Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris
Just couple days ago, Sun announced the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris. It's a fully-featured HPC development environment that is distributed as a virtual machine (VM). It is based on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and includes pre-configured:
- Sun Grid Engine 6.2u3
- Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1
- Sun Studio 12u1
- Sun Studio IDE Plugins
- Examples of DTrace and performance analysis
- Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo)
The compelling feature for HPC developers is that this VM can add cluster resources from Amazon EC2 when local simulated 3-node cluster is insufficient. See the architecture diagram here.
If you wish to give it a try on VirtualBox rather than on VMware follow this blog post.
Additional links:
Download page
Wiki documentation
Release notes
