AMAX’s Microsoft Windows HPC Clusters use the latest low power consumption 2-way and 4-way quad-core and six-core AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processing technologies. And the built-in Virtualization capability allows for remote deployment from data centers throughout the world! AMAX’s ISO 9001 certified quality assurance facilities ensure reliable, cost effective, robust, and flexible computing solutions.

Applications:

• Scientific research
• Simulations
• Biotechnology
• Petro-clusters
• Financial market modeling
• Data mining and stream processing
• Web hosting
• Computational grid endpoint
• Visualization
• Server consolidation

Turnkey HPC Cluster Solutions Highly scalable multi-node Open architecture hardware design based on Intel/AMD platforms Industry Standard hardware High density, high scalability, high availability   Complete Cluster Distribution Free IPMI management suite Seamless standard and custom application integration & cluster installation Firmware upgrades & BIOS modification BIOS modification Multiple Interconnect Options: InfiniBand (20Gbps, 40Gbps) Myrinet & Quadrics Fibre Channel Ethernet (Gigabit, 10GbE)   Clustered File Storage (from Terabyte to Petabyte): Hardware design & software stack Lustre / Open source file system (Redundancy across system nodes)   Specifications: 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 5U, 8U, or 9U rack-optimized servers Intel Xeon™ or AMD Opteron processor platforms (2-way, 4-way, 8-way) SATA, SAS, or Fibre Channel storage Internal or hot swap hard disk drives Single or hot swap redundant power supplies Rackmount cabinet options up to 42U with turnkey solutions for expert installation and setup of rack-optimized nodes, cabling, rails, and other peripherals   Share Storage SATA, SAS, or Fibre Channel RAID controllers 4, 8, 12, 16, or 24 hot swap hot disk drives Single or hot swap redundant power options 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 5U or 8U form factor

Complete Cluster Assembly and Set-up Services Complete turnkey solutions for expert installation and setup of rack-optimized cluster nodes, cabling, rails, and other peripherals Configuration of cluster nodes AND the network Installation of applications and clients computers to offer a true replacement of customer's IT department Rapid Deployment   Custom OS Installation & Configurations: Active Directory DHCP DNS Printing Services   Optional Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Cluster System Software Installed, with: Productive, cost-effective, & high-performance computing solution based on x64-bit hardware Can be deployed, managed, and extended using familiar tools and technologies. Enhanced productivity Scalable performance Quickly deploy a manageable infrastructure A comprehensive set of management, administration, and diagnostic tools scale to support larger clusters A foundation for high performance service oriented applications (SOA) Improved etworking and highspeed interconnects (A networking wizard and network diagnostics tools, plus simplified driver management, help to reduce the complexity of deploying multiple networks across a cluster, while use of NetworkDirect helps to achieve better performance and enable efficient CPU utilization.) Advanced Scheduling Options Quick Deployment, taking advantage of the overall Microsoft ecosystem to improve the functionality, usability, and manageability of the cluster. Supports OpenMP, MPI, and Web Services, third-party numerical library providers, performance optimizers, compilers, and a native parallel debugger for developing and troubleshooting parallel programs