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Software
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
Cray has invested considerable time and resources to ensure a vibrant ISV ecosystem. Through this dedication to ISVs, our customers can rest assured that their applications run on the Cray CX1 supercomputer.
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HPC Operating Environments
To bring HPC capabilities to desktop-bound engineers and scientists, the Cray CX1 supercomputer offers multiple operating environments:
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
Cray and Microsoft have partnered extensively to create a superior out-of-the-box experience for the HPC user. The Cray CX1 system ships pre-configured with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 along with installation routines that make configuration and setup a simple and straightforward process.
The Cray CX1 supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2008 is an integrated solution stack that provides a simplified, common operating environment. This powerful combination offers consistent and integrated deployment, job submission, status and progress monitoring while delivering maximum compute performance and scalability, from workgroup HPC systems to some of the world's largest supercomputers, to the end user. Additionally, this scalable solution tightly integrates with existing desktop Windows infrastructures, allowing users to extend desktop technology and skills to the realm of HPC computing.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 integrates with Windows Active Directory, security technologies and management and deployment tools. It supports traditional HPC MPI applications, as well as new interactive and service-oriented parallel applications using Microsoft .NET platform. In addition, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 easily integrates with existing Windows and Unix environments, making it an ideal platform for developing and running advanced HPC applications, including support for a high performance networking stack, C/C++, MPI, MPI.Net, F#, C#, Fortran, advanced debugging and tracing tools, including Vampir, along with Windows Performance Toolkit.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is designed for enterprise deployments providing a cost-effective, flexible and scalable environment. It features support for shared cache and multi-core systems, kernel SMP locking enhancements for improved scalability and IPv4/IPv6 performance enhancements. RHEL supports very large high performance file systems with Global File System (GFS) and support for NFSv4. It is also interoperable with Microsoft Windows file and print (CIFS) systems through Samba. Finally, RHEL provides excellent compiler and debugging capabilities with GCC 4.1 and Glibc 2.4.
Cray Cluster Manager
Cray Cluster Manager is a "re-think" of how open clusters are deployed and managed. It is a complete, certified solution that includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage HPC clusters with ease. Powered by Platform Computing, Cray Cluster Manager is built for optimal performance and uptime, while offering management, support and update benefits that are simply not possible with other cluster management solutions. Benefits include:
- Fast, flexible cluster deployment
- Simple cluster management through an intuitive web management interface
- Optimal uptime and productivity – updates applied with no re-booting or re-installation
- Quickly and easily build high performance applications through a fully integrated commercial MPI
- Accelerated cluster performance with the integrated Platform LSF workload scheduler
- Build multi-boot clusters so that multi-OS needs are efficiently fulfilled
- Easily scale as your business needs grow
- Enterprise class support from Cray and Platform
Cray Cluster Manager
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