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NEW SCALI PRODUCT FEATURES INCREASED SCALABILITY FOR GRIDS
Scali announced the 4.3 release of their cluster management (Scali Manage) and
message passing interface (Scali MPI Connect) software. The latest version
includes support for enhanced scalability, new functionality and the ability
to gain greater visibility into cluster/Grid operations. The total solution
provides increased customer value for large scale Linux-clustering and Grid
computing with heterogeneous environments in demanding industries such energy,
defense, manufacturing and life sciences.
One of the design criteria for the release of version 4.3 of Scali Manage and
Scali MPI Connect was to further enhance scalability, manageability,
heterogeneous support and performance. In order to do this, the engineering
team at Scali put in place a rigorous program to drive improvements. Scali
Manage and Scali MPI Connect includes the following new offerings, built on
existing capabilities and third-party heterogeneity:
- Scalability to thousands of nodes: Enhanced scalability of Scali Manage and
Scali MPI Connect include increased efficiency of installation and
configuration on large clusters plus a high performance parallel shell
implementation that executes commands on over 1,200 nodes in less than five
seconds.
- Flexible grouping: Provides the ability to easily group resources in a
cluster or Grid environment such that systems can be treated as one or several
coherent images.
- Usage accounting: Provides the ability to account for the consumption of a
system's resources to support fully commercial services or internal
"customers" in a cost center environment.
- History view: Offers a visual representation and analysis of past
performance and system health.
- Torque integration: Offers batch queue management with increased
scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches.
- Flexible Licensing schemes: Floating Licenses simplify the administration
of licenses that are no longer locked to a specific machine. OEM Licensing
offers an easy to use approach to embedded solutions.
- Expanded InfiniBand Support and Performance: Offers broader commitment to
the InfiniBand platform by supporting software stacks from leading InfiniBand
vendors –- InfiniCon, Mellanox, Topspin and Voltaire. Performance tuning
exploits the full InfiniBand bandwidth and minimizes MPI overhead.
"The 4.3 release of Scali software continues to add value by enabling our
customers to more effectively manage large clusters, accelerate installation
and administration, gain visibility into cluster operations and ultimately
increase the return on their IT investment," said Hakon Bugge, chief
technology officer and founder of Scali. "Recent large cluster installations
have facilitated the process of further driving product scalability,
functionality and heterogeneous support for truly complex cluster and Grid
environments."
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