The minimal intervention required to manage a Scyld cluster significantly
enhanced our productivity but in a cost effective manner.
-Joe Oefelein, senior member, technical staff
Sandia National Laboratory's Combustion Research Facility
Even though Sandia National Laboratory's Combustion Research Facility (CRF)
was doing science for the Department of Energy (DOE) with real-world
pocketbook impact, they were often limited by a lack of supercomputer
resources required to conduct numerical simulations and analyze data. Knowing
they had a tight budget and needed massive compute power, Sandia's CRF team
and Penguin Computing put their heads together and harnessed the power of
several Penguin Altus Opteron servers using Sycld Software's Beowulf cluster
software. This single depa... (more)