High Performance Computing
Scalar's Grid practice is focused on driving High Performance Computing (HPC) utilizing grids. Scalar has designed and deployed HPC solutions in research and development, electric design automation, animation, financial, manufacturing and retail customers.
In order to better utilize these solutions we develop solutions to address the issues commonly encountered including:
- How to effectively scale to thousands of nodes?
- How to effectively scale to PetaBytes of storage?
- How to improve network efficiency?
- How to speed up deployment?
- How to manage systems of this scale?
- How to allow for different configurations on the grid?
- How to power and cool datacenters to support these large systems?
Technology
Scalar works with leading edge technologies to drive these solutions. We focus on integrating easily manageable solutions for our customers.These solutions provide the best performance and can be easily maintained.
Our solutions have included:
- infiniband for networking and storage
- data center ethernet
- parallel filesystems for performance and scalability
- grid provisioners and schedulers
- management solutions for systems deployment and management
Resources
Sun
http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/index.jsp
Sun
http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/
SGI
http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/
Microsoft
http://windowshpc.net/Pages/Default.aspx
Voltaire
http://www.voltaire.com/
Cisco
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns708/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html
for Consulting
Scalar’s Professional Services group is a technology led organization. Our team of industry leading architects have decades of experience deploying complex infrastructure into mission-critical environments. We invest heavily in ongoing training and development of our staff to ensure they remain at the forefront of technological developments.
Testaments to the quality and ability of our delivery team are the bilateral Professional Services agreements we have with our key partners. This enables us to provide integration services for Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Red Hat, Symantec, and F5 either as Scalar or as their representatives. We have divided our Team into the following Practices: Systems Optimization, Data Management, Networks and Security, Virtualization, and Compute Grids.
Contact Scalar Professional Services today for more information.
