Unified Cluster Portfolio

With compute cluster options from Red Hat and Novell, HP offers specially priced 8-pack bundles. Combine with enterprise server subscriptions for general purpose and head nodes to ensure full coverage and access to upgrades and software patches.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and 5.0
  
  Compute cluster bundles are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, excluding virtualization support. These are offered for 2 and 4 socket Integrity and ProLiant-based compute nodes, in one- and three-year subscriptions, and include HP support. Users access compute nodes via head node servers, which are implemented with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform. 
  
  
• Novell SUSE SLES 10
  
  Available on ProLiant compute nodes with up to 32 CPUs, HPC 8 packs are based on full SLES 10 edition. The SLES 10 release provides full 64-bit support on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon clusters. Standard subscriptions are available for Integrity systems.

Clusters requiring modification to the Linux kernel, such as installation of drivers for Quadrics interconnect or support of the Lustre cluster file system, are not supported by standard releases from Red Hat or SUSE. Contact HP for alternate options, including XC System Software.

HP-UX Operating Environments (OEs) are tested and integrated application bundles designed to work with the operating system and provide the functionality needed for your system's purpose.

HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing OE (TCOE) is designed for compute-intensive technical applications on HP servers and workstations. TCOE contains the base 64-bit HP-UX operating system, network drivers, and other always-installed functionality, plus optimized math libraries (MLIB), message-passing interface (HP-MPI), technical system configuration (TechSysConf), and extensive graphic applications.

In addition to tools and applications bundled in TCOE, customers in the High Performance Computing area often use other tools such as GlancePlus for comprehensive system performance monitoring and analysis, online JFS for filesystem fine tuning, and MirrorDisk/UX for software disk mirroring. For customers who need to have multi-system high availability support, HP offers MC/ServiceGuard for fail-over support. These tools and applications can be ordered a la carte on top of TCOE.

For more information on HP-UX Operating Environments, please visit the Hewlett-Packard Technical Documentation site and use the keyword search to search for Operating Environment.

HP support for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 adds to customers’ choices of HP-UX, Windows and Linux to meet their HPC operating environment requirements.

Windows Compute Cluster Server™ is a two-component product. The first component is Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition (CCE), a 64-bit operating system derived from Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition.  The second component is the Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack (CCP) which provides tools to deploy, and manage a cluster including: a Job Scheduler, MPI, and consoles and interfaces to manage cluster nodes and jobs. These tools are integrated with existing Windows infrastructure. For example, users and security are managed using Active Directory and cluster management consoles utilize Microsoft Management Console.  Cluster Pack tools work with Visual Studio 2005 which supports MPI, parallel debugging and OpenMP.

As part of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is available on HP Cluster Platform 3000 and 4000 systems and Cluster Platform 4000 blade systems.

The HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI), a leading implementation of the MPI standard and critical for creating and porting parallel applications, is available with Windows Compute Cluster Server. In addition, many 64-bit applications have been ported and optimized for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

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HP offers powerful tools for developing cluster applications. HP-MPI Message Passing Interface library was first developed for HP-UX and is now offered on Linux and soon will be available on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. HP-MPI offers an interconnect-independent platform for MPI, and has been adopted by leading Independent Software Vendors for their parallel implementations. HP MLIB, available on HP-UX, offers a collection of highly customized mathematical subroutines for high performance. Also offered are a range of development tools and utilities from HP and its partners. See the Applications and Tools section for more information.