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Cluster Management - Automate software installation and configuration
- Easily add and manage cluster nodes using the web interface
- Change node group definitions with ease
- Maintain multiple software versions with repository snapshots
- Install patches and software packages without re-provisioning
- Patch new device drivers into repositories
- Graphical views for monitoring clusters
- A rich set of software kits
- Common HPC tools included
- Web-based management and monitoring
- Deploy multiple OS environments to the same cluster
- Support real-world network topologies
- Synchronize cluster files without re-installing
- Optional command line interfaces
| - Dramatically reduce set up time
- No hidden costs or deployment surprises
- Deploy optimized clusters quickly and predictably
- Higher productivity with integrated cluster management tool
- Be more responsive to your cluster users
- Take the risk out of software upgrades
- Easily roll back changes
- Reduce cluster downtime
- Support future hardware without upgrading the installer node
- No need to hand-edit XML templates or shell scripts
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Workload Management (no restrictions on node count) - High performance and bullet proof workload scheduler and resource management
- Advanced job scheduling policies
- Handles a mixture of serial and parallel workload
- Submit jobs directly through the web portal
- Highly customizable job management and actions
- Support checkpoint and restart
- Plug-in resource tracking and management capability
- Advanced and flexible resource reservation
- Manage workloads and job status through the web interface
- View job results interactively in web browser
| - No wasted cycles
- Maximize job performance, throughput, and user productivity
- Reduce end user training requirements
- Reduce job submission errors
- Limit access to the cluster based on identity and role
- Ease of troubleshooting and user support
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Automated OS boot and provisioning - Boot different OS based on workload change
- Support mixture of Windows and different flavors of Linux
- Manual or workload driven
| - Increase cluster utilization
- Meet dynamic user demands on application environment
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Highly customizable Web Portal - Support of graphics and interactive jobs
- Out of box application integration with commonly used commercial applications
- Customize job submission template without leaving the web browser
| - Simplify user access to HPC clusters
- Reduce administration and user support cost
- Easy setup for running commercial HPC applications
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Application integrations - Application specific job submission templates in web portal
- Support of commonly used commercial applications
| - Hide complexity to end users
- Reduce deployment time and effort
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Workload and System Analysis - Graphical monitoring and reporting
- Correlate workload with system load information
- Zoom in zoom out for troubleshooting
- Job profile to help define accurate resource requirement
| - Easy capacity planning without guess work
- Maintain a healthy cluster proactively
- Dramatically reduce troubleshooting time
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Commercial MPI - Optimized for simplicity and performance
- Libraries pre-compiled and tuned for the latest hardware and interconnects
- Tightly integrated with workload management
| - Realize better performance “out of the box”
- Maximize application level performance
- Avoid run away MPI tasks
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Certified - Used to deploy certified Intel® Cluster Ready Systems
- Pre-engineered and tested on select hardware configurations
| - Simplifies Linux cluster application, deployment and management by providing pre-configured, certified clusters
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Support - Single point of contact for a fully integrated hardware & software solution
- Software updates included
- Enterprise support from the industry’s highest regarded HPC support organization
| - Enjoy peace of mind with a fully supported solution backed by the best in the business
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