Grid Computing News : Univa UD Launches HPC Management Project

Univa UD is collaborating with Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and others to ease management of high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Launched on Univa UD's Grid.org open source community site, the Open HPC Management Interoperability Project's goal is "to simplify the challenges of managing HPC Systems and to reduce the associated costs," the partners said in a press release. "These non-standard aspects impact how effectively a system administrator integrates and manages the system." The project, he said, will "significantly reduce the amount of customized systems integration work" and "remove business costs associated with vendor lock-in." When HPC system elements such as distributed resource management (DRM) systems are not standardized, organizations experience increased overhead and complexity in their HPC environments, leading to reduced flexibility in migration and the introduction of costs and barriers for maintaining code and wrappers that are written around a DRM, the companies said. The project is focused on creating separation between job submission, operations management and resource management environments by building a reference implementation that unifies existing standards, best practices and migration tools. In other news, Univa UD announced general availability of Grid MP 5.6, the company's product for non-dedicated distributed computing.... read more