Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions has announced the delivery of the industry’s first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution.

HPC platform was first announced in collaboration with Platform Computing in November 2007. But now the HPC Solution will be available through Red Hat Network with the backing of Red Hat’s global 24x7 customer support services.

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

The Red Hat HPC Solution incorporates all the components necessary to deploy and maintain HPC clusters, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, the world’s leading open source operating system, and Platform Computing’s cluster software framework, 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.

Red Hat, Dell and Platform Computing have partnered for deploying and managing HPC clusters.

The Red Hat HPC solution is available at $249 per node.

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