products HPC Products Bright Cluster Manager 5.2
Bright Computing is now shipping version 5.2 of its Bright Cluster Manager. This latest release of the product includes multiple new features and a broad range of expanded capabilities for managing HPC clusters. These capabilities include enhanced multi-cluster support, full Cuda 4.0 support for Nvidia GPUs, tightly integrated support for on-demand SMP, additional options for integrated workload management, support for the latest releases of Linux distributions, cluster reliability
PGI C/C++ compilers The Portland Group is now shipping the PGI Cuda C and C++ compilers for systems based on the industry standard general-purpose 64-bit and 32-bit x86 architectures. The new compilers enable more developers to use the Cuda parallel programming model to optimise the performance of the critical parts of their code base, targeting servers and clusters with or without Nvidia GPUs. When run on x86-based systems, PGI Cuda C/ C++ applications perform parallel execution by using the multiple processor cores and Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions (SSE), including the new AVX instructions available on the latest generation of x86 compatible CPUs from Intel and AMD.
ActiveStor 11 Panasas has released the ActiveStor 11 parallel storage system appliance. Powered by the PanFS operating system, ActiveStor 11 scales to 6PB of capacity and 115GB/s of throughput from a single global namespace. Its advanced blade architecture is optimised for data-intensive applications where time-to-results is a critical concern, and the parallel scale-out storage architecture eliminates bottlenecks seen in traditional NAS systems, enabling HPC cluster nodes to directly access a single, scalable fi le system. Administrators can easily add
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improvement and an enhanced web-based user portal.
The company has enhanced its multi-cluster support beyond the ability to monitor and manage multiple clusters from a single GUI or CLI. Bright Cluster Manager 5.2 enables any cluster settings, including monitoring rules, health checks, user information and access roles, to be exported from one cluster to one or more other clusters.
www.brightcomputing.com
PGI will roll out the x86 Cuda C/C++ compilers in three phases. Phase one, available now, demonstrates the capabilities of the technology and allows developers to begin working with the compilers. Phase two, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2011, will include performance optimisations intended to extract maximum performance of Cuda programs running on the x86 target platform. Phase three, planned for mid 2012, will include support for PGI Unifi ed Binary technology – the ability to run one executable on both CPUs and GPUs. The compilers for x86 are included as part of the PGI Accelerator product line.
www.pgroup.com/cuda-x86
HyperWorks On-Demand
HyperWorks On-Demand (HWOD), a high-performance computing (HPC) solution for design innovation in the Cloud has been released by Altair Engineering. HWOD utilises Altair’s patented licensing system, providing access to HyperWorks and a modern, scalable HPC infrastructure through a secure and effi cient Web- based platform.
Customers can use their existing
HyperWorks Units (HWUs) or purchase a pool of HWUs residing on HWOD to gain access to an extensive selection of Altair products
IBM HPC cloud
IBM has announced new high- performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings to help users tackle advanced scientifi c and technical computing workloads like analytics, simulations for product development, climate research and life sciences. These cloud offerings will allow individuals to link computing resources across their organisations into a single, high-performance, private cloud while providing system administrators the fl exibility to set priorities based on business or technical needs.
The HPC cloud offerings from IBM
can enable clients to manage and prioritise HPC assets on a global basis while maintaining operations and data securely behind their company’s fi rewall. This capability will allow organisations in industries like oil and gas or manufacturing, which capture large volumes of unstructured data, to pool and scale internal computing resources to respond to fl uctuating amounts of data that need to be processed and analysed, for example.
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and the HPC infrastructure required to run those applications. The Altair products currently available on HWOD include Radioss, a multi-disciplinary fi nite element solver for structural analysis; OptiStruct, a structural optimisation solver; AcuSolve, a fi nite- element-based computational fl uid dynamics (CFD) solver; and Altair’s BatchMesher, a high-fi delity fi nite element mesher for large assemblies. Additional solutions, including solvers from the HyperWorks Partner Alliance and HyperWorks desktop applications, will be added soon.
www.hyperworksondemand.com
new storage to the global namespace from a single point of management in less than 10 minutes without disrupting workfl ows. ActiveStor 11 features user quotas, snapshots, and per-user chargeback reporting, enabling administrators to monitor and manage storage resources within their private cloud. Shipping of Panasas is expected to begin August 2011. In addition, a 60TB confi guration of the existing ActiveStor 12 appliance is expected to be available in the same timeframe.
www.panasas.com
SGI’s Altix and Rackable servers gain Nvidia Tesla GPUs
SGI has announced availability of the latest Nvidia Tesla 20-series GPUs in its server product lines. Last year, SGI deployed a GPU- equipped Altix UV system at the University of Tennessee’s Center for Remote Data Analysis and Visualisation (RDAV), bringing a machine with 4TB of available shared memory to GPU computing. The company has also designed custom GPU solutions through its Custom Engineering group using SGI Rackable products as building
blocks, providing customers with choices among the rich motherboard, processor, and memory options available today.
SGI also offers the SGI Prism XL system, a custom accelerator solution that supports Nvidia GPUs and has the capability to scale to tens of petafl ops. SGI added support for Nvidia Tesla GPUs in its Altix UV 10 as well as rackable servers C2112- 4TY14, C3108-TY11, C1103-TY12, C1104-2TY9, and H2106-G7.
www.sgi.com
www.scientific-computing.com
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