The Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0, is an integrated, open-source software solution for Sun HPC clusters. A ready-made framework of software components turns a bare-metal system into a running HPC cluster. Its software allows users to provision, manage and operate large scale Linux HPC clusters and serves as a foundation for optional add-ons such as schedulers, like Sun's Sun Grid Engine, and other components not included with the solution.

New in Release 2.0

• Support for SLES 10 sp2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) can now be supported for use on the head node and for provisioning to the nodes in the cluster.

• Sun Grid Engine available. Sun Grid Engine (SGE) is an open source batch-queuing system developed and supported by Sun Microsystems. SGE 6.2-2 is available on the Sun HPC Software ISO and through the Sun HPC Software repository.

• Sun Cluster Tools integration. Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1 software is an integrated toolkit that allows developers to create and tune Message-passing Interface (MPI) applications that run on high performance clusters and SMPs. The ClusterTools libraries have been pre-compiled for most of the commonly used compilers and included in the Sun HPC Software distribution.

• Sun Studio support. Sun Studio 12u1 software delivers high-performance C, C++, and Fortran compilers for Linux and other operating systems, including support for multi-core x86 architectures. All MPI libraries included with the Sun HPC Software have been pre-compiled with the Sun Studio compilers for customer deployment convenience. The Sun Studio installation file has been included in the Sun HPC Software ISO image for convenience. However, it is not available through the Sun HPC Software online repository.

• MPI libraries pre-built with Pathscale and Sun Studio x86 compilers. All MPI libraries included in Sun HPC Software have been pre-built with Pathscale and Sun Studio x86 compilers for those customers who use the Pathscale and Sun Studio products.

• Sun HPC Software Management Database for easier configuration and management. A cluster management database and related tools have been added in this release. This database can be used to hold cluster configuration information. Tools have been developed to generate configuration files automatically for several key components in the Sun HPC Software. These include configuration files for Cfengine, Cobbler, ConMan, Genders, ntp, PowerMan, SLURM, and hosts files. More configuration files will be added in future releases.

• Simplified installation and setup. Two new scripts, sunhpc_install and sunhpc_setup, have been added to eliminate the mundane aspects of deploying and configuring the management (head) node. These scripts can be used to prepare the cluster for both diskful and diskless compute node deployments.

• Package upgrades. Many of the base packages included in the Sun HPC Software have been updated to the latest version. See the “List of Contents” in the next section for the specific version of each package included.

• Lustre 1.8.0.1. The latest Lustre release has been included. This version of Lustre has added OST Pools support, server-side read caches, version-based recovery, and many performance improvements.

Support

Standard support service is available for the Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 product. It is designed specifically to support several open source communication, management, and test tools and schedulers that are part of the Sun HPC Software. HPC customers can download the software and then contract with Sun Services for standard support for these products.

Additionally, community-based support through mailing lists and a defect tracking system are open to interested users. Subscribe to linux_hpc_swstack@lists.lustre.org, go to lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo and complete the subscription form.

More Information

Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 Release Notes

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