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Software
Cray offers Red Hat or Centos Linux on the Cray CX1000 product, controlled through the Cray Cluster Manager (powered by Platform™). The Cray Cluster Manager is a powerful system providing a combination of cluster management, scheduling software (Platform LSF), MPI and dual-boot capability (Platform Adaptive Software).
HPC Operating Environments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is designed for enterprise deployments providing a 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 NFSv4. 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.
Windows HPC Server 2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 is an integrated solution stack that provides a simplified, common operating environment which offers consistent and integrated deployment, job submission, status and progress monitoring while delivering maximum compute performance and scalability, from workgroup HPC systems to some of the world's largest supercomputers, to the end user. Windows HPC Server 2008 integrates with Windows Active Directory, security technologies and management and deployment tools. It supports traditional HPC MPI applications, as well as new interactive and service-oriented parallel applications using Microsoft .NET platform. In addition, Windows HPC Server 2008 easily integrates with existing Windows and Unix environments, making it an ideal platform for developing and running advanced HPC applications, including support for a high performance networking stack, C/C++, MPI, MPI.Net, F#, C#, Fortran, advanced debugging and tracing tools, including Vampir, along with Windows Performance Toolkit.
To find out more about integrating Windows HPC Server 2008 on the Cray CX1000 product, contact us at cx1info@cray.com.
Cray Cluster Manager
Cray Cluster Manager (powered by Platform Computing) is a "re-think" of how open clusters are deployed and managed. It is a complete, certified solution that includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage HPC clusters with unprecedented ease. Cray Cluster Manager is built for optimal performance and uptime, while offering management, support and update benefits that are simply not possible with other cluster management solutions. Benefits include:
- Fast, flexible cluster deployment
- Simple cluster management through an intuitive web management interface
- Optimal uptime and productivity – updates applied with no re-booting or re-installation
- Quickly and easily build high performance applications through a fully integrated commercial MPI
- Accelerated application performance with integrated workload management
- Easily scales as your business needs grow
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