Get your share of the fast-growing market for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters – including software solutions, systems, system software, and hardware components. Intel® Cluster Ready provides tools, resources, and a standard, easy-to-follow reference architecture to help you expand your role in the HPC ecosystem.
Empower your customers with the productivity and performance advantages of HPC clusters based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors – and shrink time-to-market, reduce support costs, and drive revenues as you do it.
Gain new customers by expanding the ecosystem for clusters. Increase revenues by making your software compatible with an established ecosystem based on a consistent Linux cluster platform. Intel Cluster Ready makes it easier to design, develop, validate, and support system software for Linux*-based HPC clusters, so you can accelerate development and increase licensing opportunities. Focus more on software innovation and less on managing ecosystem relationships. Increase the return on your development efforts and reduce the need to test and support for multiple systems.
Develop Faster for a Standard Platform: Intel Cluster Ready Reference Architecture
Intel Cluster Ready defines a consistent, flexible platform architecture for HPC clusters. The Intel Cluster Ready reference architecture addresses the entire cluster environment, including requirements for hardware, operating systems, provisioning, resource management, and more. Based on the Linux* operating system kernel and incorporating industry standards and best practices, the Intel Cluster Ready specification defines a set of base requirements but leaves plenty of room for innovation once the base specification is met. The specification supports any number of Linux distributions.
System software vendors provide vital components and innovation that make clusters more robust and more manageable. By offering a common platform architecture, Intel Cluster Ready makes it easier for system software providers to innovate and add value, while maintaining compliance with a standards-based specification. Systems and components are certified for compliance by OEMs and system integrators, enabling applications on one implementation of the architecture to be moved to another with high confidence they will work correctly.
Participate in a Robust EcosystemInteroperability is a critical customer benefit of the Intel Cluster Ready architecture. As an Intel Cluster Ready system software partner, your software is included by OEMs and system integrators into their cluster designs, which they certify to ensure interoperability with the full range of certified Intel Cluster Ready systems. As a result, customers can run any registered Intel Cluster Ready application on any certified Intel Cluster Ready system without rebuilding the software stack or reconfiguring hardware.
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