Oakland, CA, Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, May 13, 2008 - Clustercorp, the leader in commercial software and support for Rocks, announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 5.0, which includes Rocks+Support, Rocks+Rolls and Rocks+Moab. Rocks+ is the commercial version of the widely used Rocks Cluster Distribution – an end-to-end HPCC software solution, which includes the operating system, cluster management middleware, libraries, and compilers; all with enterprise class commercial support from leaders in the Rocks community.

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In just eleven days during 2007, the Stanford University High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center nearly doubled the performance of its existing compute system. The center leveraged certification methodology from the Intel Cluster Ready Program to fully implement a 1,696-core cluster solution. The solution integrates Clustercorp, Dell and Panasas technologies to give the center the flexibility to meet ever-expanding computational and application requirements and to enable Stanford researchers to achieve faster time-to-results. Steve Jones, the founder and manager of the Stanford HPC Center, writes about the design and deployment of this system.

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San Jose, CA, February 28, 2008 - Clustercorp, the leader in commercial software and support for the Rocks™ cluster distribution, announced availability of a new Absoft Roll as part of its Rocks+Rolls program. The Absoft Roll includes the Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite for x86_64 systems and is fully compatible with Rocks+ 4.3 and the open-source Rocks 4.3 software stack. The Absoft compiler suite includes optimizations for the complete line of AMD and Intel x64 processors, as well as specialized tuning for the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron ™ processors, which is particularly pertinent to the HPC Cluster community. Clustercorp developed the Absoft Roll to enhance its commercial Rocks+ product line,  and is making the Absoft Roll generally available to end-users as part of  its expanded support to the open source Rocks community.

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San Jose, CA, November 14, 2007 — Clustercorp, the leader in commercial software and support for the Rocks cluster distribution, announced the availability of Rocks+Moab, combining two best-of-breed HPC solutions to offer a comprehensive cluster management toolset: Rocks—the leading Linux-based cluster distribution; and Moab Cluster Suite, which offers ease-of-use and leadership-class workload management. Clustercorp developed Rocks+Moab in collaboration with Cluster Resources as part of a continuing commitment to support the Rocks community.

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A Dell/Stanford Case Study Utilizing Rocks+

Challenge - Build a highly available, standards-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that supports researchers conducting groundbreaking work in mathematical simulation for engineering design and flow control analysis

Solution - The Dell Advanced System Group designed and installed a 212-node, 1,696-processor cluster based on Dell PowerEdge servers, knitted together with Cisco Infiniband, Dell PowerConnect switches and running the Clustercorp Rocks+ operating system.

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CLEARWATER, Fla., Sept. 24 -- The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division (AIS) of Tech Data Corporation today announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Clustercorp, a leading provider of software, services and support for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Clustercorp software enables users to tie together server hardware to create more robust computing systems capable of processing intensive data calculations such as long-term financial projections and engineering design.

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San Jose, CA, July 24, 2007 - Clustercorp, the leader in commercial software and support for the RocksTM cluster distribution, announced availability of PGI® compilers and tools from The Portland Group as part of its Rocks+Rolls program. The PGI Roll is one of the first commercial software solutions supported on the open-source Rocks 4.3 software stack. PGI compilers produce highly optimized parallel code for 64-bit multi-core processors from Intel and AMD. In addition, PGI tools include features specifically targeted for Linux clusters. Clustercorp developed the PGI Roll in collaboration with The Portland Group as part of a continuing commitment to support the Rocks community. 

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Mark your Calendars!

Clustercorp brings you the Stanford University High Performance Computing Conference III
Tuesday August 21th 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wallenberg Hall
http://wallenberg.stanford.edu

The focus this year is software development and research computing; bringing
together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists
and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future
advancement in High Performance Computing.

The detailed agenda and registration information will be posted to the
conference web site in the coming weeks: http://hpcc.stanford.edu

Lunch and refreshments provided throughout the day by Dell. The conference is free
of charge to Stanford affiliates, non-Stanford academic and research institutions.

See you there!

The Rocks All Hands Meeting (Rocks-a-Palooza III) will be held at AMD World Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. on May 16th and 17th 2007.

There will be two tracks: one focused towards users, the other towards developers. Attendance is free for non-profit organizations. A nominal fee will be charged to attendees from for-profit entities.

We encourage all to attend to learn the latest in Rocks, participate in hands-on tutorials and to meet users and developers from the Rocks community.

Registration is limited. To register, send your request to:

rap@rocksclusters.org

This article, written by Clustercorp's founders, appears in HPCwire's special Supercomputing 2006 Edition: As high performance computing (HPC) becomes a ubiquitous part of the scientific computing landscape, the science of visualizing HPC datasets has become a critical field of its own. One of the hottest solutions can be found in commoditized high performance visualization clusters (HPVC), which are just starting to pop up in data rich environments around the world.

Supercomputing 2006: The Rocks Cluster Toolkit is quickly growing into the leading Linux-based cluster distribution. The first annual Supercomputing Birds of a Feather meeting for Rocks users and developers will serve as an important halfway point between annual Rocks All-Hands Meetings (a.k.a., Rocks-A-Palooza). Meet to discuss issues with members of the core Rocks development team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, leading Rocks system administrators, and key leaders in bringing Rocks into the commercial space. Discussions will include new elements in recently released Rocks 4.2, Rocks Rolls, and feedback on the roadmap for the future of Rocks. While Rocks is known for making large-scale systems administration and management simple, a growing ecosystem of extensions are a big part of what makes Rocks a compelling solution in so many environments. In addition to general Rocks discussion, the panel will focus in on the recently released Viz Roll, tiled displays, and parallel rendering.

Session Leaders: Steve Jones, Greg Bruno, Tim McIntire

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Dell and Clustercorp bring you the Stanford University High Performance Computing Conference II
Tuesday August 29th 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wallenberg Hall
http://wallenberg.stanford.edu

The focus this year is software development and research computing; bringing
together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists
and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future
advancement in High Performance Computing.

The detailed agenda and registration information will be posted to the
conference web site in the coming weeks: http://hpcc.stanford.edu

Lunch and refreshments provided throughout the day by Dell. The conference is free
of charge to Stanford affiliates, non-Stanford academic and research institutions.

See you there!

See the next issue of Linux World for the featured article "Rapid Cluster Deployment: From delivery to production in hours," by one of Clustercorp's founders, Steve Jones.

Look for "The Parallel Image Processing Environment (PIPE): Automated Parallelization of Satellite Data Analyses" in an upcoming release of Concurrency and Computation, co-authored by one of Clustercorp's founders, Tim McIntire.