xVM Ops Center in HPC

While Virtualization and Data Center Automation for the Enterprise is a big focus for Ops Center, HPC is another area where Ops Center is seeing major traction.  The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the first place we rolled out Ops Center into full production, and since that we've also put it into production on another large HPC cluster in Korea.

The TACC Ranger computer was the first instance of the complete Sun Constellation System.  When Constellation was being designed, Ops Center wasn't yet complete and Ops Center was added after the first phase of the build.  However, at the International Super Computing conference in Dresden this week, Sun announced the newest incarnation of the Constellation stack.  Here's the list of software officially included in the stack, which now includes Ops Center!

Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 1.0 speeds cluster deployment times by up to 10x by avoiding extensive software integration and testing, writing custom scripts and complicated deployment to compute nodes.

Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 supports a multitude of RedHat and SuSE Linux variants along with Solaris in one unified solution to allow for updates and monitoring of different OS environments using one system.

Sun Visualization Software 1.1 key for analyzing complex data rapidly, combines both Sun(TM) Scalable Visualization software and Sun(TM) Shared Visualization software with NVIDIA graphics solutions, Sun systems, networking and interconnect. Scales across Sun systems to support immersive environments and remote visualization.

Solaris HPC Developer Preview integrates Sun HPC Cluster Tools (for Open MPI), Sun(TM) Grid Engine (for application workload management), and Sun(TM) Studio software (for application development), enables rapid development and optimization of HPC applications and then seamlessly allows the software to be deployed in a parallel environment.

Sun HPC Cluster Tools 8.0 provides developers with the tools to create and tune Message-passing Interface (MPI) applications that run on high performance clusters and SMPs and offers parallel application performance analysis and optimization by incorporating VampirTrace and MPI PERUSE.

Sun Grid Engine 6.2 enhances scalability by supporting larger grids and offers finer grain control required by interdependent workloads and provides the ability to move resources from grid to grid in multi-cluster HPC environments.

Posted at 05:00AM Jun 19, 2008 by Stephen Wilson in Virtualization  |