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Red Hat offers two distinct solutions that cover the full spectrum of needs for customers interested in deploying a high performance or grid computing cluster.
The Red Hat HPC Solution provides the essential tools for department level high performance computing at a value conscious price.
Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid has a more exhaustive feature set that gives users more options and broader capabilities for setting up and managing a high performance or grid computing cluster. It incorporates next generation datacenter technologies, such as virtualization and cloud computing.
| Customer Requirements | Red Hat HPC Solution | Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Budget requirements: | Modest | Moderate |
| Cluster available to: | A single department | A single department or the entire enterprise |
| Types of resources that can be managed: | Physical servers (in the same datacenter) | Physical servers and desktops/workstations (running locally or remotely) as well as virtual guests and cloud computing |
| Number of resources that can be managed: | 1 - 500 nodes | 1 to 10,000 or more nodes |
| Range of cluster management and job scheduling features: | Essential | Exhaustive |
| Typical workloads: | Traditional parallelized applications | Any application |