High Performance Computing Success Stories
Not only do universities and research centers rely on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server as the perfect platform for their high performance scientific computing, but today enterprises and organizations such as Boeing, NASA, Audi and many others also use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in high performance environments to both design products and test for design flaws and safety requirements. In short, they use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to create highly productive computer systems.
Audi
To accelerate design cycles and minimise physical prototyping costs, Audi makes intensive use of computer-aided engineering (CAE), including crash simulation, virtual wind tunnels and other computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. Audi runs several large clusters of servers for high-performance computing for two separate solutions - one in crash simulation and one in aerodynamics and CFD - the operating system in each winning bid was SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Read the whole story +
CESGA
One of the world's largest deployments of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on HP Integrity Servers
At CESGA (Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia) HP and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are advancing high-performance computing. CESGA powers scientific research on one of the world's fastest supercomputers: an HP Cluster Platform system with 143 HP Integrity servers, SUSE Linux Enterprise and a 390TB HP StorageWorks SFS system. Watch the video +
Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre)
The Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre) operates a supercomputer for scientific research, based on the SGI Altix 4700 server platform and running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. When it was first installed and went to production, the system held world records for its 17TB globally accessible memory and 4.35TB/s memory bandwidth (Stream Benchmark), and was proven to run the world's largest single system image, running SUSE Linux Enterprise on 1,024 processors. Read the whole story +
MTU Aero Engines
"We have been running our HPC cluster on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for six years now, and the environment has been 100 percent reliable. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offers very high performance, crucial for our compute-intensive engineering applications."
MTU Aero Engines (MTU) is a leading German manufacturer of engines and engine components for civilian and military aircraft, as well as stationary industrial gas turbines. MTU has deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server throughout its organisation, from the high-performance CAE cluster to less powerful servers used to support enterprise applications such as its SAP ERP system. Read the whole story +
NASA – NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division
NASA runs three of its supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise. The RTJones Cluster is an SGI ALTIX-based supercomputer and one of multiple systems selected to evaluate next-generation technology to meet NASA's future supercomputing requirements. The system is named "RTJones" to honor the late aerodynamics pioneer Robert Thomas (R.T.) Jones.
The Columbia supercluster, also based on an SGI ALTIX system, makes it possible for NASA to achieve breakthroughs in science and engineering for the agency's missions and Vision for Space Exploration. Columbia's highly advanced architecture is also being made available to a broader national science and engineering community.
The Cray Opteron Cluster, a 64-node cluster, is the latest addition to the set of high-end computing resources at the NAS facility. The system is structured with a single "head" node, which controls the system operation and launches programs, and 63 compute nodes.
Porsche Informatik GmbH
Novell Technical Services helped Porsche Informatik deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on approximately 50 Intel-based servers from IBM and HP. The new Linux environment supports a number of application and database clusters for the CROSS2 automotive dealer management system. Although reducing the total cost of operations was an important factor in the decision to move to SUSE Linux Enterprise, Porsche Informatik's main objective was to provide a highly reliable platform that could deliver crucial services 24x7. Read the whole story +
Seoul National University (SNU)
"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offers a secure, reliable and flexible operating system that addresses the need for high performance, enterprise-class computing."
Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea's most prestigious academic institution and research center. By introducing a high-performance supercomputer based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SNU now can provide students, professors, corporations and research institutions across Korea with easy and reliable access to its supercomputing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Read the whole story +
Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech)
"Choosing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was clearly a strategic decision for us. We were confident that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server would enable us to provide students with secure, ubiquitous access, while delivering the performance and scalability needed to offer additional services in the future."
TITech envisioned building a supercomputer grid system that functioned as the central computing resource on the campus, giving all of its more than 10,000 students open access to one of the most advanced supercomputers in the world. TSUBAME, the system build on SUSE Linux Enterprise, in terms of performance and scalability delivers 85 Teraflops of computing power and currently ranks number twenty four in the world and number four in Asia among supercomputers (www.top500.org/lists/2008/06). It also features 655 nodes and 10,480 CPUs, the most of any PC cluster-based supercomputer in the world. Read the whole story +
Wehmeyer GmbH & Co. KG
The combination of Oracle RAC 10g and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives Wehmeyer a reliable, scalable, cost-effective and high-performance environment for its core store management and sales support applications. The grid architecture adds a layer of redundancy to the infrastructure, making the business less vulnerable to component or network failures, and ensuring that vital systems are available at all times. Clustering has reduced potential downtime for business users from 30 minutes to just a few seconds. Read the whole story +