• HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System (CP Workgroup System) is a single c3000 enclosure implementation of the HP Cluster Platform Express, with the most commonly selected configuration options. The CP Workgroup System comes with two hardware packages: the CP Workgroup System (Tower) is based on the HP BladeSystem c3000 Tower enclosure and the CP Workgroup System (Rack) is based on the HP BladeSystem c3000 rack enclosure. This quickspec documents the details for the CP Workgroup System (Tower). For details on the CP Workgroup System (Rack), please refer to the quickspec for the HP Cluster Platform Express.
• The simplified product menu eases configuration and ordering for solutions that require up to 8 server blade compute nodes or less, and are using Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand as the cluster interconnect
• Comprehensive single enclosure cluster offerings for high performance computing (HPC), integrating servers, networks with choice of HPC software and services
• The CP Workgroup System can be deployed easier and faster, requires less space, and is suitable for small to medium businesses, as well as HPC workgroup teams who may have constraints in space, power and cooling capacity, and limited local IT support.
• Customers who need more computing capacity than the HP CP Workgroup System should consider the HP Cluster Platform Express which is a single rack solution, or the HP Cluster Platforms which are the most scalable cluster configurations with up to 1024 nodes (larger clusters can be supported via custom configuration). See: http://www.hp.com/go/clusters for more information.
• Software options include the Linux or Windows operating system, cluster management (HP CMU or Platform HPC for Insight Control Environment for Linux (ICE-LX)),) and HP-MPI, with optional in-factory installation. Complementary HPC software products are offered by HP, tested and supported on HP Cluster Platforms by leading developers of cluster tools and applications. In additional, the HP ProLiant HPC Partner Software Suite is also available for customers wishing a broad coverage of infrastructure software including: compilers and cluster development tools, Job Management, Grid Resource Management, and Storage Management solutions suited for both Linux and Windows environments.
• Clusters are assembled to worldwide design specifications developed, tested and supported by HP. Configured and tested within HP Integration centers, with final integration at customer site (unpacking, assembling, power up and check).
• HP Consulting and Integration services offered include: Start-up Services and Knowledge Transfer, Cluster Implementation Program Management, Quickstart Services, including applications migration, and On-site Training.

HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System is available from HP Sales Representatives and HPC-Certified Resellers, utilizing Cluster Platform Express configurators. Quotes can be requested by submitting a form available at the following web site: http://www.hp.com/go/cp-express.

Basic Architecture Components: Nodes

• One control node is included per cluster. Choice of node is often based on capability to support external networks and/or attached storage. Optionally, a storage blade (SB40c) can be added adjacent to the control node (not available when a BL2x220c is selected as the control node) in the enclosure for expanded direct-attached storage. When InfiniBand is selected as the high performance interconnects, a host-based InfiniBand subnet manager software will also be running on the control node to establish and manage the InfiniBand.
• Compute (or application) nodes: nodes are primarily used for application computation, rather than administrative workloads. Control and compute nodes should belong to the same processor family.

Basic Architecture Components: Networks

• InfiniBand Interconnect: an optional dedicated network to support internodes communication traffic (such as MPI communications) and file transfer. To add the InfiniBand interconnect option, a HP 4X DDR IB switch module must be selected and installed in switch bays 3&4, a HP 4X DDR mezzanine HCA card must be selected and added on each server blades (control node and compute nodes), and Voltaire InfiniBand software (driver and the host-based subnet manager) be selected. Both IB driver and the IB subnet manager have to be either from Cisco or from Voltaire - a mix and match is not supported. The host-based subnet manager from Voltaire (BladeFM) is supported on Linux only.
• Administrative network: The administrative network facilitates administration and management of the cluster, such as management of the user's applications. The Gigabit Ethernet admin network can also be shared with the internodes communication traffic (such as MPI communications).
• One console network provides access to the node's console network, enabling use of node-specific command functions such as power on. This network is provided by the iLO port on the Onboard Administrator (OA) in the c3000 enclosure.

