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Mountain View Data, Inc. (MVD), a leading provider of Linux management framework software, today announced support for the 64-bit AMD OpteronT processor architecture in High Performance Computing (HPC) markets. PowerCockpit's modular framework is already used to provision, configure, and manage 32-bit servers and desktops in enterprise datacenters and research laboratories around the world. "Provisioning and management solutions, like PowerCockpit from Mountain View Data, make it possible for HPC customers to deploy AMD Opteron processor-based clusters faster and reduce their cost of operation," said David Rich, AMD's director of High Performance Computing. "Powercockpit helps customers take full advantage of the simplified transition to 64-bit computing provided by the AMD Opteron processor, while protecting their investment in existing 32-bit applications." AMD Opteron processors enable HPC customers to rapidly build scientific models and perform simulations by providing a higher performance 64-bit architecture for floating-point calculations and scalable memory. AMD Opteron processors managed by PowerCockpit let HPC customers focus on their core job - research. AMD Opteron brings cost-effective compute power to HPC customers, reducing the time required to complete complex simulations and models. PowerCockpit enables this compute power to be provisioned rapidly across thousands of computers from a single console. All patches and updates for the operating system and applications can be automatically applied to all nodes in a cluster from a central management console. "HPC researchers can easily take advantage of the power of 64-bit computing by creating their own customer libraries of full Linux OS images and application stacks and automatically provisioning the images simultaneously to thousands of AMD Opteron processor-based nodes with multicast," said Cliff Miller, CEO of Mountain View Data.