Vendors

With the acceptance of Linux clusters in the corporate world, more and more companies are incorporating them into their IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, not every company can do this internally. Lack of qualified people to build it, time issues, or no knowledge of what hardware vendors exist, which software should be used, or other issues could cause headaches.

On this page, we have lists of various companies out there that can do everything from sell you the hardware, provide consulting services, or even just build and test the entire cluster before they turn it over to you.

• AcceleratedServers: AceeleratedServers offers clusters running Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and can tailor-make them for a variety of problems, including scientific research, render farms, and high availability solutions.



• Alinka: Alinka is a company based out of France that provides a variety of services related to various aspects of Linux clustering. They are also the source of a weekly mailing list which highlights some of the previous week's interesting items in the Linux clustering world. Info on how to subscribe can be found here.



• Aspen Systems: Aspen Systems build Beowulf clusters using Xeon DP and Athlon MP processors, with nodes that include single, dual, or quad processing, Myrinet and Gigabit ethernet, and a variety of rackmount solutions ranging from 1U to 9U.



• Availix: Availix offers a variety of High Availability software and service solutions on a variety of hardware, including both standard servers and Blade servers, with their software solutions available on multiple architectures, including Intel and PowerPC. Availix is based out of France.



• Blackstone Computing: Blackstone has historically focussed on the Semiconductor Design and Life Sciences industries.



• Cray Inc.: In the last year or so, Cray has announced its plans for offering Alpha Linux "SuperCluster" Systems, and more recently, teaming up with Dell to offer Linux HPC clusters on Dell servers.



• EBIZ: EBIZ offers Veloxa compute nodes at reasonable prices, and will install clients' Open Source software, including Bio distros. They provide turnkey cluster solutions Intel or AMD processors, SANS, multiple network fabrics, and accelerated FPGA technologies. Single, dual, and quad processor nodes are available in 1U, 2U, and unique rack mount packaging.



• Fujitsu Siemens: Fujitsu Siemens is a large European IT company, and one of their offering is complete Linux solutions, in various configurations.



• gridCore: gridCore is a company based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They offer HPC, HA, and non-dedicated cluster solutions, as well as a variety of other Linux based offerings. With both scientists and engineers working towards custom tailored answers, they can offer solutions for most every customer.



• Hewlett Packard: At the end of January 2001, HP started offering customized Linux clustering solutions.



• High Performance Technologies: High Performance Technologies offers solutions to high performance scientific and technical computing.



• IBM: Over the course of the past couple of years, IBM has started a major push towards Linux support and offerings, in both the clustering and enterprise computing arenas. They offer many things, from just hardware to complete cluster solutions.



• Linux Labs: Linux Labs offers completely open source solutions, with experience in LinuxBIOS, clusters and high performance computing, shared memory systems, Linux optimized hardware, system integration and support, and more. They have experience in academic, biotechnical, oil/gas, and government arenas, and can offer off-the-shelf or customized systems.



• Linux NetworX: Linux NetworX offers custom Linux clustering solutions, and can help plan everything from computational power to networking to storage to application selection. LNXI (as they call themselves) has experience in many verticals, including geophysics, research and life sciences (biotech), rendering, internet, and streaming media.



• Open Clustering: Open Clustering provides high performance, high availability, and custom computing solutions. With offices in the UK, Open Clustering offers service to all of Europe.



• Open Minds: Open Minds High Availability Solutions offer Linux High Availability consulting services, and are the UK and Ireland's distributors for SteelEye Lifekeeper and are the Authorized Training Centre for the full range of LifeKeeper HA Clustering products.



• Paralline: Paralline is a French Linux clustering company that provides complete cluster solutions, high speed networks, and other services associated with clustering.



• Paralogic, Inc: Paralogic designs, builds, and supports high performance Beowulf clusters.



• Penguin Computing: Penguin offers a variety of Linux solutions, including clusters based on the Scyld Beowulf Clustering Operating System.
  
  • Penguin also has a High Performance Computing FAQ, which can be found here, and answers questions such as What is HPC? How Many Nodes Do You Need? Do You Need High Speed Interconnects? and more.



• Promicro Systems: Promicro Systems has experience in building cluster solutions in academic and research, life and computational sciences, applied mathematics, and seismic imaging (in the oil and gas industry, as examples) environments, and can provide high performance, high availability, scalable, and easily manageable solutions..



• PSSC Labs: PSSC Labs (Professional Service Super Computers) can provide you with anything from a turnkey Beowulf Supercomputer to workstations, to meet your specifications and budget.



• Rackable: Rackable offers a range of Linux clustering solutions, generally based on rack mounted standard Intel hardware. They offer their own hardware server line, and are partners with Intel.



• RackSaver, Inc.: RackSaver offers a wide variety of Linux Clustering solutions, with partnerships with companies like IBM, Compaq, HP, AMD, and Intel.



• RLX Technologies: RLX offers solutions based mainly on blade servers, with Windows 2000, Linux, or no OS on the servers.



• Scali: Scali (Scalable Linux Systems) builds and supports Linux Clusters. They offer a variety of hardware configurations, and have a custom software configuration called the Scali Software Platform, with which they've done some interesting things. Scali is based out of Norway.



• Streamline Computing: Streamline Computing is a clustering company with expertise in both software and hardware for the HPC industry. Streamline have successfully installed the largest clusters in the UK and also offer a full range of related consultancy services.



• Western Scientific, Inc.: Western Scientific provides Linux clusters, data storage, networking, SAN, Raid products, and more, with support for Linux, Windows, and UNIX solutions.

• Galfer: Galfer is an Italian based company that sells online cluster computing, as well as clusters. They will have a free evaluation cluster online soon for testing, and their initial online resources will be 100 AMD XP Athlon processors with a Gigabit network connection.



• LINBIT: LINBIT offers various services, centered around the development of Linux based cluster solutions based on the Distributed Rescource Block Device (DRBD), which was developed by the director and head of Technology at LINBIT, Philipp Reisner. While based out of Austria, they have provided services for customers all over the world.



• Mosixcluster Computing: Mosixcluster Computing offers outsourced clustering services on their sysytems, which run openMosix. They can provide both interactive shell access and managed/batch processing. Free trials are available and they offer special rates for academics and Open Source developers. They also offer commercial consultancy on cluster optimization and application porting assistance for applications that are not parallelized for openMosix.

• Myricom: Myricom are the folks who produce Myrinet.



• Quadrics: Quadrics produce QsNet, which currently is being used in three of the top five systems in the Top500's 20th list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

• Rackmount Mart: Rackmount Mart sells rackmount chassis, server racks and cabinets, LCDs and KVMs, keyboard drawers, disk arrays, backplanes, single board computers, accessories, power supplies, and more.