March 2012

National Supercomputing Center (NSC) at Linköping University selects Go Virtual as supplier of three compute clusters.

The largest system, Triolith, consists of 1200 compute servers with a theoretical compute capacity of 338 TFlops and will be used for research. The two other systems consists of 240 and 72 compute servers and will be used by SMHI and Saab.

All three clusters are built on Hewlett-Packard’s scale-out solution, SL6500, which can host up to 8 servers in 4U rack space. Each server has two Intel Xeon E5-2660 8-core 2.2 GHz CPUs and four memory channels operating at 1600MHz. The server interconnect is Mellanox FDR.

Please read more at:
https://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.332494?l=sv

On March 13, the new version of MOAB HPC Suite and MOAB Cloud Suite was released. The new version comes with new features and deliver continued advancements in scalability, reliability and job management. Among the news:

– Increased scalability and reliability with TORQUE 4.0 – 1M+ jobs, 10k+ nodes, 1k+ users
– Updated self service portal and admin dashboard
– New MOAB web services for easier integration
– Better flexibility in accounting
– Additional database support

Please read more here

Go Virtual is looking for a technician to strengthen our High Performance Computing team.

The assignment includes:

– Installation and configuration of hardware, operating system, and software as well as system testing. You will be responsible for making our turn-key system solutions ready for customer delivery. You may also go onsite to customers to complete installation.

– You will also help our customers with support and problem resolution for their HPC-systems.

– You are based in Gothenburg, but you may sometimes travel to our customers in the Nordic region.

You have a basic understanding of computer systems (servers, storage, network) and have good Linux knowledge. Experience from HPC and/or the HP server product portfolio is a plus, but not a requirement.

You are a driving person taking own initiatives and you feel responsible for your work and our customers and keep deadlines and promises. You like working in a team, but can also work independently.

Please submit your application, including CV, to christofer.wanner@govirtual.se

On March 6, Hewlett-Packard announced the new generation of ProLiant servers, Gen8.

Among the highlights in Gen 8 are (see below for details):

– Support for the new Intel E5-2600 series of CPUs
– Support for PCI Express version 3.0
– Support for memory operating at 1600 MHz
– New flexible networking technology
– New system management engine

Intel Xeon E5-2600
The new ProLiant Gen8 servers supports the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series of CPUs (code name Sandy Bridge). The new CPUs come with either 2, 4, 6 or 8 cores in clock frequencies between 1.8 GHz and 3.3. GHz. The new AVX instructions which doubles the theoretical floating point performance per core is expected to boost the performance for many CAE applications.

Memory
Each CPU has four memory channels supporting up to three memory DIMMs (depending on server model). The memory operates at 1066, 1333, or 1600 MHz depending on configuration. The highest operating frequency of 1600 MHz is supported for up to two DIMMs per channel.

New Flexible Networkin Technology
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers offer a new networking technology – Flexible Networking Technology. It offers the customer the choice of 1 Gb, 10 Gb, or InfiniBand FlexibleLOM solutions depending on the workload. Obviously additional PCIe cards can be added (depending on server) to enable more ports.

New System Management Engine
The HP iLO Management Engine is a complete set of embedded features to support the full lifecycle of the server from initial deployment, through ongoing management, to service alerting and remote support. Main features:
– HP iLO: The core foundation which is now also possible to access from a smartphone
– HP Agentless Management: Built in hardware monitoring and alerting capacity which starts working at the moment a power cord and an Ethernet cable is connected.
– HP Active Health System: Providing diagnostic tools and scanners which are continously monitoring the system. It provides health and service alerts and makes it easy to upload information to service and support.
– HP Intelligent Provisioning: offers the ability for out-of-the-box single server deployment and configuration without the need for media.

Please contact us for more information