No cluster is too small or budget constrained for Advanced Clustering's HPC cluster solutions.  No matter the the size, we still offer all of the same level of services and personal support.  This customer had a very limited budget so we provided a system based on our economical single processor Pinnacle 1X3202 rackmount servers.

Find out why this customer and so many others choose to purchase an Apex high performance compute (HPC) cluster from Advanced Clustering.

8x Compute Nodes - Pinnacle 1X3202

• 1U rackmount chassis
• Single Xeon Quad-Core X3350 processor
• 8GB of RAM
• 160GB SATA disk drive

1 x Head Node - Pinnacle 2X5401H8

• 2U rackmount chassis with 8 hotswap drives
• Dual Xeon Quad-Core X5420 processors
• 8TB of raw storage space
• Hardware RAID array with battery backup
• Configured as a double-pairty RAID6 array

Gigabit Switching System

• 24 port 10/100/1000BaseT gigabit non-blocking ethernet switch
• Category 6 ethernet cables

Rack and Power Distribution

• 42U high quality cabinet
• 1U 20A/120V network managed PDUs

Services and Support

• Advanced Clustering's Standard Advance Ship warranty for 3 years
• Life-time technical support

Software

• CentOS v5 for x86_64
• Advanced Clustering's Cloner
• Advanced Clustering's Breakin
• Advanced Clustering's ACT dir including:
  • MPICH2
  • MVAPICH
  • OpenMPI
  • Ganglia
  • Torque
• Advanced Clustering's Beo Utils