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Platform Computing took the wraps off Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) at this week's Intel Developer Forum.
Platform said the modular, hybrid stack integrates open source and commercial software into a single consistent cluster operating environment. Platform OCS is a pre-integrated, vendor-certified software stack that eliminates the costs of development, sales and support caused by inconsistent software development and certification in Linux clusters, the company said.
Intel, Dell and Platform will demonstrate the stack at this week's IDF on a number of off-the-shelf applications, including Fluent and LS-DYNA.
"Platform has worked closely with Dell and Intel to create a reference platform which simplifies cluster development not only for ISVs, but for HPC users as well," stated Gary Tyreman, vice president of Platform's Open Cluster Group. "Customers get the support they expect from a commercial vendor and benefit from the unique innovation that is symbolic of open source."
"We believe Platform Computing is addressing a key industry need by providing an approach to simplify the growing use of clustered Linux computing systems," said Bill Magro, Intel's director of Cluster Software and Technologies.
Dell also made news this week by working with the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) to help create a powerful new supercomputing grid. It will include six Dell server clusters packing 30 teraflops of computing power, or the ability to perform 30 trillion operations per second.
The system will be used to perform hurricane tracking and storm surge modeling with much greater speed and accuracy, among other uses.
LONI is a fiber optics network connecting supercomputers at Louisiana's six major research universities. Each LONI member campus will host a 132-node supercomputing cluster made up of Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers.
In other news, Voltaire unveiled software for managing and automating dynamic grid computing environments in data centers. The software "enables true automation of repetitive IT tasks associated with network, server and storage provisioning to deliver unprecedented efficiency," the company said. Provisioning tasks that used to take days can be done in seconds, the company claims.
Voltaire said GridVision Enterprise integrates with leading server and storage virtualization solutions, as well as provisioning and scheduling tools, to create a single, logical data center environment consisting of both physical and virtual resources.
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