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Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 5

 

Minimize the cost and time spent on deploying and managing a Linux cluster

Clusters, comprised of commodity server hardware and software is disruptive technology gaining acceptance as the enterprise solution to an ever-increasing number of problems in the data center. Clusters are reshaping the High Performance Computing (HPC) market driven primarily by price, performance and the Linux open source operating system.

“Clusters made simple” is the best way to describe out why Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 5 is the ideal solution to manage a Linux-based cluster. Platform OCS 5 enables analysts, engineers, & scientists from companies of any size to exploit the power of HPC. As an out-of-the-box, pre-integrated, vendor-certified HPC infrastructure software solution, Platform OCS 5 offers consistent and stable scale-out of application clusters as business needs dictate. Broad ISV application support allows you to wrest additional value from existing investments in software by running the applications more efficiently. 
 

2 minute Demos: Clusters Made Simple with Platform OCS 5




 How you can benefit from Platform OCS 5

  • Buy it and run it
  • Reduce costs of managing HPC infrastructure
  • Achieve faster time to market through accelerated design cycles.
  • Focus admin resources on improving cluster performance
  • Tested and configured third-party application integrations guarantee that the purchased applications will work on a cluster

 

You should consider Platform OCS 5 if you:

  • Need all-in-one cluster solutions
  • Plan to start small and simple before growing to a sophisticated HPC environment
  • Are an adopter of open source and open software structure
     

Selected Features:

  • Embedded workload management, cluster management and application development tools
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 support
    Support for CentOS5
  • Single-command update and patch of applications and OS to all machines
  • Create clusters with diskless nodes or imaged nodes in minutes
  • Intel Cluster Ready certified software suite
  • Latest cluster tools from the Open Source Software community
  • 24 x 7 support from Platform and partner ecosystem
  • Backed up by leading HPC vendors: Dell, Red Hat, and Platform Computing
     
Note regarding Platform OCS 4.4.0: This product includes software developed by the Rocks Cluster Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and its contributors.
This product, on its own, does not constitute an Intel® Cluster Ready system, nor does combining it with another product ensure that the complete system is Intel® Cluster Ready, unless the complete system is specifically certified as an Intel® Cluster Ready system.