bullx clusters

How do you ensure that you choose the right Extreme Computing system for your industrial or scientific applications? There are multiple options to choose from, and it is no easy task to reach the best compromise between relevant criteria: application requirements, data requirements, ease of use, and budget.

Whatever your needs – from departmental system to world-class supercomputer – Bull’s Extreme Computing experts will help you select the best options: a solution designed and sized to meet the specific requirements of your applications and your users.

Bull delivers complete, factory-built and -tested solutions that are easily and quickly integrated to your infrastructure. Bull is your unique business and technical interface for your project. Bull Extreme Computing solutions offer a unique combination of:

• cost-effective hardware, with the bullx servers and with GPGPUs;
• efficient software stack, with the bullx cluster suite for Extreme Computing, or with Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008;
• efficient architecture and sizing, turn­key solutions, with Bull’s Extreme Computing experts.

Bull expertise to design and implement your cluster

A cluster designed and sized for perfect fit with your codes – and your budget

• Small or large configuration, the size of your cluster is determined for perfect match with your needs.
• The right infrastructure to fit your compute loads: Bull clusters can include a combination of Xeon®-based nodes and NVIDIA® Tesla™ systems, all managed transparently within the bullx cluster suite and accessing the same file system.
• High bandwidth network to match communications requirements inside applications: Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand
• High performance I/O: with multi core processors and massive parallelism, access to data and file system is the real key to performance.

Expertise in computer room design and overall energy efficiency

Bull provides leading-edge products and expertise to optimize footprint, cooling and power consumption. Intelligent computer room design has as much effect on electrical consumption as the efficiency of individual devices. Bull experts can simulate the entire computer room with air flows, to optimize cooling, cabling, and rack positioning for maximum space and energy utilisation.
And with the Cool Cabinet Door, Bull proposes an energy-efficient alternative or complement to air-conditioning, by adding water-cooling at cabinet level so as to avoid releasing heat into the computer room.