Comments on: SGI integrates eXludus Grid Optimizer in life sciences offering http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-33135 John Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:22:55 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-33135 Benoit - thanks for clearing that up! You guys should do a 411 on eXludus for the site; check out past 411s to get a feel for the format by clicking on the categories menu under the header and selecting "The 411". Benoit – thanks for clearing that up! You guys should do a 411 on eXludus for the site; check out past 411s to get a feel for the format by clicking on the categories menu under the header and selecting “The 411″.

]]> By: Benoit http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-33018 Benoit Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:56:54 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-33018 John is right in that our "magic" is a result of our virtualized resource allocation layer. But there are in fact two versions of our Grid Optimizer technology. One was specifically designed for embarrassingly parallel applications, as John points out, and one that also caters to any workload type where we can do just as well with 10'000 individual jobs submitted by 10'000 users. What Chris is referring to is our other product, RepliCator, that has been frequently used by Life Science centers. Although originally designed for re-provisioning large numbers of virtual images in parallel, it has also been used for pre-staging data and automatically synchronizing with any workload manager. What's interesting is that both technologies can be combined so that very large problem / cluster sizes can be handled at peak performance. John is right in that our “magic” is a result of our virtualized resource allocation layer. But there are in fact two versions of our Grid Optimizer technology. One was specifically designed for embarrassingly parallel applications, as John points out, and one that also caters to any workload type where we can do just as well with 10’000 individual jobs submitted by 10’000 users.

What Chris is referring to is our other product, RepliCator, that has been frequently used by Life Science centers. Although originally designed for re-provisioning large numbers of virtual images in parallel, it has also been used for pre-staging data and automatically synchronizing with any workload manager.

What’s interesting is that both technologies can be combined so that very large problem / cluster sizes can be handled at peak performance.

]]> By: Chris http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-32839 Chris Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:33:24 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/06/sgi-integrates-exludus-grid-optimizer-in-life-sciences-offering/#comment-32839 They do a lot with datastaging technology, they can move data to a node faster than a straight scp or rsync. I believe they use some method of broadcasting the data across the network. For "very specific" jobs it can give a performance boost, I think blast type jobs they can make a difference. They have many other products as well. They do a lot with datastaging technology, they can move data to a node faster than a straight scp or rsync. I believe they use some method of broadcasting the data across the network. For “very specific” jobs it can give a performance boost, I think blast type jobs they can make a difference. They have many other products as well.

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