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By enabling high-throughput applications to be
offloaded, Symera can help make conventional
supercomputers more readily available for the
tasks that only they can perform, allowing the
high-performance computing and communication
community to realize an important savings.
Additionally, in environments where some
desktops must go without any computer or where
existing equipment has not been updated to meet
the demands of its users, buying a
supercomputer to serve the intermittent requirements
of a handful of high-end researchers is
probably not in the budget. Symera has the
potential to provide such institutions with an
important vehicle for leveraging existing hardware
investments to meet a requirement for
higher-performance while supporting the more common
needs of typical users.
Using a standard configuration of commodity personal
computers, Symera runs over a Microsoft
NT domain of networked personal computers, each
equipped with a minimum of 16MB of RAM
and a version of Windows NT version 4.0 (with
service pack 3) or newer. That's it. There are no
other system requirements. No additional software
is necessary. Programmers can submit jobs to
Symera that are written in any of a variety of
programming languages: C/C++, Visual Basic,
FORTRAN, JAVA.
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