PREMIERE IT CONSULTING AND SERVICES PROVIDER OFFERS WINDOWS HPC SERVER 2008 TURNKEY SOLUTION

“HPC is a big piece of our business and with Windows HPC Server 2008 we are suddenly able to tap into a broad market. We believe it is going to be the fastest growing segment of our business.”

Deepak Khosla, Founder and CEO, X-ISS

Windows® HPC Server 2008 combines the X-ISS has extensive experience in power of the ® platform configuring, tuning and submitting with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to benchmarks for the TOP500 list and works help improve the productivity and reduce closely with to help customers the complexity of your HPC environment. optimize their cluster for TOP500 Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently consideration. scale to thousands of processing cores PARTNER and provides a comprehensive set Windows HPC Server 2008 Application of deployment, administration, and Benchmarking PROFILE monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, While the TOP500 benchmarks provide a manage, and integrate with your existing common performance metric, customers X-ISS is a premiere IT consulting infrastructure. are interested in how their workload will and services provider that perform on Windows HPC Server 08. specializes in turnkey HPC X-ISS has been a leader in Windows cluster X-ISS works with many different software solutions. solutions since 2003. Areas of delivered vendors to design and execute benchmarks solutions include: that compare performance on Windows X-ISS’ expertise in designing, and other platforms or with various deploying, managing, and Multi-boot Windows HPC Server 2008 and interconnects. benchmarking clusters of all SLES Clusters types and sizes, including various In cooperation with Microsoft, X-ISS has Windows HPC Server 2008 Deployments interconnects, cluster managers, developed a multi-boot cluster proof of Since 2003, X-ISS has deployed over resource managers and popular concept with Windows HPC Server 2008 35,000 cluster nodes from eight node HPC applications can help lower and SLES. With a push of a button a cluster desk side clusters to entire datacenters total cost of ownership and becomes either a HPC Server 08 cluster or with thousands of nodes. X-ISS has a administration while optimizing a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server cluster. proven track record with major OEMs and performance of both hardware Microsoft in delivering these solutions and applications. Hybrid HPC Environments nationwide. Each deployment, regardless X-ISS collaborates with Clustercorp to of size, benefits from X-ISS’ exceptional provide hybrid clusters utilizing Rocks+ experience and commitment to customer and Moab to dynamically shift between service and quality in delivering complete Windows and Linux compute environments solutions. based on workload. Managed Cluster Services TOP500 Benchmarking Even though Windows HPC Server 2008 The TOP500 project ranks and describes operates in a in a familiar Windows the 500 most powerful publicly-known environment, there can be a significant computer systems in the world. The list has investment in personnel and training to been compiled twice a year since 1993, and support large clustered environments. aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking X-ISS offers complete managed cluster and detecting trends in high-performance services to solve staffing, management, computing. Rankings are based on HPL, utilization and cost issues. a portable implementation of the High- Performance LINPACK benchmark for X-ISS will assess your cluster, remediate any distributed-memory computers. deficiencies, setup cluster management services, applications and queues, and provide ongoing management to insure it remains efficient and at peak performance.

Cluster Health Checks X-ISS will provide a health check to validate your entire cluster infrastructure to ensure you’re getting the most effective use of your investment. Scheduled health checks insure against performance degradation, keeping your cluster operating at top speed. WINDOWS HPC SERVER 2008

Windows HPC Server 2008 helps enable A typical Windows HPC Server 2008 architecture. The head node controls and broader adoption of HPC, and increases mediates all access to the cluster resources, acts as the single point of management, productivity by providing numerous end-user, deployment, and job scheduling for the cluster. administrator, and developer features and tools, including: Job scheduler. The Windows HPC Increased quality and faster than before • End users experience a rich and integrated Server 2008 job scheduler is multi- time-to-insight. environment that scales easily from the core aware, allowing sophisticated When running Windows HPC Server desktop application to large datacenter scheduling by core, by socket, or by 2008 cluster, the end result is faster clusters. server. than before time-to-insight and higher levels of end-user productivity. • Administrators can use Microsoft • Developers can use familiar management tools to centrally manage development tools, such as Reliable HPC performance the Windows Server infrastructure. the native parallel debugger in Windows HPC Server 2008 and Windows HPC Server 2008 includes Microsoft Visual Studio®, to develop X-ISS combined solutions deliver wizards, tools, built-in management and troubleshoot parallel programs, predictable, sustained performance, consoles, and a To Do List to simplify the including support for standard and the reliability expected from both provisioning of compute nodes. interfaces such as OpenMPI, Windows, and X-ISS solutions. Message Passing Interface (MPI), Administrative groups. Administrators and Web Services. Reduced cost can create groups based on hardware, Customers can reduce the costs software, or networking characteristics. BENEFITS and complexities of deploying and Groups allow for simplified administration operating HPC clusters. Simpler HPC clusters and networks can reduce and allow optimal utilization by mapping Affordable, full-featured HPC power and cooling requirements, which jobs requirements to an appropriate set of Windows HPC Server 2008 brings can dramatically reduce the total cost servers. rapid deployment, management, and of cluster computing. IT integration to HPC at a price that Failover services. allows companies to easily adopt HPC Enterprise includes Failover Services. The applications. combination of Windows Failover Services ® ® and Microsoft SQL Server database Improved return on IT investments clustering provide head node redundancy Windows-based HPC helps ensure in the event of a hardware failure. that customers can fully exploit their existing Windows-based expertise and IT investments.

FURTHER INFORMATION

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