The Waltham, Massachusetts-based identity and Linux software vendor launched the Validated Configuration Program in March to make it easier for customers to deploy integrated Linux-based stacks of open source and proprietary software.
The first delivery, announced in June, saw Novell teaming up with HP for its BladeSystem servers, as well as JBoss Inc for its application server, and Oracle Corp for its database and Real Application Cluster products.
This time Novell has once again teamed up with Novell, as well as a selection of HPC software specialists, to pitch SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a platform for clustered HPC systems.
The stack has been tailored to meet the requirements of five industries with specific interest in Linux-based HPC, according to Novell, with a specific solution bundle for electronic design automation, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, and oil and gas.
Customers can choose from a variety of components based on their specific requirements, with Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and HP’s ProLiant servers forming the basis of the systems, along with Scali Inc’s Scali Manage and MPI Connect cluster-management and message-passing interface technologies.
On top of that, customers can also choose from Altair Engineering Inc’s PBS Professional workload-management and job-scheduling technology, PolyServe Inc’s Matrix Server and Cluster Volume Manager file-serving technologies, and DataSynapse Inc’s GRIDServer grid-computing technology.
United Devices Inc’s GRIP MP grid technology is also part of the Validated Configuration, alongside TurboWorx Inc’s workflow and cluster-management technologies, Meiosys Inc’s application-virtualization technology, and Axceleon Inc’s resource-management software.
While some open source evangelists might not like the mix of open and closed source technologies being proactively assembled together by Novell for these sort of offerings, the company’s chief technology officer for the Linux and open source platforms and services group, Marcus Rex, maintained that the company sees it as the best route forward.
We are not a company that is preaching 100% open source, out goal is making customers’ problems go away, he told ComputerWire. The company will pick the best technology for the job, he said, be it open source or proprietary.
