IT-free HPC Appliances

摘要

Late last year, when DE ran a survey on high-performance computing (HPC) adoption on behalf of IBM Platform Computing, participants cited a lack of budget (47%) and a lack of skilled IT personnel to manage the cluster (31%) as the top two barriers. The phenomenon prompted some software vendors and hardware partners to deliver a packaged solution: HPC in a box, preconfigured for simulation. The specialized appliances target workgroups primarily, but they could also be a way to deal with peak demands in enterprises. Self-contained and portable, they can be managed independently from the company network. Some rest under a desk, with no need to be housed in a temperature-controlled server room.