Stephen Hill, president and CEO of Linux NetworX, said in a statement that the partnership will help clustering lose some of its mystique and gain broader use. a state-of-the-art clustering management product to keep their customers managing their clusters more efficiently and more effectively," he said.ĬlusterWorX supports Red Hat Linux 7.3 and is being readied to work with the recent Red Hat 8.0 operating system, Hutchings said. Typical users for cluster supercomputer technologies include businesses from the pharmaceutical industry to aerospace, oil and gas exploration, engineering, film animation, banking, universities and government research laboratories.īoth companies have a deep background in high performance supercomputer clusters, with HP having the highest number of systems on the Top500 supercomputer list, while Linux NetworX and HP have both designed and built clusters that rank among the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the companies.ĭean Hutchings, the chief operating officer for Salt Lake City-based Linux NetworX, said the deal with HP gives his company a much larger global presence and marketplace for their applications and services. Pricing depends on specific configurations and needs. Under the new partnership, HP will offer the clustering software as well as services with its hardware, and Linux NetworX will offer HP hardware pre-configured with its software, as well as its existing Evolocity Linux cluster servers.
The two companies had previously worked on a partnership deal with the clustering software and ProLiant servers before HP's merger with the former Compaq Computer Corp., she said, but the earlier deal was not a success because Linux had not yet reached the mainstream in business computing.
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