Red Hat intros Linux-based HPC platform

RALEIGH, USA: Red Hat, provider
of open
source solutions has announced the delivery of Linux-based High
Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of
the Red Hat HPC Solution.

Historically, building and managing HPC clusters
has provided cost and expertise challenges for IT departments faced
with lengthy deployment timelines and tedious integration work
requiring extensive training, planning and upkeep.

Today, with the availability of
the comprehensive Red
Hat HPC Solution, customers of all levels and workloads are
offered the benefits of high-performance computing through an
easy-to-install, end-to-end solution that can be deployed in under
one hour.

"We're delivering the first Linux-based
solution that allows our customers to deploy a fully integrated
high-performance computing environment in minutes rather than in
weeks or months. No one else in the industry has yet been able to
deliver this type of compelling Linux solution for HPC clusters,"
said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red
Hat.

The Red Hat HPC Solution
incorporates all of the components necessary to deploy and maintain
HPC clusters, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and Platform
Open Cluster Stack 5. The solution also includes device drivers, a
simple cluster installer, cluster management tools, a resource and
application monitor, interconnect support and Platform Lava, a
powerful job scheduler.

For deploying and managing HPC clusters, Red Hat,
Dell and Platform
Computing have also partnered to offer customers a comprehensive
cluster computing package, Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS), to ease
cluster deployment, management and operation of the Red Hat HPC
Solution.

"With the Red Hat HPC Solution, organizations
ranging from the enterprise to SMB will be able to adopt open source
solutions that are fully supported, easy-to-use and cost-effective to
implement," said Tripp Purvis, vice president, Business
Development, Platform Computing.

"Dell is committed to
simplifying High Performance Computing solutions and sees benefit in
the approach that Red Hat is taking with their HPC Solution"
said Judy Chavis, director of Business Development and Product
Management, Dell Inc.

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