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Cluster Resources & SGI Sign Reseller Agreement
Cluster Resources, Inc. announced today that they have signed a reseller agreement with SGI, a leader in high-performance computing. Under the agreement, SGI will make Cluster Resources’ Moab line of products available via the SGI Professional Services organization to its customers, including Moab Cluster Suite, Moab Grid Suite and Moab Cluster Builder. 
SGI offers a complete range of HPC products and solutions including servers, storage, visualization, and professional services. Through the SGI Professional Services organization, consulting and project management services are tailored to support installations of Moab. SGI Customer Support provides a first and single point-of-contact for customers by performing entitlement check and initial problem identification and delivering a single vendor convenience for both products and support. “Cluster Resources delivers products to both smaller players in the HPC market as well as to the biggest and best known systems in the world,” said Bob Pette, vice president, Global Professional Services at SGI. “Through the years, we have recognized that Moab scales easily to meet increasing demands for performance and functionality to better manage our customers’ workload. Moab has proven to be a powerful solution for HPC users looking for easy implementation of cluster workloads.” Moab Cluster Suite, a policy-based intelligence engine that integrates scheduling, managing, monitoring and reporting of cluster workloads, is used on eight of the top 20 most powerful clusters/supercomputers on the Top 500 Supercomputer list (www.top500.org). Moab integrates with a resource manager (i.e., TORQUE, Altair’s PBS Professional, LSF, etc.) to generate maximum job throughput and to guarantee service levels are met. Currently, Moab is running on the SGI systems at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the University of Tokyo and the Department of Energy/Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. SGI integrates Moab with SGI Altix servers, SGI Altix XE clusters, and SGI Altix ICE blade systems for a common job control environment thus enabling a single point of job submission and control. Cluster Resources has validated their software on the SGI Altix family and through this process enhanced TORQUE to best take advantage of the Altix platform. The combination of Cluster Resources’ Moab and SGI high performance systems, enable customers to meet their performance and utilization goals as well as simplify their workload management. The graphical user interface of the Web Access Portal adds ease of use and allows new users to quickly become productive in their environment. “SGI and Cluster Resources have been providing customers with joint HPC solutions for several years,” said Scott Hurst, director, Alliance Business Development at Cluster Resources. “Enhancing the partnership is a natural extension of our strategy and provides a more powerful workload management and orchestration solution for our mutual customers who are looking to leverage their HPC infrastructure and help drive down costs of managing workload across disparate systems and increase their ROI on the systems they purchase from SGI.”
SGI offers a complete range of HPC products and solutions including servers, storage, visualization, and professional services. Through the SGI Professional Services organization, consulting and project management services are tailored to support installations of Moab. SGI Customer Support provides a first and single point-of-contact for customers by performing entitlement check and initial problem identification and delivering a single vendor convenience for both products and support. “Cluster Resources delivers products to both smaller players in the HPC market as well as to the biggest and best known systems in the world,” said Bob Pette, vice president, Global Professional Services at SGI. “Through the years, we have recognized that Moab scales easily to meet increasing demands for performance and functionality to better manage our customers’ workload. Moab has proven to be a powerful solution for HPC users looking for easy implementation of cluster workloads.” Moab Cluster Suite, a policy-based intelligence engine that integrates scheduling, managing, monitoring and reporting of cluster workloads, is used on eight of the top 20 most powerful clusters/supercomputers on the Top 500 Supercomputer list (www.top500.org). Moab integrates with a resource manager (i.e., TORQUE, Altair’s PBS Professional, LSF, etc.) to generate maximum job throughput and to guarantee service levels are met. Currently, Moab is running on the SGI systems at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the University of Tokyo and the Department of Energy/Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. SGI integrates Moab with SGI Altix servers, SGI Altix XE clusters, and SGI Altix ICE blade systems for a common job control environment thus enabling a single point of job submission and control. Cluster Resources has validated their software on the SGI Altix family and through this process enhanced TORQUE to best take advantage of the Altix platform. The combination of Cluster Resources’ Moab and SGI high performance systems, enable customers to meet their performance and utilization goals as well as simplify their workload management. The graphical user interface of the Web Access Portal adds ease of use and allows new users to quickly become productive in their environment. “SGI and Cluster Resources have been providing customers with joint HPC solutions for several years,” said Scott Hurst, director, Alliance Business Development at Cluster Resources. “Enhancing the partnership is a natural extension of our strategy and provides a more powerful workload management and orchestration solution for our mutual customers who are looking to leverage their HPC infrastructure and help drive down costs of managing workload across disparate systems and increase their ROI on the systems they purchase from SGI.”