Axceleon Offers Grid Resource Management Solution

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Nov 2004

Axceleon has released its EnFuzion resource management software for HP Volume Cluster Series compute clusters. Axceleon and HP have signed a software licensing agreement to offer EnFuzion with HP compute clusters, available from HP directly as well as from HP's partner sales channels.

As industry standard compute farms and clusters are becoming more available and affordable, the lack of applications and the difficulty of cluster management have become a problem. Using EnFuzion as the basic resource manager, a wide range of applications can take advantage of these scalable compute configurations. EnFuzion automates and accelerates parametric studies, where the same application is executed many times with multiple sets of input parameters.

Parametric studies require vast amounts of compute power. They are also labor intensive and subject to human error due to the repetitive nature of the task. With EnFuzion, users are able to do more by defining jobs through a range of parameter settings and data values.

Using combined compute power of the HP Volume Cluster Series cluster reduces the time to obtain results and eliminates human errors. Commercial and home grown applications can utilize compute clusters in a short time without any need to change the applications. The user simply submits the jobs to EnFuzion's resource manager and comes back for results, while EnFuzion takes care of execution details in between.

EnFuzion supports both Windows and Linux based compute clusters from HP. Different operating systems can be seamlessly mixed in the same configuration, providing additional application performance and flexibility. The industry-standard HP Volume Cluster Series clusters with EnFuzion can be easily integrated in the IT infrastructure without network or administrative disruption.

"EnFuzion resource management software, combined with HP Volume Cluster Series compute clusters, provides a solution that is easy to deploy and provides benefits in a short time," said Rok Sosic, chief technology officer at Axceleon.

"Almost any compute intensive application can derive great benefit from running parametric studies on compute clusters. EnFuzion's ease of use and simplicity, combined with HP's portfolio of packaged, supported clusters, provides an ideal platform for any entry level or experienced cluster user."