Know that it works

Select a Viglen certified Intel Cluster Ready system for your registered Intel Cluster Ready applications so you can be confident that hardware and software components will work together, right out of the box. Software tools such as Intel Cluster Checker help ensure that those components continue to work together, delivering a high level of quality and a low total cost of ownership over the course of the cluster’s lifetime.

Solve new problems

Capitalize on the power of an Intel processor–based HPC cluster to enhance productivity and solve new problems. Intel Cluster Ready helps you realize HPC benefits faster by ensuring application and system interoperability.
 

How does it work?

Laying the foundation — Intel Cluster Ready Specification

Working with HPC ecosystem partners, Intel has defined the Intel Cluster Ready Specification — a common basis for building clusters and registering applications for HPC. The specification — which includes requirements for hardware, software, manageability, and functionality — helps to make sure that each cluster component conforms to industry standards or, if no standard exists, best-of-class practices. Intel provides the specification to hardware vendors, software vendors, and systems integrators so they can build certified Intel Cluster Ready clusters and develop registered Intel Cluster Ready applications.

Extending the flexibility of HPC

By creating a common basis for clusters, the Intel Cluster Ready Specification also gives you the flexibility to customize your system based on your specific needs. Choose from a variety of hardware and software components that conform to the specification when you are first deploying the cluster or make modifications as your requirements change.

Ensuring interoperability — Certified Intel Cluster Ready clusters

Intel facilitates component interoperability by working with hardware vendors and systems integrators to assemble the right combination of components for HPC clusters. A “certified” cluster is a system built according to the Intel Cluster Ready Specification that has been rigorously tested for component interoperability.

Validating applications — Registered Intel Cluster Ready applications

A “registered” Intel Cluster Ready application is one that has been validated on a certified Intel Cluster Ready cluster. Because registered Intel Cluster Ready applications are all developed to run on clusters with the same base specification, you can run multiple registered applications on the same certified Intel Cluster Ready cluster without having to rebuild the software stack or reconfigure the hardware. Run different applications on different days. You can optimize your HPC resources and enhance productivity without adding costs or complexity.

Expanding your infrastructure — Intel Cluster Ready recipes

Viglen build “recipes” with certified Intel Cluster Ready clusters and registered software. Using a recipe, you can create an exact copy of the cluster to expand your HPC infrastructure or deploy a cluster for another business group. Because the new cluster is Intel Cluster Ready, you can be confident that hardware and software will work together as they should.