Basic Architecture Components: Infrastructure

• HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure (Tower) is a single-phase enclosure available worldwide for use with in-rack PDUs & UPSs or alternatively, in countries with low-line (100VAC to 110VAC) power outlets, the enclosure's power supplies can be connected directly to low-line wall outlets.
  • NOTE: Caution: when connecting directly to wall outlets, customers should determine the maximum amperage of the wall outlet circuit to prevent power overload.

Basic Architecture Components: Software
The following components are available on the HP Cluster Platform product menu, and can be factory installed by HP except where otherwise noted:

• Operating systems options
  • Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE SLES are available per node, or in HPC 8 packs. . .
  • HPC 8 packs require purchase of one 10-incident Care Pack from HP Services, unless systems are covered by broad HP Service agreement for Linux support.
  • Microsoft® Windows HPC Server™ 2008.
• Cluster management software options
  • HP CMU is available installed with Red Hat or SUSE software OS selections, and with optional HP-MPI integration.
  • Platform HPC for ICE-LX enables deployment and administration of an HPC cluster with choice of open source components, fully supported by HP and Platform Computing. TPlatform HPC for ICE-LX is not offered factory integrated.
  • Microsoft HPC Server 2008 provides the components which are added onto the Windows OS to provide an HPC server. This includes a combination of interfaces, utilities, and management infrastructure (e.g., Job Scheduler) that are commonly used in HPC environments.

• Tower: a single HP BladeSystem c3000 Tower enclosure with up to 8 HP ProLiant BL blade servers
  
• Rack: a single HP BladeSystem c3000 (rack) enclosure with up to 8 HP ProLiant BL blade servers and 1 (optional) HP ProLiant DL server as the control node, in a 22U rack. See more details in the quickspec for the HP Cluster Platform Express.

All currently shipping processors for each control node are available. Select one or two processors

HP ProLiant BL460c G6 is available with DDR3 Unbuffered or Registered DIMMs. Maximum memory is 96GB per node.

All currently shipping processors for each control node are available. Select one or two processors

HP ProLiant BL280c G6 is available with DDR3 memory. Maximum memory is 96GB per node.

All currently shipping processors for each control node are available. Select one or two processors per server (two or four per blade/node).

HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 is available with PC2-5300 DDR2 memory. Maximum memory is 32GB per node (64Gb per blade).

All currently shipping processors for each control node are available. Select one or two processors

HP ProLiant BL465c G5 is available with PC2-5300 or PC2-6400 memory. Maximum memory is 64GB per node.

InfiniBand DDR fabric is based on the HP 4X DDR IB Switch Module for HP BladeSystem c-Class. The HP 4X DDR IB mezzanine HCA has to be configured with each server blades, and IB software and host-based subnet manager (running on control node) must be configured (see above node configuration for more details).

The administrative GbE2c Gigabit Ethernet switch integrated in the enclosure. Access to the console network is provided by the iLO port on the OA.

• Full set of industry standard Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 features
  
• Sixteen internal downlinks and five uplinks and two internal cross-connects
  
• Wire speed switching on all sixteen 1Gb server ports
  
• Wire speed switching on all five 10/100/1000T uplink ports

A keyboard/monitor (not provided) is needed for initial set up of the enclosure and serer blades.

HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure supports up to 6 1200W AC Power Supplies.

NOTE: Minimum one power supply is required. To determine the number of power supplies required for the configuration, please use the HP BladeSystem Power Calculator.
NOTE: Select one wall outlet power cord for each power supply when plugging the power supplies into a wall outlet. Wall Outlet power cords should only be used with low-line (100v to 110V) power sources. If high-line power outlets are required, safety regulations require the use of a PDU or a UPS between the c3000 enclosures power supplies and wall outlets. Order the appropriate power cord for your countries standard electrical outlets.
Please refer to the QuickSpecs of the HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure for more details http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/division/division.html#12831

Linux

• Red Hat EL (1 year and 3 year subscriptions)
  • Standalone server RH EL
  • HPC RHEL 8-pack 2P License
  • HPC RHEL Single Node 2P License
• SUSE SLES (1 year and 3 year subscriptions)
• Standalone SLES server licenses
• HPC 8 packs: 1-8 processor nodes

