High Performance Computing (HPC)

As the first Red Hat Premier Partner in the UK you would expect us to recommend technology from the Red Hat ecosystem. However, we do so in this instance solely on the basis that MRG Grid provides High Throughput and High Performance Computing. And, it enables enterprises to move to a utility model of computing that  assists enterprises to achieve both higher peak computing capacity and higher IT utilisation by leveraging their existing infrastructure to build high performance grids.

Based on the Condor project, MRG Grid provides the most advanced and scalable platform for High Throughput and High Performance Computing, and offers capabilities such as:

• Scalability to run the largest grids in the world.
• Advanced features for handling priorities, workflows, concurrency limits, utilization, low latency scheduling, and more.
• Support for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from sub-second calculations to long-running, highly parallel (MPI) jobs.
• The ability to schedule to all available computing resources, including local grids, remote grids, virtual machines, idle desktop workstations, and dynamically provisioned cloud infrastructure.

MRG Grid also enables enterprises to move to a utility model of computing, where they can:

• Schedule a variety of applications across a heterogeneous pool of available resources.
• Automatically handle seasonal workloads with high efficiency, utilisation, and flexibility.
• Dynamically allocate, provision, or acquire additional computing resources for additional applications and loads.
• Execute across a diverse set of environments, ranging from virtual machines to bare-metal hardware to cloud-based infrastructure.

As the Leaders in Linux in the UK we have no hesitation in recommending Red Hat MRG Grid.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG enables customers to reach dramatically new performance and functional requirements in distributed computing through features like:

• Messaging: High-performance and reliable AMQP-compliant enterprise messaging.
• Realtime: Integrated Realtime Linux optimizations for deterministic, low-latency messaging, realtime grid scheduling of short tasks, and predictable enterprise workloads.
• Grid: Comprehensive grid computing capabilities, with the ability to rapidly schedule workloads into cloud infrastructure, virtualized environments across a local or remote grid and harvest idle capacity from idle workstations.
• High Performance Computing (HPC): Parallel computing capabilities for HPC. Support: Full, native, multi-language support, including: Java, JMS, .NET, C++, Ruby, and Python.
• Management: Unified management and configuration tools.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG offers unique performance, flexibility, freedom, interoperability, and new capabilities for enterprise computing.

• Unprecedented performance: MRG offers the highest performance for a variety of distributed computing tasks. MRG Messaging enables durable messaging throughput that is orders of magnitude better than previously possible. MRG Realtime provides deterministic low-latency for a variety of tasks. MRG Grid provides High Throughput Computing (HTC) capabilities for handling thousands of jobs.
• Architecture flexibility and freedom: MRG is fully configurable, allowing systems to be optimized for performance, throughput, reliability, or other characteristics. System designers and architects can choose what they want to optimize across a variety of distributed computing tasks.
• Interoperability and deployment freedom: MRG provides full interoperability with a variety of platforms and languages, including Windows and Solaris; Java, JMS, .NET, C++, Python, and more. This enables integration with legacy systems and applications as well as flexibility in developing new applications. By fully supporting AMQP, MRG is fully interoperable and interchangeable down to the wire level with other messaging products that support AMQP. Licensed under GPL v2, MRG provides transparency and freedom from lock-in.
• Revolutionary synergies: By providing a holistic platform for higher performance distributed computing, MRG provides many new capabilities for enterprise computing, including:
  • Deterministic low-latency messaging
  • Messaging-based reliable, low-latency job scheduling
  • Interoperability
  • Unified management
  • Reduced complexity and breakthrough value

And now new RHEL 6 GFS offers a Scalable File System.