Integrated
HPC Operating Environment
To bring HPC capabilities to desktop-bound engineers and scientists, the Cray CX1™ supercomputer includes an integrated solution stack that provides a simplified, common operating environment. The intuitive HPC environment simplifies job submission, status and progress monitoring, and delivers maximum compute performance and scalability to the end user. Options include:
Microsoft HPC Server
2008
The Cray CX1™ supercomputer can ship with Microsoft HPC Server 2008 pre-installed to provide for simplified cluster deployment, job submission and status monitoring. This solution tightly integrates with existing desktop Windows infrastructures, allowing users to extend desktop technology and skills to the realm of HPC computing. The solution also integrates with Windows Active Directory, security technologies and management and deployment tools.
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is designed for enterprise deployments providing the most cost-effective, flexible and scalable environment. It features support for shared cache and multi-core systems, kernel SMP locking enhancements for improved scalability and IPv4/IPv6 performance enhancements. RHEL supports very large high performance file systems with Global File System (GFS) and support for NSFv4. It is also interoperable with Microsoft Windows file and print (CIFS) systems through Samba. Finally, RHEL provides excellent compiler and debugging capabilities with GCC 4.1 and Glibc 2.4.
With the addition of the Moab Hybrid Cluster solution from Cluster Resources, the Cray CX1™ system will be able to run both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems concurrently, dynamically switching between the two operating systems based on workload, defined policies, and application needs. The addition of Moab on the Cray CX1™ system will increase flexibility and productivity and decrease costs for organizations in scheduling, managing, monitoring, and reporting on Windows, Linux, or mixed-OS workloads.
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