Workstations, HPC servers & cluster nodes – Hewlett-Packard
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses
Why HP?
- HP is the market leader in High Performance Computing, HPC.
- HP is the market leader in Workstations.
- HP offers the broadest spectrum of HPC-solutions, spanning workgroup computing, enterprise computing to supercomputing. From blades and departmental servers, to systems designed for the engineering enterprise and supercomputing centres, the HP portfolio provides leading performance, solutions support and investment protection.
- HP offers a unique delivery model with factory integration and pre-staging of complete clusters from the HP factory.
- HP has the broadest offerings for graphics intense workloads.
HPC Storage – Panasas
Panasas sells completely integrated software/hardware storage systems and related services. The Panasas Parallel Storage Cluster is designed for engineering and scientific customers using clusters that demand a highly scalable, yet easily manageable storage network
Why Panasas?
- Record-setting performance: up to 7X random I/O performance and 30X data throughput relative to alternative NFS servers.
- Seamless Scalability from Terabyte to Petabyte scale: Storage capacity can be quickly and easily added and configured in less than 30 minutes. As capacity is added system performance scales linearly.
- Low Total Cost of Ownership: Easy to use appliance-like management of a virtually boundless system.
- Data Availability: Breakthrough ActiveScale Operating Environment for Predictive Self Management and Object-based RAID maximizes system and data availability.
HPC Networks – Voltaire
Voltaire provides server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing within the data centre. Voltaire’s fully integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the highest performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. easily manageable storage network.
Why Voltaire?
- Voltaire is the market leader in InfiniBand.
- Voltaire InfiniBand Solutions for both Windows and Linux environents.
- Voltaire provides the ost cost efficient multi fabric solution for connecting for example HPC storage systems direct to a Cluster InfinBand network.
- State of the art software for fabric managment.
Scheduling & Management for Clusters & Grids – Cluster Resources
Incorporated in 2001, Cluster Resources, Inc. is a leading provider of workload and resource management software and services for cluster, grid and utility-based computing environments. Cluster Resources draws on more than a decade of industry experience to provide market defining products and services to thousands of customers. Clients include many of the largest and most complex cluster and grid sites in the world. Top commercial, government & academic sites have licensed Moab® to maximize performance and value, ease management burden and create competitive technical advantages for themselves.
Why Moab?
- Integrate/Unify management across diverse resources and environments in a cluster
- Linux/Windows hybrid clusters
- Control/Share resource usage between users, groups and projects
- Simplify use, access and control for both users and administrators
- Scalable architecture that is grid ready, compatible and extensible
- Automate tasks and processes to streamline job turnaround and reduce administrative burden