SGI announces commercial software for LinuxSan Jose 15 August 2000 SGI announced Pro64 Compilers, Linux FailSafe for High-Availability, XFS File System and Advanced Cluster Environment (ACE) for Linux. These e applications are developed as complementary elements to work together, as a complete infrastructure upon which a commercial Linux user can depend.
SGI's technology offerings are geared to enhance, expand and promote the usability, availability and applicability of Linux. By making available the industry's highest performance compilers, in combination with the most scalable, journaled file system, industry-leading high-availability and a complete cluster solution, SGI is offering the production user a real opportunity to make the move to Linux.
Pro64 Compilers for Linux provide Linux developers with the potential to deliver a 30%-100% applications performance increase over that of a standard compiler implementation. This technology translates into significant cost benefits to the end user and is another important step in establishing Linux as a commercially viable platform.
SGI Linux Advanced Cluster Environment (ACE) provides the industry's leading compute cluster environment on Linux by integrating various open-source and vendor-developed components. ACE, comprised of MPI programming, cluster-wide resource management, cluster management, centralized software installation and performance monitoring, is nimbly structured to adopt the latest research coming out of the Linux cluster community.
SGI Linux ACE is a fully tested and integrated cluster package for compute-intensive environments supporting both capability and throughput clusters. In cluster taxonomy, capability clusters address huge problems, which need to scale to multiple CPUs. Throughput clusters run multiple jobs (either different applications or multiple instances of the same application) in a batch-style environment.
A cutting edge cluster environment with low total cost of ownership SGI Linux ACE, a suite of integrated tools, eliminates the need to continually identify, download, and integrate available clustering software from the Internet. Each component of ACE has gone through intensive testing in SGI's cluster engineering labs to ensure the interoperability and functionality of the whole package.
SGI Linux FailSafe is the next generation High-Availability (HA) solution for business critical applications. It provides a scalable cluster infrastructure for distributed cluster-aware applications to take advantage of, and at the same time, provides a simple way to make non-cluster-aware applications highly available without having to resort to expensive hardware solutions. Linux FailSafe provides a robust HA clustering environment with resilience form any single point of failure.
Linux FailSafe is architected to scale up to 16 nodes in a cluster with the cluster members sharing storage. Linux FailSafe and shared storage allows multiple servers to assume control of data in the event of a failure. In the event a server failed, applications may be resumed on one of other server(s) and the corresponding filesystems are automatically made available to the application.
Lack of rapid crash recovery in common Linux filesystems has been recognized as a significant problem. SGIs XFS was designed around journaling technology and has been shipping on thousands of SGI systems, under IRIX, for over six years. Widely recognized as the industry's leading high-performance file system, XFS has a standard interface allowing for a simple upgrade from any other standards-based filesystem. Now, on Linux, XFS is optimized for big data and big I/O.
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