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Altair Aims to Ease Simulation With PBS Pro 11.2

By Ralph | Published February 3, 2012

This week Altair announced released a new Compute Manager and PBS Desktop applications. Designed to streamline engineering workflow within an enterprise, the new software allows engineers submit jobs through a Web-based interface, manage workloads, and immediately review and download the results.

The release of Compute Manager and PBS Desktop marks the beginning of the next level of efficiency and ease for engineers engaged in high-performance computing for everything from crash analysis to animation and weather prediction,” said Mahalingam. “Simulations originate on many types of devices these days, and Altair’s high-performance computing tools focus on helping engineers use the resources at their fingertips in a very user-centric way. We are making the process of managing simulation projects more intuitive, more natural, and more efficient.”

With this new release, can use the enhanced graphical interface in PBS Pro 11.2 scales submit jobs on large clusters and obtain maximum value from their computing infrastructure. Read the Full Story.

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Video: Puppet Labs Datacenter Automation

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 16, 2012

In this video, Luke Kanies of Puppet Labs describes the company’s datacenter automation and configuration management tool..

Puppet Labs’ IT automation software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from handfuls of nodes on-premise to tens of thousands in the cloud. Puppet powers thousands of companies, including Twitter, Yelp, eBay, Zynga, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Google, Disney, Citrix, Oracle, and Viacom.

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Slidecast: IPSoft Overview – Autonomic IT Management

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 9, 2012

In this video, Jonathan Crane presents: IPSoft Overview - Autonomic IT Management. Learn more at: http://ipsoft.com

The IT infrastructure of tomorrow will not be managed by people, but by expert systems.

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Slidecast: Adaptive Computing: Intelligent Workload Management

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 15, 2011

In this slidecast video, Brady Kimball and Ken Nielson from Adaptive Computing present: Intelligent Workload Management. The company recently released version 4.0 of their Torque Workload Manager, and Nielson describes the new features of the software.

Adaptive Computing HPC products power a range of intelligent solutions and use cases that create a self-optimizing and dynamic HPC environment that is able to adapt and process more workload in less time with existing resources and less management overhead. A summary of some of those key solutions and use cases are below with a link to the product that enables the solution so you can learn more and evaluate the solution for your organization.

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Boeing Consolidates on Bright Cluster Manager

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 6, 2011

Today Bright Computing announced that Boeing has acquired a site license for Bright Cluster Manager that enables the use of Bright Cluster Manager on any x86-based hardware platform throughout the company.

Bright Cluster Manager’s rapid rebooting across nodes has reduced our node provisioning by a factor of ten, and it’s done with a few mouse-clicks,” stated Greg Siekas, High Performance Computing Technical Lead at Boeing.

This is a huge win for Bright, especially with all the churn going on behind the scenes as IBM moves to complete its acquistion of Platform Computing. Read the Full Story.

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Video: Boundary Startup Does Real-Time Monitoring as a Service. Instantly.

By RichB | Published November 15, 2011

In this video, Ben Black from from the new Startup Boundary describes how the company’s software helps you make sense of your network. I’ve seen the demo, and I must say it’s an impressive platform for visualizing, exploring, and troubleshooting data networks.

We’ve developed a platform that allows organizations to visualize, explore and troubleshoot today’s most dynamic networks,” said Ben Black, Boundary CEO and co-founder. “Our goal is to offer a simple, yet massively scalable, solution that gives ops teams instant access to their network data as a service. We’re excited to bring our offering to market and optimistic about our growth potential going forward.”

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Out of Capacity? Try Cloudbursting with Bright Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published November 9, 2011

Last week had the opportunity to sit down with the folks from Bright Computing to talk about their cluster management software. In the wake of a recent announcement that IBM will soon acquire Platform Computing, Bright sees a real opportunity to align with some of Platform partners who might be averse to doing business with Big Blue.

Bright is not sitting still either. This week the company announced the Bright Cluster Manager 6.0, which supports a new capability “cloud bursting.”

For organizations not currently using HPC, Bright Computing’s approach makes HPC more accessible by lowering the barrier to entry. For those already using clusters, Bright makes it fast and easy to extend and manage these systems in the cloud, enabling customers to dynamically add capacity or GPU capabilities as needed.

How does cloud bursting work? In partnership with Amazon Web Services, Bright Cluster Manager enables customers to create new clusters in the cloud, or add cloud-based nodes to existing clusters. With Bright Cluster Manager 6.0, onsite clusters are automatically cloud-ready, at no extra cost.

Bright opened my eyes to a different approach to cloud bursting,” said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research. “Bright has found a way to implement cloud as an extension of the local cluster, with a single, consistent interface.”

Bright Computing will demonstrate cloud bursting at Booth #2734 at SC11. Read the Full Story.

