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"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."
-- Ian Miller, senior vice president of the productivity solutions group and marketing at Cray

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vSMP Foundation for SMP

The vSMP Foundation for SMP™ solution targets customers who need large-scale compute, memory and I/O performance they've traditionally received from proprietary SMP's, but at a significantly lower cost than the proprietary options. It is targeted at applications that benefit from large memory or high core-count such as simulation, analytics and modeling. vSMP Foundation for SMP enables the aggregation of up to 16 servers into a single virtual machine, with up to 8,192 cores and 64TB or main memory. It supports the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem - 55xx series) and large memory as well as offering high availability features such as partitioning and redundant InfiniBand backplane.

vSMP Foundation for SMP uses blade or rack-mounted systems and InfiniBand to offer tremendous price/performance advantages for the high-performance computing market. In essence, it provides a unique way to leverage entry-level systems to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). vSMP Foundation for SMP delivers the operational simplicity of traditional shared-memory systems while maintaining the acquisition cost associated with x86 clusters. It is ideal for any application that benefits from large memory, high core-count coupled with shared memory.

For simplified installation, the software is delivered on vSMP Foundation Devices (an off-the-shelf flash memory devices such as USB memory stick or Compact Flash). vSMP Foundation is tuned for Intel Xeon (dual- and quad-core) processors and available for selected platforms tuned and optimized for virtualization for aggregation Support Matrix.

For cloud infrastructure, see our new network bootable vSMP Foundation for Cloud.

Key messages:

  • Use vSMP Foundation for SMP and your existing x86 infrastructure to create large CPU and memory systems for your high performance workloads at a fraction of the price of proprietary systems;
  • No sacrifice in performance, management or application compatibility;
  • Scale higher – up to 64TB of memory, up to 8,192 cores – and leverage higher x86 performance and lower costs;

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