University researchers are working at the cutting edge of science to create breakthroughs in the sciences including biology, chemistry, physics and specialties including medicine, engineering, aerodynamics and more.
The varied scope of the research activities usually leads to complex IT requirements. Solutions based on vSMP Foundation are ideally suited to help address these requirements, which can range from running commercial off-the-shelf OpenMP and MPI applications to homegrown applications. These solutions provide reduced system management operational complexity through a single image of the operating system, allowing the researchers to focus on the research instead of worrying about the IT infrastructure. These solutions provide the versatility of being able to run jobs that require a large memory footprint, compute intensive applications, or be used to run multiple small to medium simulations allowing scientists, engineers and researchers to dynamically adjust the mix of applications to changes in research priorities. In summary, solutions based on vSMP Foundation are ideal for multidisciplinary research to allow faculty and students to maximize application performance and research flexibility for single users, departments and computer centers.