Aethia HPC Suite

Aethia HPC Suite is a complete software platform for the cluster computing. It is fully equipped with all the necessary instruments to use with success Linux based systems. Aethia HPC Suite is easy to use both by administrators and users, places a complete e productive working environment at everyone's disposal.

Aethia HPC Suite differs from other cluster management software thanks to the Aethia Beolive technology, that provides a simple user interface for the administration and the remote cluster use.

Cluster computing technology allows a computing power with an excellent price/quality ratio, it is an open, accessible and well documented technology. To make the most of it, it is important to have instruments that enable to manage correctly the typical requirements of the cluster system. High Performance Computing cluster model mentioned is the following:

Aethia HPC Suite product results from several years' experience and provides an integrated set of software to answer the principals needs of installation, administration, use and maintenance of Linux based cluster systems, that can be widen to specific needs.

Aethia HPC Suite standard version is open-source software based, though out to be accessible to any kind of user, including small and medium size companies, universities and research centres. For specific requirements or for enterprise level solutions, commercial technologies integration is possible.

The Aethia HPC Suite main components are :

• Linux operative system (Debian GNU/Linux, Novell SUSE or Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
• Middleware for cluster-computing
• software images management for computing nodes (System Imager, FAI)
• network and parallel filesystem (NFS, Lustre, PVFS2, GPFS *)
• centralized user accounts (LDAP)
• "parallel" administration commands (C3, Kanif, cssh)
• monitoring (Ganglia, Nagios)
• "out of band" control of computing nodes (IPMI)
• remote management (Beolive)
• High Performance Computing tools
• job management (Torque, SGE, PBS Pro *, LSF *)
• optimized compilers (GCC, Intel C/C++/Fortran *, Portland PGI *)
• libraries for scientific computing (LAPACK, BLAS, GSL)
• data processing and visualization tools (Octave, Scilab, R, Matlab *)
• IDEs for software development (Eclipse, KDevelop)
• parallel programming (OpenMPI, MPICH2, OpenMP)
• parallel debuggers (Eclipse PPT, TotalView *)

(*) Optional commercial software

Aethia HPC Suite is supplied with all Aethia's clusters, and can be install on demand on your hardware.