Cluster Solutions Center services

 

T-Platforms Cluster Solutions Center (CSC) provides businesses and organizations with easy access to the bleeding edge HPC technologies.
In June 2003, T-Platforms in collaboration with the Program Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences opened the Cluster Solution Center in Moscow where clients can assess how various solution configurations meet their specific needs. CSC offers a full range of services for HPC customers, from a turn-key solution project design to achieve best possible price/performance ratio, up to development and optimization of system management and customer application software, education and consulting of customers' engineers, rental of machine time and data center infrastructure facilities.

 

What is CSC

 

  • T-Platforms R&D department, which enables us to stay tuned for the novel and most advanced HPC technologies
  • Customer service center, providing our customers with hardware resources, professional service and expertise to work out an optimized turn-key HW/SW solution which would meet their specific needs and requirements
  • Training&Consulting сenter, offering abroad range of professional services to HPC users

CSC expertise

 

CSC engineers accumulated vast experience in building complex cluster environments incorporating the latest cluster technologies and tuned for maximum sustained performance. Our expertise includes:

 

  • Processor architectures: IA32, AMD64, EM64T and Cell
  • Interconnects: InfiniBand, PathScale InfiniPath, Myrinet, SCI, Quadrics, Gigabit Ethernet
  • Linux OS and its SUSE and RedHat distributions
  • Development tools: GNU, PGI, Intel, Absoft, PathScale
  • MPI implementations: MPICH and its adapted versions, LAM, Scali MPI Connect
  • Cluster management and monitoring software and hardware
  • C/C++/Fortran and MPI
  • SAN and NAS storage systems
  • Installation and tuning of user application software for specific markets, such as LS-DYNA, StarCD, CFX-5, Oracle RAC and other

 

CSC professional services

 

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  • HPC project consulting— CSC engineers will help customers to work out an optimal hardware and software configuration of an HPC system to provide the best possible price/performance ratio, robust reliability and maximum sustained performance of user applications
  • Project development— we will develop a complete turn-key integrated HW/SW HPC solution for data processing and storage, including the on-site infrastructure. This service is free for T-Platforms HPC solution customers.
  • Project integration— we build HPC systems based on third party developed hardware from the leading vendors such as HP, Sun, and others, optimized for customer specific needs
  • Testing— CSC customers can test their applications performance with different architectures and interconnects, and evaluate the sustained performance of their software on T-Platforms cluster and server solutions
  • Tuning and optimization— CSC engineers will install and tune cluster system and management software, and ensure maximum performance of customer application software
  • Adaptation— we will help our customers to adapt their applications to the cluster environment and optimize their performance with T-Platforms HPC solutions
  • Integration into customer's infrastructure— CSC engineers will integrate the T-Platforms solution into the existing customer's infrastructure
  • Customer's HPC systems tuning— CSC will provide the required level of performance of customer's HPC systems based on third-party developed hardware solutions
  • Machine time for rent— our customers can rent CSC hardware resources to run their jobs
  • CSC data center infrastructure facilities for rent— our customers can deploy their systems at CSC and use them remotely, while receiving a high level of security, 24×7 availability, support and maintenance of their systems