Grid Computing

Looking for a cheap grid computing platform to process huge quantities of data? Convergans builds High Performance Computing (HPC) grids based on Linux clusters. They support both interactive concurrent processes and batch jobs, and incorporates automatic resource discovery and dynamic workload distribution, commonly found on single computers with multiple processors.

Our grid is implemented as a software layer that allows applications to run in remote nodes as if they run locally. Users can start applications on one node, while the cluster management system automatically seek resources and transparently migrate processes to other nodes. Users do not need to modify or link applications with any library, login to remote nodes or even copy files to remote nodes.

Migrations are supervised by a comprehensive set of on-line algorithms that monitor the state of the resources and attempt to improve the overall performance by dynamic resource allocation, e.g. load-balancing.

Features

Provides a single-system image
No need to link applications with special libraries.

Efficient utilization of grid-wide resources
By automatic resource discovery and load-balancing.

Running long processes
Which are automatically sent to grid nodes and are migrated back when these nodes are disconnected from the grid.

Combining nodes of different speeds
By migrating processes among nodes based on their respective speeds, current load and available memory.

Supports Linux kernel 2.6
And both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures