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OCS 5

Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 5

Attention all Platform OCS 5 customers:

Effective May 5th, 2009, Platform OCS 5 will be renamed to Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) to align with Platform’s current product strategy. Rest assured this does not affect any existing Annual Cluster Care and support agreements.

Built for maximum cluster uptime

Platform OCS 5 is a “re-think” of how open clusters are deployed and managed. It is a complete, certified solution that includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage HPC clusters with unprecedented ease. Leveraging Platform’s leadership in HPC management software, Platform OCS 5 is built for optimal performance and uptime, while offering management, support and update benefits that are simply not possible with less advanced cluster management solutions.

Benefit of Platform OCS 5:

  • Easily deploy HPC clusters
  • Simple cluster management through an intuitive  web-interface
  • Optimal uptime and productivity by updating compute nodes without re-booting / re-installing
  • Quickly and easily build high performance applications through a fully integrated commercial MPI
  • Accelerated application performance with integrated workload management
  • Easily scales as your business needs grow
  • Fully certified & supported

You should consider Platform OCS 5 if you:

  • Need to take the risk, complexity, and associated costs out of your cluster deployment
  • Want to work with a cluster management solution that provides maximum control and productivity while minimizing downtime
  • See value in efficiently  aligning your IT resources to help meet your business objectives today and tomorrow

Selected features:

  • Easy-to-use graphical management and job-submission interface that both administrators and cluster users will appreciate
  • Contains a rich set of pre-integrated HPC tools, libraries, and middleware components – all easily and quickly installed using pre-packaged software “Kits”
  • Completely automated software installation and configuration – components are ready for use on your choice of node at the click of a mouse
  • Based on the open source software developed through Project Kusu

"Intel and Platform Computing have optimized the performance of hundreds of thousands of enterprise High Performance Computing nodes."

Richard Dracott, General Manager, Intel High Performance Systems