HP has announced the availability of new enhancements to its high-performance computing portfolio.
The HP Unified Cluster Portfolio now includes a certified original equipment manufacturer version of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 and a new HP Cluster Management Utility option. Additionally available is HP Message Passing Interface on Windows CCS.
The enhancements are part of HP's strategy to deliver industry-standard high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to customers. HP has led this market for the past three years; through the first half of 2006, HP held the No. 1 revenue share of 33 percent, according to research firm IDC.
The certified OEM version of Windows CCS is fully integrated and supports HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem solutions. It comes installed and tested on HP Cluster Platform and Cluster Platform Express configurations.
Windows CCS is designed specifically to make HPC clusters easier to deploy, manage and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools, allowing scientists and engineers to focus on science rather than IT. HP customers currently using Windows CCS include Queen's University of Belfast, the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute and Boeing.
HP enhancements to CCS include custom installation scripts and documentation that greatly streamline deployment. Optional HP Message Passing Interface and Voltaire InfiniBand drivers offer increased scalability and performance in applications that require high-speed, low-latency communications. Using HP's custom installation kit for Windows CCS, a customer can realistically expect to have a 64-node cluster deployed and up and running within two hours.
Broad application support for Windows CCS includes major CAE applications, as well as key applications and tools for reservoir engineering, seismic data processing, workload scheduling and HPC software development. These applications are: gridMathematica 2.0 from Wolfram, LS-DYNA from LSTC, STAR-CD from CD-adapco, ESI PAM-CRASH from ESI Group, Radioss from Mecalog, ABAQUS from ABAQUS, Inc., ANSYS 11 and FLUENT 6.3 from ANSYS, Inc., MD NASTRAN from MSC Software, I iNquiry from The BioTeam, LSF from Platform Computing, and MATLAB and the Distributing Computing tools from The MathWorks. |
