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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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"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."
-- Michael Jackson, president of Adaptive Computing

Solutions > IT Solutions > SMP Replacement

Cost-effective, modular software-based SMP solution
The alternative to proprietary systems

Proprietary high-core-count, large-memory systems are expensive and often underutilized. vSMP Foundation™ delivers a software-based SMP with record-breaking performance at the fraction of the cost of proprietary systems – and no vendor lock in.

vSMP Foundation for SMPUsing the Versatile SMP™ (vSMP) architecture, this landmark solution aggregates up to 128 servers into a single virtual x86 system, with up to 16,384 cores and 64 TB or main memory. It supports the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors (56xx, 65xx, 75xx series,E7-x8xx)  as well as AMD Opteron 6100 and 6200 series, and large memory as well as offering high-availability features such as partitioning and a redundant InfiniBand backplane.

Features

  • Highest CPU capacity: Enables up to 16,384 CPUs in a single shared-memory system.
  • Largest memory footprint: Enables up to 64 TB RAM.
  • High speed I/O: Leverages parallel storage controller for data-intensive workloads.
  • Unparalleled RAS characteristics:
    • Redundant Infiniband connectivity;
    • Optional "partitioning" to create completely isolated OS instances;
    • Fault isolation and automatic system recovery.

Benefits

  • Performance: outperforms traditional SMP systems.
  • Investment protection: supports mixed components with different processor speeds, varied memory amounts or dissimilar I/O devices.
  • SMP for the cost of a cluster: leverages industry standard x86 servers for up to 5x CAPEX savings over proprietary solutions.
  • Platform-neutral: available for 2, 4 or 8 socket; rack mount or blade form factor.
  • Modular: future-proof architecture provides “pay-as-you-grow” flexibility.

vSMP Foundation for SMP is delivered on an easy-to-install USB memory stick or on Compact Flash devices.

Contact us for more information: sales@ScaleMP.com

Case study

Read how Bielefeld University uses vSMP Foundation for SMP to replace proprietary systems.

See ScaleMP performance data for RWTH Aachen-Polytechnic University

Which vSMP Foundation product is right for you?

Do you have or want a cluster, but are concerned about complex management?
vSMP Foundation for Cluster virtualizes clusters into one, uncluttered system.

Do you want to shape your system to your workload, without system limitations?
vSMP Foundation for Cloud delivers on-demand SMP.