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Linux clusters solution from IBM
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| Changing the game with Linux clusters
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IBM brings our experience, support and service to the cluster market to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of Linux cluster solutions that can allow research institutions to upgrade their high-performance computing systems, helping to meet the scientific supercomputing power needs of their users.
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| IBM is committed to Linux clustering
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Our solutions draw on many years of clustering, as well as Linux experience:- IBM has built and continues to build some of the world’s largest and most complex Linux clusters in response to our customer’s requirements.
- The intellectual capital that allows successful creation and implementation of the largest clusters is being brought to bear on the emerging commercial market for Linux clusters of all sizes.
- IBM is uniquely qualified to design and install large Linux super clusters, providing the infrastructure needed for high power systems.
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| Clusters that help expand the computing frontier
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IBM Linux Clusters are popular with research organizations for the price-performance characteristics of Intel processors combined with UNIX®-like operating systems:- Gain the optimized performance of a UNIX machine
- Take advantage of a familiar architecture and programming model
- Possess the infrastructure needed for systems, as opposed to collections of independent parts
- Deliver a complete cluster and manage it from a single location
Our solutions are used across a variety of research fields, including those in bioinformatics, genomics and cheminformatics for highly parallel applications. With Linux Clusters and parallel programming, IBM can help you gain an effective approach to solving scientific and technical computing challenges:- High Availability -- redundancy and fail-over for fault tolerance
- High performance -- many systems working together on a single problem
- Server consolidation -- central management of resources dedicated to disparate tasks
Depending on the scale and capabilities needed, IBM can customize a Linux cluster solution in as little as two days. Your organization’s researchers can have the ability to tackle larger problems and store large result sets to advance their research.
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| The NCSA clusters of choice
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides high-performance computing resources to the academic research community and develops new technologies to help enable scientific discovery and maintain America’s competitive edge in the global marketplace.
NCSA installed two IBM Linux Clusters to offer increased computational power. They believe that Linux clusters could soon be the most widely used architecture for parallel computing and the two clusters from IBM are the best way to deliver terascale performance. Scientists are now able to better tackle problems that require weeks, months or even years of supercomputing power.
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| Designed for cost-effective research
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Clustering is designed to offer significant price-performance advantages for the critical needs of today’s e-business and scientific workloads. IBM Linux Cluster solutions are highly flexible, intelligent and manageable solutions ideal for education and research environments:- Reduce costs on hardware and software
- Extend system lifetime for long-term savings
- Decrease costs by managing the environment from a central location
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