Overview

HP HPC Linux Value Pack

HP HPC Linux Value Pack V3.1 (HPC-LVP) is a specially-priced software bundle that is specifically designed for the development, use, and management of high performance applications running on HP cluster systems. HPC-LVP includes Platform LSF, software, which delivers a robust set of workload management capabilities for distributed computing environments. HPC-LVP also includes a web-based interface, workload monitoring and reporting, a simplified application integration process, and the HP MPI parallelization library.

Why use HP HPC Linux Value Pack?

Platform LSF Workload Management

Powerful, comprehensive, policy driven workload management
Topology and resource aware, including GPU scheduling
Rich job and system information for ease of use and management
Comprehensive workload accounting and reporting
Dynamic operating system multi-boot, including automated Linux and Windows operating system selection based on workload
High performance, throughput and utilization
Highly available and secure
Worldwide HP support

HP- MPI

Reduces development effort through the use of the same MPI library for multiple architectures on both Linux and Windows
Optimizes performance without compromising portability or flexibility.
Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect™ with CUDA drivers.
Supports a wide range of Operating Systems, interconnects and workload managers, including support for interconnect protocols such as RoCE, RDMA, and OFED.
Provides the quality and robustness that come from over a decade of production usage by HP customers
Full compliance with the MPI 1.2 and MPI 2.2 standards.
Worldwide HP support

Platform Application Center

Unified web-based interface for workload administration, submission and management
Integrated application support with scripting guidelines and job submission templates (standard templates for most commonly used commercial applications and a template builder for all other applications)
A powerful interface builder to easily assemble standard web components into its easy-to-use application interfaces
Comprehensive monitoring and reporting for easy troubleshooting

What's New

Adds latest technologies from Platform LSF, HP-MPI and Platform Application Center, which includes the latest design in web-based interfaces, robust workload management and workload monitoring
Integrated with HP Insight CMU, including Platform LSF job monitoring and management
Updated Hardware Support to include next generation HP ProLiant servers

At A Glance

Platform LSF Workload Management

Platform LSF is a very popular and powerful workload manager, ideal for demanding, distributed high performance computing environments. It includes a rich set of policies for scheduling and prioritizing jobs based on combinations of static and dynamic system attributes. An extremely reliable, and richly configurable network-based queuing system provides maximum flexibility and central administration of all work in the cluster while ensuring that all work submitted to the cluster runs to completion. The software also includes comprehensive job management such as tracking and control.
Dynamic OS multi-boot provides the capability to deploy multiple operating systems versions concurrently on the same cluster. Then, based on job resource requirements, Platform HPC automatically boots the Linux or Windows operating system required to run the job.
Full compatibility with HP Insight CMU for simplified job management

HP-MPI Library

A high performance and production quality implementation of the Message-Passing Interface standard for HP servers and workstations, for both the Linux and Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
A tight integration with the workload management capabilities in Platform LSF allows task level resource tracking for MPI jobs.
HP-MPI uses enhancements whenever appropriate to provide low latency and high bandwidth point-to-point and collective communication routines. It supports multi-protocol execution of MPI applications on clusters of shared-memory servers so that applications can take advantage of the shared memory for intra-node communications.
HP- MPI supports multiple interconnects and enables the customer to build a single executable that transparently takes advantage of the supported high performance interconnects. This greatly reduces the efforts of customers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to make their applications available on the latest and greatest interconnect technologies on Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
HP customers have been benefiting from HP-MPI on HP-UX and Linux clusters for over a decade. Users choosing HP-MPI now have a high performance and production ready MPI implementation that is the same across Linux and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Models
Licensing and Media Options	HP HPC Linux Value Pack
	HP High Performance Computing Linux Value Pack 1 Processor Flexible License NOTE: This part number can be used to purchase multiple licenses with a single activation key. Each license is for one socket (a.k.a. processor). Customer will receive a printed end user license agreement and license entitlement certificate via physical shipment. The license entitlement certificate must be redeemed online in order to obtain a license key. NOTE: Only one certificate is shipped for multiple-quantity licenses. NOTE: This is a perpetual license. NOTE: Public sector pricing is available by request to HP Product Management.	TC293B
	HP High Performance Computing Linux Value Pack Media Kit NOTE: This part number can be used to purchase media including software and documentation, which will be delivered to the customer. NOTE: HP HPC Linux Value Pack software can also be downloaded from the HP Software Depot website.	TC294A
Software Product Services	A variety of service options are available from HP. For more information, contact your local HP account representative or distributor. Information is also available from: http://www.hp.com/hps/software

