High Performance Computing cluster

Your Personal Supercomputer!

The availability of a high computing power is a key factor in many scientific research fields: for example computational chemistry, molecular biology, high energy physics, meteorology, astrophysics, fluidodynamics, material sciences, economy. Aethia provides research groups with the most up-to-date and economical technology for creating high performance computing systems: the cluster-computing.

Our idea of cluster is a multiprocessor computer which is not only easy to use and able to internally integrate the most up-to-date hardware and software technologies, but even accessible as a simple unique server. For this reason, our Linux clusters are ready to use and equipped with software the user needs for working.

Advantages

High performances, provided by the high level of computation power attainable by the use of parallel computing and by the best available hardware technologies.
Turnkey solution, thanks to a software platform which meets all of customer's requirements for cluster-computing and which is ready for the installation and/or the development of customer's own computing applications.
Use easiness, the system is integrated in the department network, it appears to users as it was a single server and it supports the most common access methods (browser, file sharing, shell, XServer...).
Reduction in prices, thanks to the excellent price/performance ratio offered by Linux cluster technology, by the choice of carefully selected hardware products and by the use of open-source software without licence fee.
Scalability, thanks to the opportunity of increasing the number of nodes (up to hundreds of them) as needs increase, with investments approximately proportional to the number of new computers.
Flexibility, thanks to the high level of customization that open-source softwares enable by their large package and source availability.
Aid and support: from a hardware point of view with aid solutions which can be extended and customized (two years on-center base) and from a software point of view thanks to our qualified experts' experience; whenever it's possible, times and expenses are minimized by remote interventions.

Base software platform

Operating system	Linux (Denian, Fedora, Suse or other, on request)
Cluster computing middleware	OSCAR, Rocks, DCC
Administration	C3, Ganglia, Aethia Beoweb
Queue managment	OpenPBS/Torque, MAUI
Network and parallel filesystem	NFS, PVFS
Parallel computing	OpenMPI, MPICH, LAM-MPI, PVM
Programming	GNU GCC compiler (C, C++, Fortran 77/95, Java, Objective-C), LAPACK, BLAS e GSL libraries
Data processig and display	Octave, GnuPlot, Scilab, R

Hardware configurations

	Case: Rack 19" 1U, 1U-twin or 2U size
	Processors: Dual AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon quad core (32 or 64 bit)
	Memory: DDR2 ECC Reg.
	Hard-disk: SATA or SAS/SCSI, single or in RAID
	Optical recognition: CD/DVD reader or DVD writer slim size
	Network interface: N° 2 GigaEthernet 1 Gbit cards or Infinband
	Graphic card: integrated or dedicated SVGA

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