Adaptive Computing and NICE Deliver Joint Work Optimization Cloud Solution

Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and experts in HPC workload management and cloud management solutions, and NICE Software, a visualization software and services company, have joined to deliver a technical visualization private cloud with Adaptive’s Moab HPC Suite and NICE Desktop cloud visualization and EginFrame products.

This solution makes it possible to view and manipulate complex 3D simulations remotely on PCs and mobile devices by centralizing physical or virtual visualization workstations to the data center and transferring pixels instead of data. The solution allows for a reduction in capital and management costs, an improvement in data processing, security, workforce collaboration and productivity and a reduction in network congestion.

A technically visualization private cloud moves the “seat of power” from workstations to a private cloud in the corporate data center. It’s natural outgrowth of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) and cloud adoption.

Moab HPC Suite is an intelligent HPC workload management solution with unique capabilities that solves the real-world challenges that academic, government, research or commercial organizations face. It accelerates productivity, automates workload uptime, and consistently meets SLAs and business priorities for HPC systems and HPC cloud.

EnginFrame is an advanced, commercially supported grid portal in the industry that enables efficient Inter-/Intranet access to grid-enabled infrastructures. The framework of EnginFrame is based on Java, XML and Web services, and facilitates deployment of user-friendly, application- and data-oriented portals.

Moab HPC Suite works with NICE DCV and EnginFrame to centralize access to visualization servers with OpenGL 3D applications, together transferring pixels instead of data and intelligently placing and managing graphics workloads as well as regular HPC cluster workloads.

“Cloud computing is transforming business, allowing greater productivity nearly anywhere to an increasingly mobile workforce. But as technical computing workforce gets more diverse and distributed, traditional workstations quickly show bottlenecks and constraints,” said Andrea Rodolico, CTO of NICE in a statement. “3D applications are in demand inside and outside of the office for employees and partners who need to process and visualize large datasets, often in geographically distributed collaborative settings. In a situation like that, computing can be a real concern. By tightly integrating DCV and EnginFrame with Moab HPC Suite, intelligent placement and management maximizes resource utilization and performance by placing and packing visualization workloads on the optimal resources using policies and ensures 3D application success.”

“By deploying visualization applications in the data center instead of on distributed workstations, and transferring pixels back to users’ systems instead of large data models, it is now possible to view and manipulate complex 3D simulations remotely on PCs and mobile devices with the NICE solution. Users can collaborate easily—anytime, anywhere—on the same session,” Michael Jackson, president and co-founder of Adaptive Computing added. “And compute resources, including GPUs, can be used more efficiently than ever before. It’s all possible thanks to the collaborative efforts with NICE.”

The solution will be demonstrated at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, June 18-20, 2012 in booth #147. ISC will host about 300 expert speakers to discuss present and future HPC-related issues, such as cloud, GPU, exascale and energy in tutorials, workshops, keynotes, BoFs, panels and other sessions.