• Clustering
• IBM Clusters
• IBM System Cluster 1600
• IBM System Cluster 1350
• IBM HACMP
• IBM HACMP Extended Distance
• HA Clustering for iSeries
• Oracle RAC
• High Performance Storage for Oracle Cluster Environments

Clustering Services and Solutions

Already successful and widely used in many scientific computing environments where supercomputing power is required, clustering technology is becoming more accessible and advantageous for many business workloads.

HA Clusters

High availability clusters, or failover clusters, are designed to maximize availability by having multiple nodes that can continue to provide services when one node fails.

HPC Clusters

Often used in scientific applications like research & life sciences, petroleum exploration, and graphics rendering for engineering design workloads, high-performance clusters split computing tasks across multiple nodes in the cluster, and actively communicate results to other nodes. HPC is also used for things like weather simulation, business intelligence and data mining, financial analysis, digital media & special effects, and portfolio simulation.

Load Balancing

A load balancing cluster is optimal for busy Web applications that utilize databases such as MySQL and Oracle. One cluster normally takes all incoming traffic and distributes it among back-end nodes. Normally referred to a server farm, this configuration not only optimizes performance, it also provides high availability functionality as well.

Clustering Benefits

Configuring systems as clusters, to make them act as one large resource has a wide variety of benefits, including:

• consolidation of IT resources
• maximization of computing power
• sharing of processing power geographically
• disaster recovery
• failover protection from system failover
• scalability without downtime
• centralized management

North American Systems provides a variety of services to complement your cluster solution, helping you determine ROI and set project scope, configuring and staging an appropriate solution, and helping you install, deploy and tune a highly effective & integrated cluster computing solution that meets your business needs. Use the green button to get in contact with an account representative today to start discussing your clustered computing options. You may also contact us toll-free at 800-927-7474 or you can email us at sales@nasi.com.