Supercomputers traditionally have been expensive, highly customised designs purchased by a select group of customers, but the industry is being overhauled by comparatively mainstream technologies such as Intel processors, InfiniBand high-speed...
Bringing the technology to NT allows users to configure NT clusters of up to 32 nodes and to manage up to 256 clusters from a single workstation. Service groups can be defined within a cluster where each service group represents an application and...
Because Itanium understands a completely different set of instructions from lower-end Intel processors, software must be rebuilt for the newer chips. The move will make it easier for Rocks users to add Itanium systems into clusters that use the...
The new PowerEdge 3250, first shown last April, is designed to use the Madison Itanium 2 in a 3-inch-high, rack-mount server designed for a specific application in high-performance computing clusters, the company said.
And its clustering software, Real Application Clusters (RAC), serves as the basis for the 10g grid features. Our RAC sales have grown more than 60 per cent this quarter and about 60 per cent for the year," Ellison said.
The database giant also dropped the entry price point for the Real Application Clusters (RAC) feature to $15,000 per processor, the price of Oracle's midlevel database offering, called Oracle Standard Edition.