HPC 8 pack ordering information

• Order one base kit for the 1st eight compute nodes: A standalone server subscription is recommended for control node (for SUSE SLES, the base kit includes the subscription for the control node in addition to the first eight subscriptions for compute nodes. A standalone subscription is not necessary for the control node).
• Order add-on kits to cover remaining compute nodes (1 kit per 8 nodes in case of SUSE SLES, 1 kit per node in case of RHEL)
• 8 packs require purchase of HPS 10 incident care pack (one per cluster - extension A for physical; E for electronic)

Windows

• Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

The HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU) is designed to manage a large number of compute nodes with a Single System View GUI (Graphics User Interface). HP CMU comes with a full Java GUI that can be tailored for your needs and for any number of nodes in the cluster. HP CMU is HP SIM (System Integration Manager) level 1 integration compliant. HP CMU provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) for day-to-day administration and cloning. Through its user friendly graphical interface HP CMU provides the cluster administrator with three main features:

• Administration: From HP CMU you can administrate your cluster (eg: halt, boot reboot, power off, broadcast commands from a single keyboard session)
  
• Cloning: For the first installation or for future updates, the cluster administrator has the capability to propagate a system configuration image to all or a part of the compute nodes in the cluster
  
• Monitoring: At a glance the manager can see the complete behaviour of the cluster without to painfully analyse the performance of the individual compute nodes.
  In a CMU cluster configuration, all the compute nodes must be licensed. Every management node just needs a base license that includes HP CMU distribution and documentation. HP CMU software supports HP ProLiant Intel and AMD Opteron servers running Linux.
  

NOTE: Complete information on HP CMU software, including QuickSpecs, can be found at the following URL: www.hp.com/go/cmu

HP's implementation of the Message Passing Library, HP-MPI, is offered as an option with Cluster Platform Express. HP-MPI complies with the MPI-1.2 and MPI-2 standards and is a high performance, robust, high quality, native implementation. HP-MPI enhancements provide optimized point-to-point and collective communication routines. HP-MPI is available for both Linux and Windows.

HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System warranty and service options are based on the offerings of the underlying components.

HP customer support provides onsite hardware break/fix support and remote, remedial software call-center support. Customer support offsite software services include level 1 and 2 support:

• Level 1 is defined as everyday user/system administration issues.
  
• Level 2 is defined as problems related to installation and configuration, along with other problems not solvable by following the vendor-supplied documentation.
  

The HP software support team will work in parallel with the appropriate vendor and development groups to address level 3 and 4 support elevations:

• Level 3 elevations typically require that patches and modifications be generated by the vendor to resolve deficiencies in the product.
  
• Level 4 elevations deal with enhancements in the functionality of the product that will typically be included in future releases.
  Optional customer services
  

HP has experience servicing systems, networks, storage devices, and software for HPC deployments and environments of all sizes. A wide range of purchasing options and solutions built from standards-based service modules ensure the service coverage and the level of expert assistance desired.

Optional services may be purchased at the time of the product purchase as HP Care Pack services, easy to order and easy to use service packages. Optional services may also be purchased at a later point of time as HP Contractual or Per-Event Services to extend and/or expand and/or complement the standard product warranty.

Hardware Support: Service capabilities include total lifecycle support, preventive and diagnostic services, access to a global service network, and support for an array of third-party peripherals.

Hardware Support Services offer a full range of high-quality remote and onsite hardware support options to meet specific response or repair-time objectives. These support options range from next-day or 4-hour onsite response to 6-hour call-to-repair time commitments. To accommodate specific hours of operations, coverage window options range from standard business hours (9x5), Monday-Friday 8am-5pm local time up to 24x7.

Software Support: Standard software support includes 9x5 telephone support and rights to new versions for the specified period of time (one year or three years). 24x7 software support extends the telephone support window to round-the-clock access. Standard software support includes customer access to technical resources during standard hours (see later), problem analysis, escalation management, and resolution. HP also provides unlimited access to an electronic facility that includes a knowledge database with known symptoms and solutions, software product descriptions, specifications, and technical literature.

Software support contracts can be obtained to meet the needs of customers, including remedial technical remote support along with migration and upgrade planning and a full suite of proactive deliverables.