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SUSE Forecasts Adoption of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating SystemAug 02, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- SUSE announced that the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system is being used by more than one-third of the top 100 supercomputers in the world, as ranked by the TOP500 list, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing (HPC). "SUSE has invested heavily in developing solutions that enable the fastest computers in the world," said Meike Chabowski, product marketing manager for Enterprise Linux Servers at SUSE. "The next step in supercomputing is to move from high performance to high productivity, and our partners like SGI, Cray and Teradata are helping to lead these advancements. Linux will continue to be an integral part of these revolutionary machines." According to a release, the past few years have seen significant changes in the high-performance computing landscape often referred to recently as high-productivity computing. This is due at least in part to the emergence of open source and new clustering technologies. The evolution of both lower-cost hardware and Linux has reduced the cost of these systems. Compute power has increased a thousand times in just a few years, allowing enterprises to use the power of supercomputers in the form of HPC Linux clusters on commodity hardware. Bill Mannel, vice president of Servers at SGI, said, "More and more commercial customers are turning to High-Performance Computing to gain the necessary performance they need for their business. With the Pangea system at Total Exploration, SGI developed the fastest supercomputer used in an industrial environment. Partnering with SUSE enables us to use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, an operating system that uniquely combines high scalability, flexible architecture and the ability to handle large volumes of CPUs." "Since 1998, we have relied on SUSE for our high-performance computer sector at the LRZ," said Dr. Herbert Huber, head of high-performance systems at the LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Garching. "At that time, it was important to us that SUSE provided technical features that were not included in other Linux distributions. This is still a huge benefit for us and is why all of our high-performance computers and most other systems run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server." Kai Dupke, senior product manager at SUSE, said, "Lustre is a popular choice for businesses with large data centers and high performance needs, including those in industries such as meteorology, simulation, oil and gas, life science, rich media, and finance. By packaging and enabling Lustre for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE provides much more value to the HPC community than any other enterprise Linux vendor." More information and complete product details: www.suse.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |