HPC and Cluster Management Software Designer to Support Intel MIC Accelerators

Platform Computing, a designer of cluster, grid and cloud management software, on Tuesday said it would support the Intel many integrated core architecture in Intel's upcoming Knights Corner products targeting high performance computing applications. Those, who will need the forthcoming MIC compute accelerators, will be able to simply install the cards into clusters powered the latest Platform Computing software.

The extreme impressed with the performance

"We have been in the extreme impressed with the performance and ease of use we've seen on the Intel MIC 'Knights Ferry' software development platform. We believe the Intel MIC architecture will be very attractive to Platform [software] users who want to get more performance out of their HPC clusters, without the need to rewrite their applications for a new architecture," said William Lu, director of product management for Platform Computing.

As a result of this innovation partnership, Platform LSF and Platform HPC users will be able to intelligently allocate and manage jobs on Intel MIC based on a number of factors just as the number of available cores, memory, error conditions and environmental temperature. Effectively, Intel MIC will be treated as additional computational resources. In a word, depending on management capabilities available on a set of given nodes, Platform LSF and Platform HPC can control the job resource usage to these nodes.

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