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With seven global Computing on Demand Centers currently in operation, members have access to over 10,000 HPC compute cluster cores, 50 Terabyes of IBM storage, the latest interconnects and more. IBM CoD centers feature a variety of technologies including IBM POWER, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron.
With Computing on Demand you can choose to run on several different supercomputing configurations.
Compute Capacity
- IBM BladeCenter® or System x® Intel® Xeon 32 and 64 bit servers
- IBM BladeCenter® or System x® AMD Opteron™ 32-/64-bit servers
- Linux®
- Microsoft® Windows®
- IBM System p POWER 5+™ 64-bit servers
- Choice of interconnects: 100/Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, Myrinet
Servers
- Management Node
- Storage Nodes
Storage
- Fiber Channel, SCSI
- Direct attach, SAN
Management Software
- xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) – for distributed computing management and provisioning
- IBM Director - for managing individual xSeries servers
- IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) on Multiplatforms™ (optional)
Networking & Security
- ITAR Government workload capable
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- VLANs
- Firewalls
- Intrusion detection
- Central switch redundancy
- Edge switches
- Terminal servers
- Router/Switch Access Controls
- Layer 3 Security Controls – IP Red Zone Subnets
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