The vSMP Foundation for SMP™ solution targets customers who need large-scale compute, memory and I/O performance they've traditionally received from proprietary SMP's, but at a significantly lower cost than the proprietary options. It is targeted at applications that benefit from large memory or high core-count such as simulation, analytics and modeling. vSMP Foundation for SMP enables the aggregation of up to 16 servers into a single virtual machine, with up to 128 cores and 4TB or main memory. It supports the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem - 55xx series) and large memory as well as offering high availability features such as partitioning and redundant InfiniBand backplane.
The vSMP Foundation for Cluster™ solution provides a simplified compute architecture for high-performance clusters - it hides the InfiniBand fabric, offers built-in high-performance storage as a cluster-filesystem replacement and reduces the number of operating systems to one, making it much easier to administer. This solution is ideally suited for smaller compute implementations in which management tools and skills may not be readily available.
The vSMP Foundation for Cloud™ solution enables on demand virtual SMP provisioning for enterprise cloud infrastructure. Tightly integrated with your existing systems management and provisioning tools, vSMP Foundation for Cloud offers the flexibility of on-the-fly creation of virtual machines on a per job, per project, or per customer basis, eliminating the need to deploy dedicated shared memory systems.