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Ithaca, NY – December 13, 2006 – The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), an interdisciplinary research center at Cornell University focused on providing cyberinfrastructure resources for research and education, upgraded a part of its Velocity III Cluster to Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 64-bit operating system and deployed Verari Systems Software’s (VSS) MPI/Pro®.
CTC’s Velocity III cluster is comprised of 180 Intel Dual Processor 3.6GHz Xeon machines, a portion of which, were upgraded to 64-bit operating system. CTC selected VSS’s MPI/Pro 2.1.0 a commercial version of the MPI standard, for the cluster’s message passing architecture.
VSS’s MPI/Pro 2.1.0 handles long-running, complex scientific simulations with the scalability and reliability required by Cornell researchers and CTC’s corporate program members. It supports OpenMP, a variety of compilers, and the features of MPI-2, such as one sided communication and extended collective operations. CTC has been running MPI/Pro on its production clusters since the product was first released in 1999. Verari Systems Software’s recent 64-bit version enables CTC to continue to run the latest high-performance computing software stacks.
“The newest release of MPI/Pro will allow our users’ codes to use more memory and therefore run larger, more accurate simulations,” explains David Lifka, CTC’s Technical Director for Data Intensive Computing.
“Verari Systems Software and CTC have worked successfully as partners for the last seven years. CTC choosing Verari Systems Software’s 64-bit MPI/Pro reinforces our place as a leading commercial MPI provider,” stated Jennifer Skjellum, VSS’s President.
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