Overview of Red Hat's High Performance and Grid Computing Portfolio

Red Hat offers two distinct solutions that cover the full spectrum of needs for customers interested in deploying a high performance or grid computing cluster.

Red Hat HPC Solution

The Red Hat HPC Solution provides the essential tools for department level high performance computing at a value conscious price.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid has a more exhaustive feature set that gives users more options and broader capabilities for setting up and managing a high performance or grid computing cluster. It incorporates next generation datacenter technologies, such as virtualization and cloud computing.For more info click here

Red Hat HPC Solution and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid comparison

Customer Requirements	Red Hat HPC Solution	Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid
Budget requirements:	Modest	Moderate
Cluster available to:	A single department	A single department or the entire enterprise
Types of resources that can be managed:	Physical servers (in the same datacenter)	Physical servers and desktops/workstations (running locally or remotely) as well as virtual guests and cloud computing
Number of resources that can be managed:	1 - 500 nodes	1 to 10,000 or more nodes
Range of cluster management and job scheduling features:	Essential	Exhaustive
Typical workloads:	Traditional parallelized applications	Any application

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