[Beowulf] ever heard of ScaleMP?

laytonjb at charter.net laytonjb at charter.net
Tue Dec 11 07:19:07 PST 2007


---- Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote: 
> there's a company, ScaleMP, which seems to be selling some kind of 
> kit which enables to fairly large shared-memory x86_64 systems.
> their website is nearly useless (http://www.scalemp.com/), but a little
> more info can be had from SGI, which apparently uses ScaleMP for their
> f1200 product (rebadged Ciara?).
> 
> 
> SGI seems to aim it purely at structural/cfd/crash sims - 
> mainly using Abaqus and related tools.

Abaqus is now MPI capable (the first of the implicit FEM codes that I know
of). So ScaleMP isn't needed for the newer version of Abaqus.

Jeff



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