High Performance Computing

Aeco Pacific has a Linux/Unix High Performance Computing practice specialising in providing HPC services to customers throughout Australia. Aeco's Fortran and C parallel programming skills provide customers operating complex  OPENMP and MPI models HPC resources and skills.

High Performance Computing Platforms

IBM iDataPlex

IBM System x™ iDataPlex™, an Internet-scale solution, helps clients face constraints in power, cooling or physical space. The innovative design of the iDataPlex solution integrates Intel® processor-based processing into the node, rack and data center for power and cooling efficiencies, and required compute density.

The iDataPlex solution is built around Flex Node technology, delivering customized solutions for your specific business needs for compute power, storage density and networking.

 

 

 

IBM CLUSTER 1350

IBM System Cluster 1350 is an integrated, factory-built and -tested cluster solution with comprehensive warranty service for all cluster components including third-party options. This highly acclaimed, reliable cluster solution provides clients with many significant advantages including exceptional scalability, versatility, price/performance and reduced installation and deployment time. The Cluster 1350 offers a broad range of compute, management and storage nodes based on the latest IBM PowerPC®, Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron™ and Cell Broadband Engine™ processor technologies complemented by a complete storage portfolio and leading fibre and copper network switching technologies. Software support includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating systems and IBM Cluster Systems Management (CSM), which facilitates a single point of management for all cluster functions.

Software Environments

Operating Systems

  • Redhat Linux
  • Suse linux
  • IBM AIX
  • Sun Solaris

Systems Management

XCAT

xCAT is a scalable distributed computing management and provisioning tool that provides a unified interface for hardware control, discovery, and OS diskful/diskfree deployment. xCAT has been deploying and managing large Linux systems since 1999. Many IBM customers and others have enjoyed its powerful customizable architecture long before other management solutions came into existence. Now xCAT 2 is open source on the xCAT sourceforge web site, so you can use it with confidence and participate in making it even better.

 

 

openpbs

OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System, a queuing system developed for NASA in the early 1990s. OpenPBS operates on networked multi-platform UNIX environments.

 




 

Compilers, Debuggers, Code Analysis, Libraries

  • Sun Compilers: SPARC, Fortra, C, C++
  • IBM Compilers, Libraries: POWER, Fortran, C, C++, ESSL Engineering and Math Libraries
  • Portland Group Compilers: X86, x64, Fortran,C, C++, OpenMP and MPI libraries
  • Intel Compilers: X86, X64,Fortran, C, C++ OpenMP and MPI libraries