IBM Platform Computing

IBM Platform HPC is a complete high performance computing (HPC) management solution in a single product. It includes a rich set of out-of the-box features that empowers high performance technical computing users by reducing the complexity of their HPC environment and improving their time-to-solution.

Brochure (758KB)

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Evaluation

Demonstration

IBM® Platform™ HPC allows technical computing users in industries such as manufacturing, oil and gas, life sciences, and higher education and research to deploy, manage and use their HPC cluster through an easy to use web-based interface, thus minimizes the time for setting up and managing the cluster for end users and allows them to focus on developing applications rather than on managing infrastructure. Platform HPC provides full cluster management capabilities—from cluster provisioning and management to workload management and monitoring. All the functions required to operate and use a cluster are installed at once and are tightly integrated. The product is designed to deliver faster time to system readiness, ease-of-use and improved application throughput.

IBM Platform HPC is Intel®Cluster Ready. Platform HPC Provides the ability to deploy Intel Cluster Ready certified clusters. Technical computing users can leverage the user interface to launch Intel Cluster Checker by setting up a simple configuration in the menu.

Whitepapers

• Accelerating parallel processing while simplifying heterogeneous environment management (1.39MB)
• An Application Server Approach To Building Clusters
• Building an on-demand SMP
• The Hidden Costs Of Open Source (1.23MB)

Literature

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  Clusters for Dummies

  Crunch big numbers, manage complex models, and tackle intricate computing problems.

Webcasts

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  Building a HPC Cloud at DuPont

  A dynamic, multi-disciplined R&D computing platform using a hybrid private cloud-cluster infrastructure model

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  HPC Clusters Made Simple

  Can you imagine setting up an appication ready cluster in less than a day?

Swift Engineering

Swift Engineering wanted a solution where they spent more time solving complex problems than administering the system. Cray’s CX 1000 combined with Platform HPC allowed Swift to solve bigger problems with more enhanced graphics with real time speed. Read the story (PDF, 2.54MB)

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

VTTI is a leading American transportation research center conducting naturalistic driving studies that save lives and improves roadways. With IBM Platform HPC, queries that use to take weeks now only take minutes.

University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia wished to create a “green” HPC resource, increase compute power and support research across multiple operating systems. Platform HPC increased compute power from 9 to 21.5 teraflops, cut power consumption rates and costs and provided flexible, responsive support. Read the story (PDF, 1.33MB)

The Hartree Centre

From within the Platform HPC software, the Hartree Centre can use vSMP software from ScaleMP to dynamically pool processing resources and memory from selected nodes into a single virtual resource pool. Read the story (PDF, 809KB)

• Cluster and workload management.
• Workload and system monitoring and reporting.
• Dynamic OS multi-boot.
• GPU scheduling.

• MPI libraries.
• Integrated application scripts and templates.
• Unified web portal.