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Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks

 

"With the Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks, customers can get a pre-integrated set of best-in-class software tools that install in minutes and are ready for immediate deployment," said Bill Magro, Manager, Cluster Software, Intel® Corp.

Product Overview

The new Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks includes everything developers need to build HPC applications in a single integrated package that installs in under five minutes - start compiling and running your HPC applications right away! The new Roll consists of pre-configured C/C++/Fortran compilers, debuggers, math & message passing libraries, and other software development tools that help you immediately compile, debug, run, and optimize HPC applications for an Intel-based cluster, grid, or server. Included with the Roll are complete C/C++ and Fortran 95 compilers from both Intel® and Absoft, Absoft's industry leading Fx2™ Debugging Solution, several pre-built message passing libraries (Intel® MPI Library, LAM/MPI, MPICH-2, MPICH) the Intel® Cluster Math Kernel Library, the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives, the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector, the Absoft Modules Environment, Absoft Examples and Benchmarks, several HPC math libraries, and twelve months of free technical support from Absoft.

The Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks is compatible with most 64-bit x86/x64 hardware configurations running Linux.

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Key Benefits
  • The Roll is pre-configured, and installs instantly and effortlessly. It just works!
  • Result of collaboration between Absoft and Intel to ensure maximum performance and ease of use
  • 'Best of Breed' software tools from different vendors ensures maximum performance
  • Exclusive Absoft Modules Environment allows you to easily select & switch between different tools and automatically reconfigure your environment at any time. Developers now can spend more time coding and less time trying to make their development environment work.
  • Premier support and product maintenance included (along with free service packs and quick fixes)
  • Gives you peace of mind that any questions or problems you have will be handled in a quick and prompt manner
  • Absoft phone and email support for all included components
  • Specially designed for Platform Rocks

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Key Features
  • Complete Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks includes:
    • Intel® Fortran Compiler
    • Intel® C++ Compiler
    • Absoft Standard Fortran for Linux
    • Absoft C/C++ Technology Preview
    • Fx2 Debugging Solution – for developer efficiency
    • Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector
    • Intel® Cluster Math Kernel Library
    • Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
    • Intel® MPI Library
    • LAM MPI, MPICH-2, MPICH – for parallel execution
    • Absoft Modules Environment (AME)
    • Absoft Examples and Benchmarks
    • pre-configured HPC Math Libraries
    • 12 months maintenance and support from Absoft
  • Pre-configured 'Best of Breed' software tools which install easily and quickly - start developing and running applications within minutes
  • Complete solution. Included tools support automatically parallelizing and vectorizing serial code
  • Supports popular commercial and open source MPI stacks
  • 12 months of technical support, maintenance and updates at no additional charge
  • Roll supports NPACI Rocks, Platform Rocks, 64-bit Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors

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Product Description

The Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks is a comprehensive kit featuring best of breed software development tools that enable developers to achieve maximum performance from clusters and grids based on Intel processors. The Roll installs in less than five minutes and pre-configures the latest products from Intel (C/C++/Fortran Compilers, Cluster Math Kernel Library, Message Passing Implementation (MPI), Integrated Performance Primitives and Trace Analyzer and Collector for MPI application tuning), along with Intel-ready versions of the popular LAM/MPI and MPICH message passing libraries. The latest products from Absoft are also pre-configured and include: C/C++/Fortran compilers, Fx2™ Debugging Solution, Modules Environment, comprehensive documentation, examples and benchmarks. All components in the Roll include one year of Absoft technical support and free upgrades. The Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks is designed for 64-bit Intel-based Linux clusters and grids allowing software developers to instantly begin compiling and running HPC applications on their new Intel-based clusters or grids running Platform Rocks.

Platform Rocks is a commerically supported and enhanced impementation of the open source cluster management toolkit, NPACI Rocks. Platform Rocks provides customers a standardized tool to simplify management and make it easy and cost-effective for users to rapidly deploy, configure and monitor their cluster environment.

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Special Features
  • Examples and benchmarks assist you to get up and running quickly
  • Comprehensive documentation for all components included with installation
  • Absoft user guide quickly points you to key features of included software
  • AME modules included for all Intel and Absoft components to quickly choose 32-bit and 64-bit tools and MPI stacks
  • License servers pre-configured for Intel and Absoft products

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Performance

Innovative, industry-leading 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor-based systems meet the high-performance demands for modern customers with a proven roadmap in 64-bit computing. 64-bit systems offer customers technology solutions that capitalize on the growing demand for 64-bit applications.

