HPCcommunity.org features forums, articles, blogs and software downloads for its user community. Content for the site will be technical in nature and focus on best practices for building, operating and managing HPC clusters. HPCcommunity.org is staffed by dedicated engineers who will help users keep up-to-date on developments in areas such as HPC, Grid, virtualization and cloud computing. The site provides a venue for users to discuss issues, develop solutions and leverage available engineering expertise, by collaborating with independent software vendors (ISVs) and other users.

"Platform Computing and the University of Melbourne are collaborating on the development of resource allocation and service-level agreement techniques for managing virtual machines within clouds. This will add significant value to future Grid and cloud computing paradigms", stated Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Director of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne. "HPCcommunity.org extends our relationship with the recognized leader in high performance computing. It provides an on-line forum for the engineers, administrators and end users in the community to come together to solve HPC problems and also work in partnership with colleagues."

HPCcommunity.org gives Platform Computing the opportunity to interact with users across industries. This dialogue among developers provides a forum for future innovations. The site enables discussion on initiatives such as HPC cluster management based on the open source project Kusu, HPC SOA middleware collaborations, and research projects based on Platform EGO resource management technologies. The site also includes an opportunity for exploration and collaboration on key emerging technology areas, such as application enablement using parallel development tools, cloud computing, data Grids and virtualization.

"HPCcommunity.org is another step in Platform's strategy to make it easier for users to deploy and manage complex grid and HPC environments", stated Laurence Liew, Community Development Manager, Platform Computing. "The discussion and collaboration at HPCcommunity.org will result not only in the best and most efficient HPC management software for customers, but also a starting point for new users to learn best practices."

Platform Computing is present in Dresden Germany at ISC'08, June 17-20 in booth number D01 and D02.