Red Hat即将推优化发行版HPC

Red Hat即将在10月7日宣布推出它的第一个高性能计算优化发行版Red Hat HPC。

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新发行版将使现有的Red Hat Enterprise Linux在高性能计算节点（HPC Compute Nodes）方面前进一大步。新的发行版部分来自于新加坡的一个小项目Project Kusu，Kusu是Platform Open Cluster Stack（OCS）的基础，而OCS则是Red Hat HPC的核心。或许从另一方面暗示，越来越多的硬件和软件开发都转移到远东去了，即使是最顶尖的高性能计算。

With some Singapore spice
RED HAT WILL announce its first high performance computing optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes.

The current offerings, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Compute Node subscription, are based on the standard distro but tailored for compute nodes running HPC workloads. The subscription is available for HPC compute nodes used in clusters with four or more systems. Users access compute nodes via head node servers, which of course use the more expensive Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or AS.

Instead, the upcoming Red Hat HPC is actually a fully integrated software stack using combined technologies from Red Hat and Platform Computing.

Their marketers would say it is meant to reduce cluster complexity and time to deployment, as well as minimise software integration work and project planning. In return, that would reduce resource demands on the cluster IT admin staff, letting them doze off a little longer.

A part of the new distro is, by the way, created by a small Project Kusu team here in Singapore. Kusu is the foundation for Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) which is an integral feature of Red Hat HPC. It might be sign of things to come, as more of hardware and software development moves to the Far East - even at the top of the computing performance.