StackIQ Rocks+* 5.3 Intel® Cluster Ready on Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.4 - Intel® Server Board S3420GP

This Intel® ESAA recipe describes the steps required to build an Intel® Cluster Ready HPC cluster using StackIQ Rocks+* 5.3 with Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.4 on the Intel® Server Board S3420GP - 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. It also includes instructions for Intel® Cluster Ready Pass-Through Certification.

The Intel® Server Board S3420GP is an entry server board with essential server-class features. Growing businesses need a reliable server solution for web servers, file and print servers, e-mail servers, storage servers and vertical-specific business applications. A general-purpose entry server platform plays a fundamental role in the success of a workgroup, department, small- to medium- sized business or high performance computing (HPC). The Intel® Server Board S3420GP provides server-class performance without sacrificing cost-effectiveness or reliability.