Novell Appoints Scali To Power High-Performance Computing Centre Of Excellence
BARCELONA, Spain (BrainShare® Europe 2004), 13-09-2004
Novell Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) and Scali, today announced that
Novell has appointed Scali to power the Novell High Performance
Computing (HPC) Centre of Excellence. The Centre will serve the Europe,
Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region and is located at Scali's
facilities in Oslo, Norway.
Under the agreement,
Scali and the HPC Centre of Excellence will help customers and
Independent Software Vendors (ISV) streamline the adoption and testing
of the Linux platform. The centre is equipped with a mix of hardware
platforms and software components from leading vendors plus an
interconnect-interoperability lab to maximize the efficiency of
cross-platform testing and tuning.
"The establishment of
Scali as Novell's HPC Centre of Excellence is important for our
customers as it provides a single business critical hardware and
software testing centre that is both simple and standardized while
being easy to set-up and maintain," said Johan Rosius, Vice President,
Alliances, Novell EMEA. "Equally, the fact that Novell with Scali and
the HPC Centre of Excellence now provides a secure and complete
solution cluster testing service under one roof is vital to our ISV
partners."
Bjørn Skare, President and CEO of Scali
commented, "Scali and Novell both firmly believe that the ability to
deliver standardized and fully supported software is a critical
requirement to ensure the rapid adoption of Linux clustering in the
commercial HPC market. By establishing the Novell HPC Centre of
Excellence, we are able to deliver a fully supported and certified
solution stack together with the services and expertise to facilitate
the streamlined adoption of the Linux platform."
The
Novell HPC Centre of Excellence at Scali enables customers to test
their applications with different hardware and software components of a
HPC solution to ensure that they work effectively once deployed in a
production environment. Customers are allotted a team of dedicated
experts from Novell and Scali to design their clusters, as well as
offer design, optimization and benchmarking expertise.
Through the Centre of Excellence, Novell clients have access to the following services:
- Cluster planning and design services with architectural diagram
- Proof of concept and benchmarking facilities
- Consultation on migrating from legacy HPC solutions to Linux
- Analysis of existing infrastructure to determine what can be re-used or are potential problem areas
- Advice on software porting and performance optimization
About Scali
Scali
is a leader in delivering scalable, high-performance cluster software
and solutions. Companies and institutions are able to leverage high
performance and reliable parallel processing platforms while
substantially reducing their technology investment and improving their
price performance ratio. Scali has strategic relationships with
industry leaders such as Dell, HP, IBM and Intel. Customers include
companies such as DaimlerChrysler, Lockheed Martin and Rolls-Royce.
Founded in 1997, Scali has received venture funding from Atlas Venture,
Four Seasons Private Equity AS, Four Seasons Venture IV AS, Intel
Capital and Kongsberg Gruppen. The company is headquartered in Oslo,
Norway with sales and support presence in France, Germany, Great
Britain and the United States. (http://www.scali.com).
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) is a leading provider of information
solutions that deliver secure identity management (Novell Nsure), Web
application development (Novell exteNd) and cross-platform networking
services (Novell Nterprise), all supported by strategic consulting and
professional services (Novell Ngage). Active in the open source
community with its Ximian and SUSE LINUX brands, Novell provides a full
range of Linux products and services for the enterprise, from the
desktop to the server. Novell's vision of one Net -- a world
without information boundaries -- helps customers realize the value of
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