BIG DATA

Concurrent Thinking’s upcoming V3.2 Cluster Management Appliances bring unprecedented simplicity to the process of installing and managing HPC clusters for systems integrators and administrators and will utilise new features, including:

• Building clusters just by using the appliance
• Wizard for configuring cluster and appliance
• Single click add/replace nodes
• Stand-alone management and imaging
• Backup and restore for cluster front-end and compute nodes
• Improved management of monitoring data
• Support for multiple Linux flavours
• Support for multiple sub-systems

Concurrent Thinking will be demonstrating these capabilities at SC08 booth #2341 in Austin, Texas during 17th to 20th November 2008. The latest Cluster Management Appliance installations demonstrate the ability to provide high quality cluster deployment and management solutions across a spectrum of end user environments. The full descriptions of these recent deployments and wins can be found at www.concurrent-thinking.com and they include:

• Oxford Supercomputing Centre (OSC), part of the Oxford e-Research Centre, have been able to bring a new 1024 core cluster facility into service for HPC users and uses “best of breed” technology from different vendors combined in a single manageable HPC environment.
• Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping (OHM), the world’s leading provider of Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) services, including surveying, data processing, and data interpretation services to the offshore oil industry. Using the latest Cluster Management Appliance has enabled the effective integration of new hardware in record time to extend their cluster from humble beginnings to the powerful solution that exists on-site today.
• Wirth Research and its subsidiary Digital Flow Solutions specialize in the design and implementation of high performance cars and race simulators. The Concurrent Command Appliance technology delivers a powerful but easy to manage cluster, and was brought fully into service only days after delivery.
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics are installing an 11.52 TFlops peak computing cluster at Oxford University. The solution includes a dedicated Cluster Management Appliance, per compute rack, which in turn coordinates with a master appliance to monitor the whole cluster environment and to provide cluster command and control capabilities.

Concurrent Thinking develops and markets pre-configured cluster appliances that simplify the deployment and support of High Performance Computing systems. By separating out the key functional components of typical HPC cluster systems and embedding these within preconfigured, hardened ‘appliances’. These appliances represent the hard-won experience of more than 50 human years in the design, implementation and support of high performance computing clusters. Concurrent Thinking makes HPC technology accessible to system integrators and end-users, while liberating budget-holders to secure best value-for-money on commodity cluster components.