The Ideal Platform for Engineering
"We have been running our HPC cluster on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for six years now, and the environment has been 100 percent reliable," said Diehl. "We chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop for the same reason we chose SUSE Linux in the first place—we knew Novell would provide the reliability and easy management we need, as well as top-class support."
Novell understands the need for speed and utilization in engineering and offers many unique features that impact performance with SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10, such as:
- Virtualization technology
- High Availability Storage Infrastructure
- Hyper-threading technology and System Resource Affinity Table (SRAT) improvements
- NUMA development tools
- Integrated application security and system monitoring
- Integrated management tools
- Support for Microsoft Active Directory,
- Open LDAP and Novell eDirectory™
- Flexible subscriptions
- Software development kit with the latest developer toolchain
- Novell Customer Center
With the launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, engineers will feel compelled to turn to Novell for Linux both on computational servers and clusters as well as on the engineering desktop.
Computational Servers and Clusters
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is ready to deliver the highest performance, reliability, manageability and security required by your engineering department. With scalability to 1,024 CPUs, more than 10 TB of physical memory, an automated installation system (AutoYaST), remote administration (Novell ZENworks Linux Management) and world-class, enterprise-level support, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the operating system of choice for engineers.
"As well as reducing complexity on the software side, our choosing Linux means that we can select the best generic hardware from competing manufacturers - so we can achieve much better price-performance," said Hans-Ulrik von Bülow, CAE-Methods, AUDI AG.
In addition, with the new capabilities afforded by the Xen hypervisor included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, engineers can look at ways to maximize compute-capacity utilization by hosting more than one application on their expensive clusters. Engineering departments will save not only on server hardware, but on maintenance, power and floor space as well.
Engineering Desktops
At a time when the productivity of engineers is in decline, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop offers a much-awaited solution. Engineers have spent years working from dual workstations, but with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop they can finally consolidate their design workstation and office PC into one machine. Maintaining UNIX desktops and Windows licenses is expensive, and both systems require excessively expensive hardware. Moreover, engineers often share intellectual property through e-mail collaboration, which may be more vulnerable to malicious attacks when run through a Windows office and e-mail environment. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, you can work from a single, UNIX-like workstation with the added security afforded by SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop offers many new features that will excite engineers, such as:
- High-end video driver support with enhanced 3D graphics
- Office interoperability
- Hardware plug-n-play
- Multilevel security
- Mobility
- Systems management
- Software development tools
- The ability to create clean-room environments
Success Stories
"Empowered Engineering with Linux" Web Seminar Series
"Remote management of Linux systems with Novell ZENworks Linux Management," featuring Credence Systems Corporation
"Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for engineering workstations" featuring QUALCOMM Incorporated
"Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a software development environment" featuring Mentor Graphics