| HP Cluster Platform Express comes straight to you, factory assembled and available with pre-installed software for cluster management, and ready for deployment. The extensive array of software development tools and applications featured in the Unified Cluster Portfolio are supported on Cluster Platform Express solutions, which adhere to the design and quality standards of HP Cluster Platforms. These clusters offer a choice of compute nodes, with HP ProLiant DL165 or BL465c Blade servers featuring Quadcore AMD Opteron processors, or HP ProLiant DL160 G6, BL2x220c or BL460c G6nodes, with multicore Intel Xeon processors. Larger nodes can be selected to use as control nodes, providing additional storage and network connectivity.
Software options include Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributions, as well as HP's message passing library, HP-MPI. Linux cluster management options include HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU) and Platform HPC with HP ICE-Linux. For Windows environments, HPC Server 2008 provides a complete HPC environment, with integrated scheduler, MPI, and cluster management.
Clusters for High Performance Computing can be simple, but deciding what to include can be complex. With HP Cluster Platforms, you don't need to be on your own. HP and its authorized resellers are available for advice on selecting components. |
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