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New release extends strengths in scalability, reliability, and usability for Linux cluster management and MPI solutions: Scali today announced the availability of Scali Manage/HA, an extension to its flagship software product specifically designed to deliver high availability for customers with increasingly complex, mission critical, high performance computing environments. Scali Manage/HA provides advanced software and services for delivering highly available Scali Manage installations and highly available cluster head nodes. Specifically, Scali Manage/HA supports fault tolerance of: • The Scali Manage server, ensuring continuous access to the management console, configuration states, images, etc. • All cluster gateways enabling access to all nodes within clusters • Any Linux Standards Base (LSB) complaint services running on the Scali Manage server or on the head nodes The new functionality is an extension to the Scali Manage cluster management solution, and is offered with configuration and installation services. Scali Manage version 5.4 includes a number of new features and extensions within the core product as well, including support for scaling to even larger cluster installations, numerous usability enhancements, extensions to Scali’s integration with PBS Pro workload management, and support for new hardware and operating system versions. “Traditionally, Linux cluster deployments have been technology-driven and isolated. However, as organizations begin to recognize the power of cluster computing, they are increasingly making it part of their production environments. As Linux clusters become more mission critical, the need for high availability and robust management tools becomes even more important to an organization”, said Jack Kay, CEO of Scali. “With this release, we are extending our solution to address these challenges, while maintaining the performance, scalability and usability that have always been Scali’s strength.” Scali Manage 5.4 is available now at its Web site