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vSMP Foundation™ Advanced Platform extends the capabilities of vSMP Foundation, providing enhanced capabilities over the traditional SMP systems available with vSMP Foundation.
vSMP Foundation Advanced Platform offers:
- On-demand SMP – use the same cluster nodes to create a virtual SMP, providing a unified architecture for all their supercomputing needs. Customers deploying large-scale clusters can now have on-demand SMPs provisioned by traditional provisioning systems such as Bright Cluster Manager, Insight CMU, ROCKS, XCAT, and others. On-demand SMP provides greater utilization by reusing the same systems for both distributed and shared-memory workloads.
- Partitioning – create multiple smaller, isolated and independent SMP systems from a larger one, enabling different groups to work on a dedicated resource rather than share the same SMP machine and interfere with one another. vSMP Foundation Advanced Platform also provides tools to resize system partitions to accommodate a customer's changing needs.
- Support for very large SMPs – get greater system scalability, enabling creation of Very Large Virtual Machine (VLVM) from over 32 systems.
- Parallel InfiniBand performance – improve performance for your most demanding applications, by using multiple HCAs in parallel. This unique capability removes the need for distributed application awareness with multi-rail InfiniBand. You can also design virtual SMPs to deliver the needed performance based on the number of cores in the system and application requirements. vSMP Foundation Advanced Platform supports up to 4 parallel InfiniBand links, providing up to 224Gbps per node using InfiniBand FDR (56Gps).
vSMP Foundation Advanced Platform is priced at $800 per socket.
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