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High Performance Computing Solutions by Cisco and Microsoft

The Cisco unified compute fabric and Compute Cluster Server 2003 are for customers solving complex computational problems. Compute Cluster Server 2003 provides an HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools. Prescriptive setup procedures simplify:

  • Network configuration
  • Remote loading of nodes using remote installation services (RIS)
  • Node configuration
  • Security setup

The Cisco unified compute fabric provides high-bandwidth and low latency switching and a common set of management tools, security features, and APIs that simplify HPC deployment, operation, and integration. This provides greater ease of use and reliability that delivers superior application performance, security, availability and system efficiency. At the core of the unified compute fabric are products that can be tailored to the meet the performance, security, and availability requirements of the most demanding HPC applications.