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Availigent’s High Availability Solution Now Supports HP Linux-Based XC Clusters
“Support by Duration for XC 2.1 software is the first phase of product integration between Availigent and HP, and both companies are actively engaged in exploring other integration opportunities to bring 5Nines availability (99.999% uptime) to all systems services,” said Bud Michael, CEO of Availigent. “This release and point of integration is the start of a deeper level of support for XC from Duration.”
Mitchell Ratner, vice president-product management for Availigent, said Duration currently provides head node support for XC, with support for clustered and parallel applications using either TCP/IP or Message Passing Interface (MPI) for interprocess communications and synchronization. Ratner said future releases of Duration will support other XC-related services and applications. “The combination of HP XC Clusters with Availigent’s ‘intelligent availability’ product Duration allows our customers to achieve high availability for jobs submitted in an XC-managed high performance computing environment,” said Bruce Toal, director of marketing, High Performance Computing Division, HP. “With the expansion of cluster sizes and workloads, customers demand increasingly high levels of availability for HPC applications, and using Duration allows us to help them achieve their goals.” How Duration Works Availigent’s Duration achieves 5Nines availability, meaning less than five minutes application downtime a year, through its unique, systems-level architecture. Requiring no modifications to the Linux kernel or to applications, Duration offers stateful end-to-end recovery of multi-tier applications, usually within seconds. Unlike other solutions that require applications to re-start after a failure, Duration keeps applications running so users are unaware that a malfunction occurred. Therefore, the enterprise is not compromised by a system failure, workers do not lose productivity and customers of web-based businesses are not disrupted.
Mitchell Ratner, vice president-product management for Availigent, said Duration currently provides head node support for XC, with support for clustered and parallel applications using either TCP/IP or Message Passing Interface (MPI) for interprocess communications and synchronization. Ratner said future releases of Duration will support other XC-related services and applications. “The combination of HP XC Clusters with Availigent’s ‘intelligent availability’ product Duration allows our customers to achieve high availability for jobs submitted in an XC-managed high performance computing environment,” said Bruce Toal, director of marketing, High Performance Computing Division, HP. “With the expansion of cluster sizes and workloads, customers demand increasingly high levels of availability for HPC applications, and using Duration allows us to help them achieve their goals.” How Duration Works Availigent’s Duration achieves 5Nines availability, meaning less than five minutes application downtime a year, through its unique, systems-level architecture. Requiring no modifications to the Linux kernel or to applications, Duration offers stateful end-to-end recovery of multi-tier applications, usually within seconds. Unlike other solutions that require applications to re-start after a failure, Duration keeps applications running so users are unaware that a malfunction occurred. Therefore, the enterprise is not compromised by a system failure, workers do not lose productivity and customers of web-based businesses are not disrupted.