Intel® Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel® ESAA)
Intel® Cluster Ready Program

The Intel® Cluster Ready program reduces the complexity of today's cluster design by providing standardized, consistent, and replicable cluster deployment-addressing the challenge to purchase, deploy, use, and manage high performance computational clusters. To learn more, begin with one of the Intel® Cluster Ready HPC Cluster recipes below and follow the steps to build the specified configuration and receive application and server Pass-Through Certification. The general steps are as follows:

  1. Sign up for the Intel Cluster Ready program as an Intel Hardware Vendor. (OEM, Platform Integrator) at http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1315.htm
  2. Download and follow one of the Intel® ESAA Cluster Ready Recipes listed here
  3. Successfully validate the cluster configuration using the Intel® Cluster Ready tools. Submit logs of the test to: cluster@intel.com
  4. Certification will result in listing on the Intel® Cluster Ready Web site and the ability to use Intel® Cluster Ready logos
  5. The cluster can be marketed and sold with confidence knowing that HPC applications will run on the cluster


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Intel® ESAA Recipe Summaries

High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL: This Intel ESAA recipe describes the steps required to build a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S5000PAL; from hardware assembly through performance testing and cluster application development. It includes various options for hardware design, interconnects, management, BIOS and OS provisioning, job schedulers, cluster tools, and cluster application development packages and runtime environments. This recipe includes instructions for Pass-Thru certification of the cluster in the Intel® Cluster Ready program.
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High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S3000PT: This Intel ESAA recipe describes the steps required to build a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S3000PT; from hardware assembly through performance testing and cluster application development. It includes various options for hardware design, interconnects, management, BIOS and OS provisioning, job schedulers, cluster tools, and cluster application development packages and runtime environments. This recipe includes instructions for Pass-Thru certification of the cluster in the Intel Cluster Ready program.
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High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S5400SF: This Intel ESAA recipe describes the steps required to build a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster based upon the Intel® Server Board S5400SF; from hardware assembly through performance testing and cluster application development. It includes various options for hardware design, interconnects, management, BIOS and OS provisioning, job schedulers, cluster tools, and cluster application development packages and runtime environments. This recipe includes instructions for Pass-Thru certification of the cluster in the Intel® Cluster Ready program.
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