Technical scientific applications on hpcLine

The concept for the development of the hpcLine is based on the idea to connect individual Intel or AMD based computer systems to use their combined compute power to solve complex and compute intensive problems in the technical scientific area in a fast and cost efficient way. The rapid increase in performance of Intel and AMD processors over the past years made them a serious competitor to proprietary Unix systems at an unrivalled price ratio. Even the operating system Linux, usable without any Licence Costs, has reached the necessary stability that meanwhile it is accepted by many professional users and is gaining a steady growing importance for manufacturers of commercial available application packages.

Therefore an increasing number of application software has been parallelised and optimised for the use on coupled computer systems over the last years. Moreover the growing use of the Message Passing Library MPI for parallelising application packages has extended the number of parallel usable applications. As the Message Passing Library MPI is available for such different interconnects as Ethernet, SCI or Myrinet the same application often can be run with different interconnects. Furthermore the Message Passing library MPICH is available in an object code compatible version for different high speed interconnects. Every software product offered, that runs with Linux as operating system on Intel or AMD processor technology, can be used on hpcLine systems. The continuous improvements of hardware and software and not at least the availability of a choice of high speed interconnects make the hpcLine an attractive tool for engineers of various fields.

• software solutions for hpcLine
• Tools and libraries for constructing applications