Hardware
Hardware
Building a Hadoop cluster? Start with these five vendors
IBM Cluster System
Drive performance while reducing energy and space with integrated cluster solutions
IBM offers two families of cluster systems and a full portfolio of software to optimize performance and manageability. IBM Cluster Systems Homepage
IBM Intelligent Cluster
An integrated, factory-built and -tested cluster solution with comprehensive warranty service for all cluster components including third-party options.
IBM Power Systems high performance computing
IBM POWER6 and IBM POWER7 symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers and Blue Gene, running AIX or Linux. Power Systems HPC servers are highly scalable cluster solutions for large-scale computational simulation and modeling.
Intel® Cluster Ready
Clusters Made Simpler. Intel® Cluster Ready is an architecture and a program that makes it easier to gain the performance advantages of High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. Developed with hardware and software vendors, Intel® Cluster Ready lets you match your HPC applications to today’s leading platforms and components. Pre-configured cluster solutions are delivered ready to run, so you can unleash more parallel performance faster. Learn about the Partner Program. Intel® Cluster Ready Homepage
HP Cluster Platforms
HP Cluster Platforms are now available with the innovative ProLiant Gen8 servers featuring HP ProActive Insight architecture, the new Intel Xeon processors, the E5-2600 family and fast FBR InfiniBand HP Cluster Platforms Homepage
Top 500 The List
The TOP500 project was launched in 1993 to improve and renew the Mannheim supercomputer statistics, which had been in use for seven years. Our simple TOP500 approach does not define “supercomputer” as such, but we use a benchmark to rank systems and to decide on whether or not they qualify for the TOP500 list. The benchmark we decided on was Linpack, which means that systems are ranked only by their ability to solve a set of linear equations, A x = b, using a dense random matrix A. Therefore, any supercomputer – no matter what its architecture is – can make it into the TOP500 list, as long as it is able to solve a set of linear equations using floating point arithmetic. Top 500 Homepage
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