Intel Cluster Ready
Aurora systems are Intel® Cluster Ready certified. This means in the first place being part of a vast, ever-growing community of OEM, ISV, developers and users around the world. By offering certified Intel® Cluster Ready systems, Aurora makes purchasing, deployment and operation of large or small systems easier and quicker. In this way Eurotech can provide customers with greater confidence in HPC systems adoption. Customers can easily select an Aurora system, and put it to use immediately, without interoperability issues. Being ICR, Aurora machines are interoperable with registered applications from numerous leading ISVs. This means a wider customer target range who can benefit from Aurora ICR HPC systems running ICR applications. Using Intel® Cluster Checker, Aurora system management is simplified for customers, at the same time enabling Eurotech to accelerate intervention in case of a customer support call.
Eurotech is proud to be the recipient of the Intel® Cluster Ready Voyager Award 2009: "The Intel Cluster Ready certification ensures that Aurora provides a hardware, software, manageability and functionality basis that eliminates the complexity traditionally found in HPC clusters" said Dr. Herbert Cornelius, director of Advanced Computing Center, Intel EMEA. "Crucial aspects, such as software compatibility and completeness, interoperability and robust system management are ensured in an Intel Cluster Ready environment such as the one provided by the Aurora cluster solution."
Intel® Cluster Ready makes available to end users and OEM a vast selection of
applications:
ICR applications
Installation Flexibility
Aurora takes HPC one step forward: noiseless operation and high density permit installation of large computing systems in sites which could not otherwise be used for this purpose. With liquid flowing inside them, Aurora systems do not shake, rattle, or make noise. They are silent, good looking and can be easily accessed for upgrades, checks, maintenance. No more ear protection needed to swap boards or to plug cables. Being so simple to install, Aurora systems can be considered for normal working environments, such as offices. Just imagine working in the same room where
an ordinary cluster is installed, by comparison! Aurora HPC systems also offer users the chance to access vast computing facilities also when operating in space constrained locations. True, virtualization and remote access are well known tools, but running a computer in close vicinity of the user has enormous advantages in terms of access, ease of deployment, simplicity of upgrades and maintenance.
Research Institutions
The involvement of Eurotech in HPC does not begin with Aurora: several generations of computers have been designed and engineered by Eurotech. Many research institutions have been, and still are, in close contact with Eurotech, collaborating for new developments. The Aurora architecture features contributions from INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, a prominent Italian government research institution) researchers.