IBM's new Departmental Supercomputing Solutions offer a variety of prepackaged, pretested cluster configurations that deliver easy to manage high-performance computational power at an affordable price to allow organizations with smaller budgets and staff the same world class supercomputing technology used by large organizations and prestigious labs.

Critical Software is proud to be part of IBM's Departmental Supercomputing Solution initiative by providing our WMPI II middleware to enable applications to run compute intensive algorithms in parallel across these clusters.

WMPI II is a full implementation of the second release of the MPI-2 (Message Passing Interface) standard which has become the de facto standard for developing portable parallel applications. WMPI II has been designed and tuned specifically to run on Windows and Linux clusters such as those included in the IBM Departmental Supercomputing Solution:

Cluster Compute Node Building Blocks

	IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 IBM - Up to 14 dual Intel Xeon processor blade servers in a 7U chassis.
	IBM eServer xSeriesR 335 - Dual Intel Xeon processor server in a 1U rack-optimized form-factor.
	IBM eServer 325 - Dual AMD Opteron processor server in a 1U rack optimized form factor.

Cluster Configuration Choices

	4-node cluster featuring IBM eServer xSeries 335 compute nodes in 11U rack.
	4-node cluster featuring IBM eServer 325 compute nodes in 11U rack.
	8- and 16-node clusters featuring IBM eServer xSeries 335 compute nodes in 25U rack.
	8- and 16-node clusters featuring IBM eServer 325 compute nodes in 25U rack.
	14- and 28-node clusters featuring IBM eServer BladeCenter H20 in 25U rack.
	32-node clusters featuring IBM eServer xSeries 335 compute nodes in 42U enterprise rack.
	32-node clusters featuring IBM eServer 325 compute nodes in 42U enterprise rack.

If you are interested in finding our more about IBM's Departmental Supercomputing Solutions, just click on the 'Go to IBM' link on the bottom of this page.

If you are visiting this page because you have purchased a cluster from IBM and wish to install a trial version of our software, please click on the 'Download' link at the top of this page. We are offering substantial discounts of up to 50% off our normal retail price for clients who are purchasing WMPI II to run on their IBM Departmental Supercomputing Solution cluster. Please contact us at wmpi-sales@criticalsoftware.com or phone us on +351 239989115 to find out more.

If you would like to find out more about how to integrate WMPI II with your cluster, please email us at wmpi-support@criticalsoftware.com.