Welcome to the HPC/SCI Resource Room

The HPC/SCI Oil and Gas Resource Room is a service offered to HP partners and end user customers who need to benchmark, experiment, and design solutions on ProLiant servers in a clustered environment based on industry standard Linux and Windows HPCS offerings from Red Hat, Novell, and Microsoft. The Resource Room is open to all HP software partners interested in working with HP on a range of Linux and Microsoft reference solution stacks to benchmark, perform proof-of-concepts, migrate, and insure compatibility from the hardware platform to the end user application operating in an industry standard Linux or Microsoft software environment.

The latest ProLiant X86 Xeon and Opteron based servers are provided in the lab for Oil & Gas evaluations, with VPN access. Note that the operating system for the Oil & Gas servers can be specified by the user, with both Linux and Windows HPCS accommodated.

The lab is periodically refreshed with the latest models

The HP partner or HP Enterprise Account Manager or Solution Architect submits the following account request information to the HPC ISV lab mail box – mailto:sci-test-clusters@hp.com.

name, company, email,  phone number, address, name of application, and preferred login

The HPC/SCI Resource Room can support Proof of Concept projects, validation of software with existing supported Linux and Microsoft operating system versions in conjunction with the HP configured clusters as specified in the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio definitions. Please refer to http://www.hp.com/go/hptc  for a description.

The Oil & Gas lab is in Houston, and can be accessed after approval either in person on site or remotely. It is accessed via a secure VPN link directly between your remote site and the clusters to which you have been assigned.

Often refreshed with the latest ProLiant Xeon and Opteron Blades and Racked servers, interconnects, and storage. 

We have two networks of servers and blades:

• QLogic InfiniBand and ProCurve GigE
• Voltaire InfiniBand and ProCurve GigE

Write to sci-test-clusters@hp.com for details .

Connection to HPC/SCI Resource Room

HP reserves the right to monitor and audit all systems or devices connected to HP’s network and inspect, without further notice, all electronic communications, data, and information stored or transmitted on HP’s network when necessary and appropriate. HP also reserves the right to add necessary files to and modify the configuration of any connected system or device to ensure both the security and integrity of HP’s network.