As cluster, grid and cloud computing continue their rapid mainstream adoption, an increasing number of application and hardware vendors are responding to customer demand by partnering with Platform Computing to develop joint solutions that leverage HPC technology. These joint solutions “Powered by Platform” increase the value of the partner solution while improving customer productivity, competitiveness, ROI as well as providing:
- Simplified solution deployment and management
- Increased utilization and control of IT investments as well as improved application performance and throughput
- Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) of HPC infrastructure and reduced requirement for power and cooling in the data center
- Dynamic matching of IT resources to meet business demand
- Improved application resiliency and network uptime
Platform Cluster Manager – Dell Edition is a pre-integrated, vendor certified stack that enables the consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters. It includes a complete range of tools necessary to deploy, run and manage a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in one easy-to-install package optimized to run on Dell hardware.
Platform HPC Workgroup – Dell Edition is designed for small workgroup users who need a cluster for dramatically improving performance of their applications. It is a comprehensive cluster productivity lifecycle management solution to help set up and use a cluster. It includes cluster configuration, deployment and management capabilities designed to work together to help address a broad array of HPC cluster needs.
Platform HPC Enterprise – Dell Edition – is a comprehensive cluster productivity lifecycle management solution to help set up and use a cluster with more power and simplicity for technical application users. With support for some of the most popular technical applications, users can harness the flexibility, power, and scalability needed to radically improve the performance of their applications. Whether you have small or large-scale HPC clusters, Platform HPC Enterprise – Dell Edition provides cluster configuration and deployment to management solutions for popular technical applications all designed to work together.
The Cray Cluster Manager powered by Platform Computing includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage a Linux®-based or dual-boot Cray CX supercomputer while allowing organizations to utilize the systems full potential with unprecedented ease. Running a Cray CX system powered by Cray Cluster Manager is the quickest and easiest way to align technology to meet core business objectives to deliver real, tangible value.
SAS Grid Computing enables SAS applications to automatically use grid computing. It efficiently allocates compute-intensive SAS applications across systems, improving hardware utilization for better application performance and resilience. SAS Grid Computing is Powered by Platform LSF.
The Red Hat HPC Solution is a low-cost, end-to-end software stack for high performance computing. It provides all the tools needed to deploy, run, and manage an HPC cluster in one easy to install package. It is designed to power departmental clusters running industry-standard x86 64-bit hardware.
Now's a great time to improve your cluster application performance and utilization, with the new HP HPC Linux Value Pack. The Value Pack includes the premier choice for MPI (message-passing interface), workload management, and HP implementations of SHMEM and Unified Parallel C (UPC).
In line with Fujitsu’s HPC strategy, the PCM Fujitsu Edition product which incorporates Platform technology offers a fully validated HPC software stack that combines leading Open Source Software (OSS) with Platform’s HPC products for the BX900, RX200 and CX1000 PRIMERGY servers. The HPC software stack incorporated within PCM Fujitsu Edition offers a very cost effective solution for HPC clusters of all sizes and is backed by enterprise level support services. PCM Fujitsu Edition is available in two versions; PCM Fujitsu Edition Basic Package and PCM Fujitsu Edition Enterprise Package.
