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In today's fast paced business world, many companies need to run high performance computing applications to accelerate their business workloads and stay competitive.
These applications perform tasks ranging from analyzing the best way to drill for oil – to designing the best product packaging – to creating new medicines.
In order to run high performance computing applications, systems must provide excellent computing performance while addressing cost and space concerns in the data center.
This is where IBM can help speed the time to real business results.
The IBM HPC Cluster solution helps reduce time to deploy Linux® and Windows® clusters. It helps drive energy efficiency with the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager software which gives you all the information and control you need to make more efficient use of power in the data center. With the IBM System Cluster 1350, IBM offers an industry leading choice of cluster components to help you meet your specific computing requirements.These choices include blade or rack-mount servers, processors, options, storage, operating systems, and software.
A rich array of IBM System Storage™ offerings provides you with highly reliable data storage for your applications that require high-speed transfer and/ or large amounts of data.Your networking choices include Ethernet, 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, and Myrinet switches from industry-leading providers.
For added flexibility in your HPC environment IBM offers a choice of cluster operating systems which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and Windows Compute Cluster Server.
In addition to being shipped assembled, cabled and ready for rapid deployment, IBM offers a variety of implementation services for the IBM System Cluster 1350 to help ensure the smoothest possible set up at the client site.
For added security, IBM provides 3 year top to bottom warranty support for your cluster: a single point-of-contact for all your support needs.
For optimal management of your cluster, the open-source extreme cluster administration toolkit, or xCAT provides a consistent command line interface that is high function and easy for your system administrator to use.
It is one of the most mature and scalable deployment engines on the planet – proven up to thousands and thousands of nodes.
Designed for ease of use, the intuitive browser based user interface allows for access to perform routine operations such as remote power management, redeployment, and consoles.
The monitoring infrastructure is built on open source tools to monitor the running status of the systems including a view of individualized nodes and running jobs on the system.
With HPC technology experience and leadership, flexibility in your cluster configuration, rigorous component and operating system testing, leading-edge server, switching and storage technologies, and a single point-of-contact for support for the entire cluster-all mean that the IBM System Cluster 1350 is the ideal choice for your high performance computing needs.
Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, IBM has an innovative cluster solution that is the RIGHT choice for your high performance computing. It provides a clearly OPEN way to manage your cluster, is EASY to deploy and integrate into your infrastructure, and is highly energy efficient.
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