This way, vendors of parallel software can build their applications on a basic cluster platform, trusting certain components to be present.
It is not only deployed by the vendor, the integrator and the end user to verify the system, it can also be used to troubleshoot an operational cluster.
According to IDC, more than half of the servers currently sold for technical applications is deployed as part of a cluster.
IDC expects clustered systems to responsible for more than three-quarters of the high-performance technical computing market.
According to Werner Krotz-Vogel, Technical Marketing Engineer at Intel's Cluster Ready team, the Math Kernel Library (MKL) runs even faster than the open source library Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS) on an AMD Opteron system.