Red Hat HPC Solution

Red Hat has announced an agreement with Platform Computing to jointly offer a new product, the Red Hat HPC Solution that fully integrates Platform's Open Cluster Stack1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new offering provides users with an end-to-end solution with a range of tools necessary to deploy and manage an HPC cluster in a wide range of environments, from SMB to Enterprise.

The integrated HPC software stack includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, device drivers and interconnect support necessary for efficiently running a high-performance cluster, and also includes Platform's Lava-based job scheduler to schedule user workloads.

"Platform's 15 years of expertise deploying high-performance clusters, combined with the performance and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, provide a perfect technology match for customers looking for an HPC solution," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president, Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. "This agreement also enables us to tailor our existing enterprise solutions for smaller-sized customers, so this new and rapidly growing HPC market can enjoy the benefits of open source software."

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"Platform is excited to partner with Red Hat to reach new markets for HPC solutions," said Songnian Zhou, CEO, Platform Computing. "Organisations from Enterprise to SMB will be able to adopt open source solutions that are fully supported and easy to use. This agreement supports Platform's strategy to enable organisations to improve time to results and reduce computing costs when deploying cluster and grid software solutions."