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.
Red Hat HPC Solution and Red Hat 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 |