Locuz adds HPTC and related Storage Infrastructure Management to its Remote Managed Operations Business
Locuz has been a leading Technology Infrastructure and Remote Managed Operations company and now has complimented its existing Systems Integration skills of HPC. Locuz has over half dozen customers for whom they manage critical HPC and related storage infra remotely from its NOC/SOC in Hyderabad.
Tweet-- With over 30 HPC units designed-installed-managed across different Industries, Locuz is the leading provider of services and solutions in the HPC and related Storage Infrastructure space in India. Among the implementations are clusters that are as big as 2TF over parallel file access to 30TB of Storage; and the Industries include Life Sciences, VLSI, Computational Chemistry, Material Science, Animation and Rich Media (Render farm), Defense etc.
One of the recent projects was awarded by NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences), Bangalore a GoI Institute for setting up and managing cluster of 1.3TF build on Sun Servers with AMD processors and Infiniband interconnect to run applications that include GENESIS, MOOSE, and few other Bio apps. Locuz ensured a well optimized parallel environment was built and for this GEN2 and MPICH2 stack was used.
"We are happy that Locuz has been able to deliver a solution to our rather demanding specifications, and is now maintaining the cluster as per an SLA" said Dr. Upendra Bhalla, Group Leader - Computational Neuroscience Lab.
Like these Locuz has been entrusted the responsibility of managing critical HPC environments. Locuz has leveraged its Remote Managed Operations team that adopted standards in IT Infra Management using framewoks like FCAPS, ITIL and ISMS - by building tools and processes that are key to managing HPC infrastructure, said Uttam Majumdar - Chief of Consulting & PS.
Locuz NOC/SOC (also called LITOC - Locuz IT Operations Centre) now has a team, custom tools and processes to support HPC customers. Customers are seeking advantage of 24X7 monitoring which has been one of their critical requirements as jobs could run for days-to-weeks before they delivered suitable results; and could not build resources with reasonable technical knowledge to maintain such infra. The custom created dash board can not only indicate the temperature and power in the HPC Datacentre running 10’s to 100’s of servers with large volumes of Storage with Portals and GRID but also monitors the status of the job and status of distribution.
Notes to Editor
Locuz is a leading Enterprise IT Infrastructure company based out of Hyderabad, India with offices in all the major cities.
The offerings include implementation and consulting services especially in the Datacentre, Network and Security. The focus is lifecycle in any given space. Locuz is also one among the few companies that specializes HPC, GRID and HPC Storage and has some of most advanced computing facilities designed, built and managed.
The methodologies used in implementation or consulting are unique and field tested, some of them include - Identity and Access Management, Information Risk management and Business Continuity. Most of these methodologies are aligned to industry segments and thus a further more unique.
The resources including LITOC (NOC & SOC) and its trained professionals are best in class.