Advanced Clustering | Intel Cluster Ready

Custom configurations

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Intel Cluster Ready

How do you ensure that your next Intel based system will work right out of the box - Intel Cluster Ready. Advanced Clustering has teamed up with Intel to provide certified Intel Cluster Ready systems, which will allow you to start computing more rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively. Devloped collaboratively with hardware and software vendors, the Intel Cluster ready program ensures that all pieces of your new cluster work in conjunction with each other. Giving you the piece of mind that when your cluster is uncrated and you plug it in, it works! Check out the tabs below on how the program works and how we will make it easier for you to buy, deploy and manage your new Apex Cluster.

What does Cluster Ready do for you?

Find the right configuration, right away:
- Forget trying to pick and choose the right components for your cluster. Intel has developed a set of stringent tests that each component must pass before being certified as Cluster Ready.
- Spend less time in the discovery phase of your cluster purchase — Advanced Clustering and Intel have already done the leg work to ensure that each aspect of your new cluster will act as a cohesive unit.
Know that it works:
- From the beginning of your purchasing experience to delivery of your cluster, you can rest assured that your solution will work out of the box.
- Software tools such as Intel Cluster Checker help to ensure those components continue to work together, delivering a high level of quality and a low total cost of ownership over the cluster's lifetime.
Solve new problems:
- Realize the benefits of a high performance cluster faster by ensuring application and system interoperability with a certified Cluster Ready system.
- A certified Cluster Ready System simply is designed so that you can get your job done efficiently and hassle-free!

Software

Intel has worked closely with many software vendors to ensure that their applications will work right out of the box on Cluster Ready hardware. Below is the current list of Cluster Ready applications.

Company	Product / Description
Accelrys	Discovery Studio Materials Studio
Altair Engineering	RADIOSS (see additional requirements)
ANSYS	ANSYS Fluent
CD-Adapco	STAR-CD (see additional requirements) STAR-CCM+
EM Software & Systems - S.A. (Pty) Ltd	FEKO Suite
ESI Group	PAM-CRASH (see additional requirements)
Flow Science, Inc.	FLOW-3D/MP
ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd.	ICON FOAMpro (see additional requirements)
LSTC – Livermore Software Technology Corporation	LS-DYNA
MAGMA Giessereitechnologie GmbH	MAGMA (see additional requirements)
The Mathworks	Distributed Computing Toolbox and Distributed Computing Engine
Metacomp Technologies, Inc.	CFD++
MSC.Software	MD Nastran MSC Marc
MTM Software
Schlumberger	Petrel Seismic Server (see additional requirements)
Siemens PLM Software	NX Nastran (see additional requirements)
simufact	simufact.forming (see additional requirements)
SIMULIA	Abaqus
Software Cradle Co., Ltd.	SC/Tetra STREAM
Wolfram Research, Inc.	gridMathematica

System Configurations

As an Intel Cluster Ready partner, Advanced Clustering uses the Intel Cluster Checker to validate each new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster configuration and verify each copy of a cluster “recipe,” or reference design.

Intel Cluster Checker examines the cluster at both the node and cluster level, making sure all components work together and can deliver optimal performance. It assesses firmware, kernel, storage, and network settings, and it conducts high-level tests of node and network performance using the Intel® MPI Benchmarks, STREAM, the HPC Challenge benchmark (HPCC), and other benchmarks. New clusters are certified as Intel Cluster Ready only when Intel Cluster Checker confirms that the cluster will perform as it should, right out of the box.

To ensure that your cluster will continue to work seamlessly through it's life time, Cluster Checker will analyze it's configuration to be certain it has remained with in certification. If there is a problem, Cluster Checker will help you analyze and correct any issues quickly.

Advanced Clustering's Apex cluster is a great fit for small to medium sized departmental clusters and has been certified* under the Intel Cluster Ready program. Don't worry about being pinned into a cookie cutter solution, you will be able to configure your system with Intel Xeon 5500 processors, hard drive size and memory quantity that you need. Apex clusters also come pre-installed our innovative cluster management and software tools. Call and talk to one of our cluster experts today! 866.802.8222

*Certificate Number: 20091210001