 25 percent, because you now have a solution specifically designed to reduce the overall power-draw."
-- Tim Carroll, Dell's HPC business development manager

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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 16 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) 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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