64-bit servers provide:

  • Large memory capabilities
  • Advanced floating point computing
  • 64-bit addressability
  • Tuned compilers from Absoft and Intel®

These features allow companies to take full advantage of Intel® Xeon™ processor technology to deliver high-performance applications, backed by a proven architecture.

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Ease of Use

The Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks installs just by inserting the CD during your Rocks cluster installation. The Roll allows you to quickly deploy your cluster with a ready-to-go comprehensive development environment.

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Availability Date

General Availability: - shipping April 5, 2006

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System Requirements

Recommended Minimum

  • 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor
  • 256MB RAM
  • 130MB HD space

The Roll is specially designed and optimized for 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ architecture. The specific operating system versions supported are:

  • Platform Rocks 4.0 (Whitney)
  • NPACI Rocks 4.0 (Whitney)
  • NPACI Rocks 4.1 (Fuji)

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Try and Buy

No evaluations are available for Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks.

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Debugger Options

Fx2™ Debugger — included with the Roll

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Compatibility and Companion Products

The following products are available for use with Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks:

Additional third party products can be found on Fortran resources.

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Technical Support

Full technical support from friendly technicians is included at no additional charge with each new product from Absoft. To ensure your software continues running at maximum efficiency, all registered Absoft customers can download service packs and quick fixes at no charge. Customers and partners can subscribe to Absoft's free electronic mailing list to receive electronic bulletins and update notices advising of new updates, changes in product releases, new product announcements and other news.

The Roll includes 12 months of FREE technical software support from Absoft Corporation. Support on all components of the Roll is provided by Absoft's friendly technical support engineers. With Absoft as the single point of contact customers receive answers faster and save time and money while taking advantage of Absoft's 20 years experience as a developer and software solutions provider for Intel based applications.

Intel selected Absoft Corporation as the partner to provide this complete development solution for customers. The Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks provides customers with a full set of the highest caliber tools for the compile, debug, run, optimize process of application development.

Absoft is the best choice for a single point of contact for customers to purchase the Roll and receive top quality support.

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Order Information

Product name: Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks

Orders: Contact sales

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Terms and Conditions

Agreement: Absoft Software License Agreement.

Intel® C++ Compilers End User License Agreement
Intel® Fortran Compilers End User License Agreement
Intel® Cluster Math Kernel Library End User License Agreement
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives End User License Agreement
Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector End User License Agreement
Intel® MPI Library End User License Agreement

Limited warranty applies: Yes

Warranty: Absoft and its Licensors warrant that the media on which the software is supplied shall be free of defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase. For additional warranty information, see the Absoft Software License Agreement.

Premier Technical Support

Premier Technical Support includes free technical assistance for routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to) questions, limited code-related questions, access to the Absoft user forum and FAQ's and access to friendly technical support engineers via fax, email or telephone during normal support hours. Premier Technical Support is at no charge is as long as the purchased product version is current.

Please contact Absoft directly for further details or questions on Technical Support.

Disclaimer: Premier Technical Support cannot be used as a tutorial to assist in the design and development of applications, use of programs in other than their specified operating environment, provide instructions on general system operation or explore failures caused by products for which Absoft is not responsible under this agreement.

Initial Software Maintenance (ISM)

Initial Software Maintenance includes free electronic downloads of all interim Service Packs and Quick Fixes from Absoft. Version upgrades require separate purchase but at discounted prices.

Continuing Software Maintenance (CSM)

At the conclusion of the Initial Software Maintenance term (i.e. when a new version of the purchased product is released) customers may either purchase a Product Upgrade or within 30 days of the new product release, purchase Continuing Software Maintenance (CSM) for an additional 12 month maintenance term. Continuing Software Maintenance includes all elements of Premier Technical support plus all Product Upgrades issued during the 12 month Continuing Software Maintenance term. Annual renewals of Software Maintenance will be made available at low-cost to customers who renew within their unexpired Maintenance term.

For users electing not to renew Continuing Software Maintenance and having expired maintenance terms but later wishing to rejoin CSM, Reinstatement Software Maintenance (RSM) terms may be purchased.

Third party products distributed by Absoft are subject to license terms and policies of their respective manufacturers.

Please contact Absoft directly for further details or questions on Technical Support or Software Maintenance.

MaxFlex Flexible Licensing available: No

Floating Network Licenses available: Yes

Volume orders: Yes. Contact Absoft sales directly.

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Pricing for Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks

Contact sales@absoft.com with your hardware configuration and number of concurrent users for special introductory pricing.

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