| HP Cluster Platform Express comes straight to you, factory assembled and available with pre-installed software for cluster management, and ready for deployment. The extensive array of software development tools and applications featured in the Unified Cluster Portfolio are supported on Cluster Platform Express solutions, which adhere to the design and quality standards of HP Cluster Platforms. These clusters offer a choice of compute nodes, with HP ProLiant DL165 or BL465c Blade servers featuring Quadcore AMD Opteron processors, or HP ProLiant DL160 G5, BL2x220c, BL260c or BL460c nodes, with multicore Intel Xeon processors. Larger nodes can be selected to use as control nodes, providing additional storage and network connectivity.
Software options include Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributions, as well as HP's message passing library, HP-MPI. For Windows environments, HPC Server 2008 is officially released from Microsoft, and the list of HP supported platforms can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/windowscert. The HP OEM version will be offered within the CPE portfolio as an integrated option later this year.
For complete cluster environment, HP's XC software can provide cluster management and job management, along with Linux and the MPI. HP Cluster Management Utility and Platform Manager (formerly known as Scali Manage) are also available for Linux cluster management, along with Insight Control Environment - Linux (ICE-Linux) offered in Blade configurations.
Clusters for High Performance Computing can be simple, but deciding what to include can be complex. With HP Cluster Platforms, you don't need to be on your own. HP and its authorized resellers are available for advice on selecting components.
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