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Customers
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SDSC Gordon Uses ScaleMP software
Gordon utilizes a unique architecture, designed by ScaleMP, where a supernode that aggregates 32 of Gordon's servers and two I/O servers into a single virtual cache so "it can be used without putting too much brain into using it". |
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SMU
"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." |
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Coventry University
"We are scientists, not IT experts. We need a system that works well with our software and frees up time to allow us to focus on what we consider to be the most demanding theoretical and modeling problems. We want the system to work flawlessly at a high level of performance so that we are unaware of it. Thanks to the vSMP Foundation virtualization-aggregation software, we have a very versatile system that performs well with a wide range of applications. By providing a single virtual system, the IT complexity is significantly reduced, and while having access to large shared memory for our most demanding larger simulations when needed." |
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R-Systems
"vSMP Foundation for Cloud provides us with unprecedented flexibility in our cloud infrastructure, which is incredibly valuable for the types of projects we are working on that often have very wide-ranging needs. Using traditional servers or virtualization we are only able to partition our physical systems to accommodate small workloads. Now, using vSMP Foundation for Cloud, we have the flexibility to dynamically aggregate those same servers to create private on-demand virtual SMP systems for demanding applications." |
Industry Analysts
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Data Mobility Group
"The ScaleMP technology based on commodity hardware allows users to benefit from the characteristics of SMPs such as simplicity of installation and management, as well as large memory, while leveraging the cost structure of low-end x86-systems. ScaleMP offers a great alternative to partners, system integrators and end-users, looking for a non-proprietary option that would combine the benefits of scale-up and scale-out architectures while preserving their existing investments. There is no need to rip out and replace here, but to add on what you already have to significantly increase the performance and even save on power and floor space." |
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Gabriel Consulting Group
"vSMP Foundation for SMP enables companies to deploy an SMP infrastructure on equipment they already own, without having to purchase more costly large systems. Users with a smaller scale deployment can use ScaleMP's new DC2 technology to create a large system image without having to buy an expensive InfiniBand switch saving a significant chunk of money." |
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IDC
"IDC research consistently shows that cluster complexity and limited bandwidth are crucial issues for many HPC users today. The ScaleMP virtual SMP solution, which is being expanded to as much as 128 cores and 4 terabytes of shared memory, aims to alleviate these issues." |
Partners & Resellers
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Padova Technologies
"Our customers need high-end large memory symmetric multiprocessing system capabilities without the historically high costs and proprietary design usually associated with these types of solutions. With ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation software aggregation solution, our customers can leverage the latest processor technologies to deliver a single cost-effective logical virtual SMP system providing terabytes of memory, without sacrificing performance." |
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Cray
"The ScaleMP vSMP Foundation virtualization software is an excellent fit for the Cray CX1, which was designed specifically to harness HPC for individuals and departmental workgroups. By creating a single shared memory virtual system, the joint solution can now support large memory and large core count workloads in addition to parallel workloads, while simplifying the installation and management of the system." |
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Datatrend Technologies
"Today, a majority of high-performance computing implementations are based on standard off-the-shelf x86 server clusters interconnected with high speed networking technologies. However, many HPC customers still require large memory systems to run threaded, OpenMP or legacy applications. By combining ScaleMP's leading-edge virtualization vSMP Foundation software with our long-term leadership in IBM hardware integration and implementation, we offer customers superior performance at prices significantly lower than traditional SMPs," |
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Adaptive Computing
"In today's environment, HPC, data center or cloud computing facilities must support a diverse variety of workloads and constantly changing resource requirements. Critical to this is the ability to adapt the resources themselves to needs of each individual workload. Only by working with best-of-breed partners like ScaleMP can we deliver the breadth of solutions that enable a pool of inexpensive industry-standard resources to be scaled out or scaled up on demand with optimized compute, network and operating system configurations. The ability of these combined technologies to create on-demand fully functional compute environments that in a literal sense do not physically exist is truly impressive." |
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Mellanox
"ScaleMP is leveraging InfiniBand to reduce the total cost of ownership for clustered infrastructures. We are working closely with ScaleMP to simplify High-Performance Computing environments by reducing the number of managed entities in the datacenter." |
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Supermicro
"Supermicro teamed with ScaleMP to introduce new, incredibly cost-effective four-socket platforms for end-user organizations. With our 1U Twin solution and vSMP Foundation Standalone from ScaleMP, customers benefit from high density, high performance, high power-efficiency and lower price points compared to traditional four-socket platforms available on the market today." |
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IBM
"With our innovative iDataPlex system design, customers realize significant savings on power and cooling, as well as space. vSMP Foundation Standalone in conjunction with the new iDataPlex DX360 high performance server based on the latest in quad-core processing capabilities from Intel, doubles the memory size available for processing and reduces the number of operating systems installed per rack by 50 percent." |
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Dell
"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." |
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Hewlett-Packard
"High-performance computing customers with massive workloads can increase business productivity and minimize costs by combining multiple server workloads into a single virtual system. The HP BladeSystem platform coupled with the ScaleMP vSMP Foundation software allows customers to more easily manage large-memory configurations on an affordable unified system." |
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Intel
"ScaleMP takes advantage of the many innovations and performance enhancements built into the Nehalem processor family to deliver significant performance improvements. That improvement in performance combined with the capability of the vSMP Foundation 2.0 to aggregate up to 32 upcoming Intel Nehalem processors means significant benefits for HPC customers who have large compute and memory workloads." |
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Emulex
"Emulex LightPulse HBAs combined with vSMP Foundation software provides joint customers with secure, reliable, enterprise class connectivity within the SAN. We are working closely with ScaleMP to provide better performance and expanded connectivity options for HPC and virtualized environments." |
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Novell
"SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 is an ideal platform for the business realities of today's heterogeneous environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 fully supports the evolution of customers??? data centers, as they build and manage critical workloads in both physical and virtual environments, and eventually the cloud. The flexibility and reliability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 in conjunction with vSMP Foundation allows customers to reduce cost, manage complexity and mitigate risk in these tough economic times." |
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Appro
"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." |
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Hewlett-Packard
"Customers demand scalable solutions that deliver superior performance and maximize return on technology investment. The new HP BL280c G6 server blade combined with the vSMP Foundation offers customers configuration flexibility and scalability." |
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Intel
"Using the computational power of Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series, virtual SMP solutions based on ScaleMP technology deliver high performance dedicated SMP solutions at dramatically lower cost than comparable offerings. ScaleMP offers significant compute and memory bandwidth performance advantages, making it a powerful solution for the entry-level HPC market using servers based on Intel architecture." |