RALEIGH, USA: Red Hat, provider of open source solutions has announced the delivery of Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution.

Historically, building and managing HPC clusters has provided cost and expertise challenges for IT departments faced with lengthy deployment timelines and tedious integration work requiring extensive training, planning and upkeep.

Today, with the availability of the comprehensive Red Hat HPC Solution, customers of all levels and workloads are offered the benefits of high-performance computing through an easy-to-install, end-to-end solution that can be deployed in under one hour.

"We're delivering the first Linux-based solution that allows our customers to deploy a fully integrated high-performance computing environment in minutes rather than in weeks or months. No one else in the industry has yet been able to deliver this type of compelling Linux solution for HPC clusters," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat.

The Red Hat HPC Solution incorporates all of the components necessary to deploy and maintain HPC clusters, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and Platform Open Cluster Stack 5. The solution also includes device drivers, a simple cluster installer, cluster management tools, a resource and application monitor, interconnect support and Platform Lava, a powerful job scheduler.

For deploying and managing HPC clusters, Red Hat, Dell and Platform Computing have also partnered to offer customers a comprehensive cluster computing package, Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS), to ease cluster deployment, management and operation of the Red Hat HPC Solution.

"With the Red Hat HPC Solution, organizations ranging from the enterprise to SMB will be able to adopt open source solutions that are fully supported, easy-to-use and cost-effective to implement," said Tripp Purvis, vice president, Business Development, Platform Computing.

"Dell is committed to simplifying High Performance Computing solutions and sees benefit in the approach that Red Hat is taking with their HPC Solution" said Judy Chavis, director of Business Development and Product Management, Dell Inc.