With Adaptive Computing, SciNet is fulfilling its mandate to deliver a higher-performing and greener compute environment for Canada's scientific community that will drive innovation that will ultimately spur economic progress and save lives. The University of Toronto's SciNet Consortium provides resources to the University's scientific researchers and ten affiliate research hospitals by combining industry-leading innovations in data centre design.

Faced with extremely diverse usage requirements, Adaptive Computing's Moab technology provides SciNet users and administrators the ability to consolidate and virtualize resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels and reduce operational costs. In addition, Adaptive Computing's intelligent infrastructure solutions reduce power consumption through intelligent workload-aware power management and temperature-aware workload balancing.

"Adaptive Computing empowers SciNet to adapt our supercomputer operating environment as user demands fluctuate over time", stated Dr. Daniel Gruner, PhD, chief technology officer of software for SciNet. "Moab Adaptive HPC Suite can reconfigure a node's characteristics on the fly to optimize the mix of infrastructure environments available to meet user requirements. These benefits create an efficient HPC environment that can meet the rigorous demands of Canada's research community and at a price point that met our budgetary requirements."

Adaptive Computing and IBM delivered the following capabilities:

• On-demand multi-OS image provisioning
• Power monitoring
• Green mode: Idle nodes are powered off
• Nodes are powered on and provisioned to ready when needed
• Amber light avoidance
• Automatic health checks

"SciNet is an exemplary use case for our technology that demonstrates why Moab is deployed in 10 of the Top 20 Supercomputers in the world", stated Michael Jackson, president of Adaptive Computing. "Customers come to us searching for solutions to adapt computing resources in response to workload, changing conditions, energy usage and organizational objectives, and we continue to innovate to provide the automation intelligence software that unifies large computing environments with disparate technologies such as Windows, Linux and Unix."