Due to increased demand, Advanced Clustering is now offering Managed HPC Services for those customers who want to focus on other responsibilities. We will monitor your HPC infrastructure with health checks, analysis, security patches, and disaster recovery. What Our Managed HPC Services Package Includes But is not Limited to: Support for end users Operating system updates and security patches Monitoring the system for any hardware faults or issues that need attention Dedicated customer support during business hours 5 days a week Application installation and optimization Learn more ..read more

There are a number of grants that provide funding for HPC hardware equipment. While the National Science Foundation grants remain among the most well-known HPC grant sources, there are others that include the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy. Here is our list of HPC grant sources that you should consider whenever you’re looking for new ways to fund HPC hardware projects. Grant opportunities for HPC equipment acquisitions. You might also want to download our white paper about best practices for HPC grant proposal writing. The post FYI: Grants for HPC equipment purchase ..read more

Balancing the needs of your users is one of the most important and time-consuming aspects of managing your HPC cluster. User management is just one of the ways ClusterVisor, our cluster management software solution, was designed to help you. Today we are offering a detailed look at how ClusterVisor accomplishes this for you. Feature Highlight: Simplifying the Challenges of User Management by Using ClusterVisor The challenges of managing your cluster’s users are numerous. Just to name a few …. staying on top of the ever-growing user base assisting users with password recovery safeguarding agai ..read more

Advanced Clustering Technologies will be attending the 3rd OAK Supercomputing Conference on the Wichita State University campus the week of May 20th. Let us know if you’d like to meet with us during the event and we’ll be happy to get a meeting scheduled. the OAK conference is a series of semi-annual conferences in the southwest and midwest regions that will bring together supercomputing experts, researchers, and students from across the nation for a discussion and exploration of the latest trends, topics and technologies in high performance computing and related fields. The main topics t ..read more

Advanced Clustering Technologies today launched the newest version of ClusterVisor, the HPC cluster management software solution. The launch followed a live webinar announcing the new features and functionality that was broadcast at 1 p.m. Central time via ZOOM. Among the new features discussed in the webinar: Completely redesigned web user interface Role based access control End user facing components Enhanced monitoring alerts LogVisor AI New upgrade tool Lots of other changes and bugfixes Watch the ClusterVisor webinar here: https://youtu.be/qWYIr9iW_tM ClusterVisor is available to exis ..read more

Advanced Clustering Technologies has just announced the latest version of its ClusterVisor cluster management software solution will be available following a launch webinar at 1 p.m. Central on Tuesday, Feb. 20. Register for the webinar here. ClusterVisor provides the tools necessary to deploy, provision, manage, monitor, and maintain an HPC cluster for its lifetime. The software can be installed in the traditional way on the head node or login node but there are many advantages to installing it via the ClusterVisor appliance, a dedicated 1U server that can easily support hundreds of nodes. T ..read more

If you are you looking for a complete cluster management solution for your HPC cluster, you should consider ClusterVisor. Our cluster manager software gives you everything you need to deploy, provision, manage, monitor, and maintain your HPC cluster for its lifetime. We have just added some important new features. Chief among them is LogVisor AI, our log file analysis tool for which we trained an AI model to search through the endless flow of log file messages in order to turn error and failure warnings into actionable alerts for you. ClusterVisor simplifies cluster management and also gives y ..read more

What if it was possible to manage, monitor and maintain your HPC cluster from a single software tool? And back up everything with the same solution, acting as a disaster recovery tool? You could create rack diagrams. And create monitoring alerts based on any metric that matters to you. You could integrate with SLURM job data. You could create custom dashboards that highlight the data that matters most to you. And give your users the ability to do the same. You could use the built-in node and image cloner. You could manage users and get help with account creation and password recovery. All of t ..read more

Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced that the high performance computing systems integrator will launch a new log file analysis tool called LogVisor AI during the Supercomputing conference (SC23) next month in Denver. LogVisor AI analyzes log files and re-organizes the data, bringing forward items deemed critical to the health and proper functions of the system.   Since log files can be littered with thousands of messages, LogVisor AI, using Advanced Clustering’s custom built AI model, can help filter out the critical messages, finding the needle in the proverbial haystack. “Y ..read more

We are excited to announce the latest version of ClusterVisor (1.23.08) is now available.  This release not only adds many bug fixes reported by users, but a couple of major new features to stats / alerts, and stateless nodes. Here’s an overview of the new features: Stats / Alerts:ClusterVisor’s alerting mechanism has changed to be more comprehensive, and is now able to alert you on not only stats but other CV events.  The “red bell” icon in WebUI has been overhauled to make looking at and dealing with alerts much more manageable.  There are also new command line tools: “cv-ale ..read more