Standard Features

HP HPC Linux Value Pack-Comprehensive Set of Workload Management Features	User friendly, topology aware job scheduling Robust workload monitoring and reporting Dynamic operating system multi-boot GPU-aware scheduling Fairshare Job preemption Advanced reservation Resource reservation Adaptive SLA scheduling that self-tunes based on job execution history Core-aware scheduling Dynamically resizable jobs Dynamic run-time estimation Cluster topology awareness

HP HPC Linux Value Pack - Ease of Use Features	Web-based interface for access anywhere Application-centric job submission interfaces including scripting guidelines and out of box job submission templates for most commonly used commercial applications, as well as customizable templates for integrating other applications

HP HPC Linux Value Pack - Web-based Interface	Job submission, monitoring and control File upload / download SSL support for secure access Resource & performance monitoring Monitor clusters, queues, hosts, projects, users & jobs Event based alerts Status summaries Trending information

HP HPC Linux Value Pack - Insight CMU Integration	Monitor LSF job states on per node or per cluster basis, job states including number of pending jobs, running jobs, exit jobs, done jobs and suspend jobs Start, stop and monitor LSF daemons.

HP-MPI - Supports MPI 1.2 and full MPI 2.2 Standard functionality	Dynamic processes One-sided communications Extended collectives Thread safety Current ROMIO

HP-MPI - Supports multiple interconnects

Shared Memory (Linux, Windows)
TCP/IP (Linux) Support for interconnect protocols such as RoCE, RDMA, and OFED.
InfiniBand
- SDR, DDR, QDR, ConnectX, ConnectX2
- Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution OFED 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (Linux), WinOF 2.0.x, 2.1, 3.0.0 (Windows)
- uDAPL Standard 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 (Linux)
- Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA) 2.0
Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect™ with CUDA drivers.
Myrinet® GM-2 (Linux) & MX (Linux, Windows)
QLogic PSMLinux)
Intra-node communication via shared-memory (Linux, Windows)

HP-MPI - Debugging and profiling tools

Diagnostic library that provides message signature analysis, object space corruption detection, multiple buffer-write detection.
Dynamic Multi-Parallel Processing Environment (MPE) support
Dynamic Library interface providing run-time enablement of 3rd party MPI profile libraries
Light weight profiling tools that provide important run-time statistics to help users to understand communication patterns and message-passing usages.
Supports DDT, TotalView and Intel Trace Collector (Linux)

HP- MPI - Reliability	Large automated test suite Tested with selected ISV apps prior to general release

HP- MPI - Other features	Studio processing Signal propagation (Linux) Large Message Interface (support for messages > 2GB) CPU Affinity and NUMA control High Availability features Process accounting Auto-double FORTRAN extension Application cleanup Available with both archive and shared libraries

Warranty

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Complementary Products	HP Cluster Management Utility

Hardware Support

HPC-LVP is supported on HP ProLiant DL-series, BL-series and SL-series servers, as well as the HP WS460c Workstation Blade, the ProLiant ML370 G6 and the ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server. HPC-LVP can also be supported on other servers, including non-HP servers. For more information, please contact your HP sales representative.

Each server can be connected to the others with a valid system interconnect that could be Gigabit, 10 Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand.

All SATA/MDL/SSD/SAS hard disk drives configurations are supported, provided that those drives are supported by the servers.

Operating Systems

Linux® on x64 architectures including RHEL 2.1, 3, 4, 5.x, 6,x. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server including SLES 8, 9, 10, 11 and generic Linux distributions using 2.6 or greater kernels with glibc 2.3 (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux and others).
Linux on ia64 systems including RHEL 4,5, SLES 9,10,11 and generic Linux distributions using 2.6 kernels and glibc 2.3 and later.
Microsoft Windows® on x32 & x64 platforms including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 & 2008 standard & enterprise editions, Windows HPC server 2008

Other product information

Additional product materials are available from the HP-MPI web pages at: http://www.hp.com/go/mpi

Related Options

Service and Support Offerings (HP Care Pack Services)	HP 1 year 9x5 HPC Linux Value Pack 1 Processor Flexible License Software Support	U0L71E
	HP 1 year 24x7 HPC Linux Value Pack 1 Processor Flexible License Software Support	U0L72E
	HP 3 year 9x5 HPC Linux Value Pack 1 Processor Flexible License Software Support	U0L73E
	HP 3 year 24x7 HPC Linux Value Pack 1 Processor Flexible License Software Support	U0L74E

Environment-friendly Products and Approach	End-of-life Management and Recycling	Hewlett-Packard offers end-of-life HP product return, trade-in, and recycling programs in many geographic areas. For trade-in information, please go to: http://www.hp.com/go/green. To recycle your product, please go to: http://www.hp.com/go/green or contact your nearest HP sales office. Products returned to HP will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner. The EU WEEE directive (2002/95/EC) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard web site at: http://www.hp.com/go/green. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as HP OEM customers who integrate and re-sell HP equipment.

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