KTH Sweden Selects Adaptive Computing's Solution

Adaptive Computing, a provider of intelligent automation software for High Performance Computing or ‘HPC,’ data center and cloud environments, has announced that the Royal Institute for Technology or ‘KTH’ from Sweden has selected company’s Moab Cluster Suite for managing its Center for High Performance Computing or ‘PDC.’ The company develops Moab unified intelligent automation technology that will help PDC in managing the additional complexity of an expanded HPC network, and will also support it in future initiatives such as integrating and managing disparate server and OS architectures. The intelligence solutions offered by Adaptive Computing are powered by Moab, and allow the customers to consolidate and virtualize their resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels and reduce operational costs.

In the words of Dr. Erwin Laure, director of PDC-HPC at KTH, the upgrade of organization’s existing Cray XT6m system to a new Cray XE6 system, with three times the capability of the current system, means it requires a workload management solution that will keep up with the growing complexity of the PDC high-performance computing and storage services. Laure continued that Moab is an industry-proven technology used in some of the world’s largest HPC systems; and as an intelligent metascheduler, it will schedule jobs for optimal efficiency that based on defined policies and service-level agreements, apart from current and projected workload.

PDC relies upon a range of high-performance computers to provide easily accessible computational resources to fulfill the requirements of Swedish academic research and education. The organization has been working upon a number of international projects to develop HPC solutions for the next ten years and beyond. It primarily owns as a 305 teraflops Cray XE6 system that will integrate with the network of Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe or ‘PRACE,’ a pan-European research infrastructure for high-performance computing that enables researchers from across Europe to apply for time on high-performance computers via a central peer-review process. Apart from it, PDC has a number of HPC and HTC (News - Alert) systems that offer an integrated total capacity of around 500 teraflops.

According to Michael Jackson, president of Adaptive Computing, Moab Cluster Suite provides PDC with the flexibility required to satisfy Sweden’s diverse HPC user community while optimizing the throughput of its HPC infrastructure. Jackson noted that the company is proud to support the management-level requirements of one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.

Recently this month, Adaptive Computing announced to introduce two significant product upgrades named Moab 6.0 and Moab Viewpoint 2.0 that address the increasing complexity and size of next-generation HPC systems.