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"The innovative GreenBlade System is flexible, easy to manage and delivers outstanding performance in a modular solution building block that can be tailored for a range of processing, networking, storage or I/O needs. By combining the Appro GreenBlade System with ScaleMP???s innovative vSMP Foundation, we are able to aggregate multiple gB222X blades into a single shared memory virtual system that can support large memory and large core count workloads in addition to parallel workloads, while simplifying the installation and management of the system."
-- John Lee, VP of Advanced Technology Solutions for Appro

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Which vSMP Foundation is right for you?

vSMP Foundation
for SMP

vSMP Foundation
for Cluster

vSMP Foundation
for Cloud

Node Specifications
Max. CPUs1 per Node 128 128 128
Max. CPU1 Speed (Intel) Unlimited 2.4 GHz Unlimited
Memory (GB) per Node (Min. / Max) 4 / 1024 4 / 32 4 / 1024
VM Specifications
Nodes per VM (Min. / Max) 2 / 128 8 / 16 2 / 128
Max. CPUs1 per VM 255 255 255
Max. Memory (TB) per VM 64 0.5 64
Installation Media Flash drive8 Flash drive8 Network
VM Features
Fault Tolerant2 Support Yes Yes Yes
Backplane Redundancy3 Support Yes - -
Backplane Load Balancing4 Support Yes - -
Partitioning5 Support Yes Yes -
Direct Connect6 Support Yes - -
Additional Software
vSMP Productivity Pack7 Included Included Included
Profiler Included - Included

 

Notes:

  • CPUs1: Represented by a processor core or a logical processor.
  • Fault Tolerant2: Automatic restart of the VM upon node failure, isolating the failed node.
  • Backplane Redundancy3: Use of 2 parallel connection to one or two InfiniBand switches (single HCA).
  • Backplane Load Balancing (BLB)4: Use up to 4 HCAs in parallel for increased VM bandwidth (up to 160 Gbps per node). BLB also provides Backplane Redundancy.
  • Partitioning5: Split of a VM to multiple smaller VMs. Each VM should have atleast 2 nodes.
  • Direct Connect6: Connecting up to 4 nodes without InfiniBand switch (back-to-back).
  • vSMP Productivity Pack7: Automatic tool for OS tunning and installation of essentials for HPC operation environments. Available for RHEL and CentOS only.
  • Flash drive8: Media loaded with vSMP Foundation software provided by ScaleMP. Available in USB, CompactFlash or SD card format.
  • Some capabilities depends on delivery schedule of vSMP Foundation 3.0.