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The HP Unified Cluster Portfolio is a comprehensive, modular package of tested and pre-configured hardware, software and services for scalable computation, data management and visualization. It features flexible platforms, a wide range of open source and commercial middleware, and the latest in industry-standard technology-all with the simplicity and affordability of a factory-built, tested, and supported solution.

The Unified Cluster Portfolio is the first solution in the industry to provide a common implementation across multiple operating systems (HP-UX, Microsoft Windows® and Linux) and servers based on industry-standard processors (Intel® Xeon™, Itanium® and AMD Opteron™) and through participation with partners and the open source community.

» HP Cluster Platforms: Flexible configurations from 5 to 1024 nodes, with choice of interconnects:

• HP Cluster Platform Express: Ready-to-go solutions with up to 32 compute nodes
• New! HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System: Almost a teraflop/s of computing in a footprint of only two square feet!
• HP Cluster Platform 3000: featuring Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 and Dual core Intel-Xeon™ 5100 series processor-based servers
• HP Cluster Platform 3000BL: ProLiant BL260c, BL460c and BL480c Server Blades as compute nodes
• HP Cluster Platform 4000: New! Quad-Core AMD Opteron-based servers
• HP Cluster Platform 4000BL: Featuring ProLiant BL465c server blades as compute nodes
• HP Cluster Platform 6000: Itanium® 2-based servers

» Operating environments: Tested and supported on HP Cluster Platforms, optional operating systems include Linux, HP-UX 11i (on HP Cluster Platform 6000), and Microsoft Windows 2003 (on HP Cluster Platform 3000 and 4000). HP-MPI is available on all opearating systems, and provides an ISV-endorsed cross-interconnect MPI library for parallel applications. HP MLIB Math Library is available to accelerate performance on HP Cluster Platform 6000 solutions.

» Cluster management: Comprehensive cluster management solutions from HP and its partners, are available installed and ready for deployment. HP XC System Software, HP Cluster Management Utility, HP Insight Control Environment-Linux and Platform Manager are featured for Linux clusters. HP's ClusterPack provides cluster system management for HP-UX clusters, while Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server provides a smooth transition to high performance for Windows environment.

» Scalable Data Management: Increases in computational capabilities create larger volumes of data that need to be managed. The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share can be integrated with Cluster Platforms to greatly enhance performance.

» Scalable Visualization: High performance scientific and engineering applications generate very large data sets that need to be visualized, often interactively with computational jobs.

» HPC application, development and grid software portfolio: The HP Unified Cluster Portfolio provides a solid, reference platform for developing and deploying applications. With its partners, HP offers a complete software development environment for all three available operating systems, and has been a pioneer in Grid Computing. HP supports leading applications for all key HPC industry segments, and works closely with its partners and the open source community to ensure the availability of those solutions on our industry-standard HP Cluster Platforms.

» HPC Cluster Services: HP has experience servicing systems, networks, clusters, storage devices, and software for HPC deployments and environments of all sizes. A wide range of service solutions built from standards-based service modules ensure the service coverage and the level of expert assistance desired.