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Dell Lifecycle Controller Speeds Cluster Deployment

By Rich Brueckner | Published October 20, 2011

Anil Maurya writes that the Dell Lifecycle Controller provides a simplified method for the installation or updating of drivers on a cluster with heterogeneous platforms.

Dell Lifecycle Controller (LCC) is an onboard systems management device that is a part of the iDRAC express and above on the 11th generation Dell servers. The Lifecycle Controller (LCC) includes a 1GB managed and persistent storage that embeds systems management features like driver update, firmware update, RAID configuration etc. in addition to the iDRAC features. The LCC contains a driver repository for supported Operating Systems i.e. Windows, Redhat Linux, SuSe Linux etc. Remote Systems management is further enhanced with LCC as it completely eliminates the need for any media-based tools due to the integrated persistent storage. Users can further upgrade to iDRAC Enterprise and vFlash for advanced iDRAC features.


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IBM to Acquire Platform Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published October 11, 2011

Today IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a Canadian vendor of cluster and grid management software for distributed computing environments. While financial terms were not disclosed, the acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2011.

IBM considers the acquisition of Platform Computing to be a strategic element for the transformation of HPC into the high growth segment of technical computing and an important part of our smarter computing strategy,” said Helene Armitage, general manager, IBM Systems Software. “This acquisition can be leveraged across IBM as we enhance our IBM offerings and solutions, providing clients with technology that helps draw insights to fuel critical business decisions or breakthrough science.”

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Video: PBS Professional Looks Out 20 Years on Scalability

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 26, 2011

In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works at Altair Engineering. The company recently celebrated the 20th anniversay of PBS Professional, Altair’s EAL3+ security certified, commercial-grade HPC workload management solution.

Recorded at the ISC’11 Conference in Hamburg.

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Robert Clyde Joins Adaptive Computing as New CEO

By RichB | Published July 19, 2011

Today Adaptive Computing announced that Robert Clyde has joined the company as its chief executive officer to support the company’s continued growth in cloud and HPC markets. Clyde brings more than 25 years of industry experience to Adaptive Computing, including executive positions at Symantec, AXENT, and Raxco, Inc.

I am thrilled to join the Adaptive Computing team,” said Robert Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “I’m impressed with our passionate and industry-leading customer base, our innovative technology and our expert employees’ customer-centric attitude which plays a vital role in the company’s ongoing success. The market opportunity for Adaptive Computing is tremendous, and we’re poised to transform cloud, data center and HPC environments with the ongoing adoption of real-time infrastructure.”

At insideHPC, we believe that this is a good move for Adaptive, one that positions the company for growth. In late 2010, Adaptive Computing received $14 million in Series A round financing led by Intel Capital, along with Tudor Ventures and EPIC Ventures. Read the Full Story.

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At Drexler, Bright Computing Frees Up Users to Focus on Science

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 15, 2011

This week Bright Computing announced that the company’s Cluster Manager software is being on Drexel’s most powerful supercomputer — freeing scientists to focus on leading-edge cosmology research instead of managing their complex GPU-based system. The Drexel system is capable of delivering 176,514 GFLOPS of GPU performance, thanks to 68,352 NVIDIA GPU cores and 48 TB RAID disk storage.

Bright Cluster Manager was a good choice for us,” stated Dr. Steve McMillan. “I’m a scientist, not a system manager. The Bright GUI is intuitive and extremely easy to use. I can do everything I need to do on the system remotely — I almost never visit our cluster. I get alerts when attention is required, and am able to hand off much of the overall system management with confidence to an enthusiastic undergraduate.”

The Drexler supercomputer was developed by Advanced HPC, a provider of HPC platforms and Linux clusters. Read the Full Story.

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Video: Adaptive Computing’s HPC Evolution

By RichB | Published July 5, 2011

In this video, Adaptive Computing COO Michael Jackson describes the HPC Evolution towards Gen4, a future capability where entire datacenters can be managed as a single resource. Recorded at the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg, June 22, 2011.

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MOAB-CON User Group Event Comes to Hamburg June 17

By Rich Brueckner | Published June 15, 2011

Adaptive Computing will be hosting their first-ever European MOAB-CON user group event on Friday, June 17 in Hamburg. The one-day conference will feature packed with information to help users optimize workload management and scheduling. In addition to technology and roadmap updates, they will also feature case study presentations from Moab users, attendees will have direct access to Adaptive Computing Senior executives, account managers and support personnel. Register now.

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Video: Opscode Hosted Chef Goes GA for the Cloud

By RichB | Published June 14, 2011

In this slidecast, Opscode co-founder & CEO Jesse Robbins discusses the company’s latest offering called Hosted Chef.

“Thousands of companies have been successfully automating their businesses with Opscode’s Hosted Chef and we are proud to deliver the industry’s first SLA, relentlessly focused on providing 24/7 customer support and the ability to immediately deploy common web applications stacks in the cloud,” said Adam Jacob, co-founder and chief product officer of Opscode.

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