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ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation enables you to aggregate commodity hardware (rack or blade based) into a large SMP capable of running any standard X86 Linux distributions.
ScaleMP uses standard virtualization techniques to aggregate separate physical system into a large virtual SMP system. A system running vSMP Foundation 3.0 can support up to 8,192 cores and up to 64 TB of RAM.
ScaleMP has been working with the Linux community since 2004, contributing to improving the Linux Kernel to support large NUMA systems. As a result one can use today any standard x86 Linux Kernel above 2.6.16; with the right configuration options, they can achieve excellent performance.
ScaleMP has over 200 deployments/customers worldwide running a variety of distributions, such as: RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, Debian, FedoraCore, OpenSUSE. ScaleMP tests and certifies many Linux distributions. For a formal list of Linux distributions that ScaleMP supports, see http://www.scalemp.com/spec.
With such a system, one can run any x86 Linux code unchanged, while being able to leverage all the aggregated compute resources (processor cores, memory, NICs, and hard drives). From an operating system and application perspective, vSMP Foundation's aggregation of hardware as a single virtual system (SMP) is completely transparent. As a result, end-users manage a single OS instance.
ScaleMP's customers have seen performance soar for more than 50 commercial and open-source HPC applications, as well as dozens of inhouse-developed programs. Please see our extensive list of HPC applications and performance: http://www.scalemp.com/performance