Platform HPC for ICE-Linux offers HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem customers and resellers a simple path for incorporating HPC into IT infrastructures. The solution integrates a combination of Platform, HP and open source technologies, and builds on the established HP ProLiant system management technology, HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) for monitoring and provisioning capabilities. HP SIM allows unified infrastructure management across HP platforms and provides HP ICE-Linux with the basis for deep insight, precise control and ongoing optimization for expanding physical and virtual Linux environments. Platform HPC for ICE-Linux provides customers with powerful tools to manage the software stack, including a comprehensive toolkit for high performance computing, a workload manager, resource management tools and the remote control and advanced power management functions of ICE-Linux.

As IT budgets come under increasing pressure, Platform HPC for ICE-Linux allows customers to leverage existing HP investments and open source tools within Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 5 to reduce the complexity and costs within IT infrastructures. Platform OCS 5 is based on the open source Project Kusu. Project Kusu is designed from the ground up to deliver the next generation of cluster management software. Customers and resellers will minimize the disruption of implementing additional new technologies and services, cut costs associated with HPC cluster projects, and reduce the impact that monitoring and management tools have on performance as infrastructures scale.

"Platform is extremely pleased to be able to deliver its next generation of HPC management software seamlessly to customers. Platform has been working with HP for over 15 years and the llaunch of Platform HPC for ICE-LX further extends the benefits of Platform technologies to make IT infrastructures work more effectively", stated Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development, Platform Computing. "The combined solution provides customers and resellers with the ability to create a flexible solution for delivering and managing HPC clusters. Platform HPC for ICE-Linux provides customers with tangible cost and productivity benefits."