Penguin Computing has announced the immediate availability of Penguin Computing's Cluster Management suite Scyld ClusterWare with support for Suse Linux Enterprise Server from Novell.

Through a new 'hybrid' provisioning method, the Company said Scyld ClusterWare supports HPC clusters that run a mix of heterogeneous Linux operating systems. Suse Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux Standard Base compliant operating system that has been qualified by Penguin for 'hybrid' operation, enabling customers to take advantage of an open, standards-based operating system with outstanding multi-core performance. With Scyld Hybrid, it is now possible to use a single Scyld cluster as a compute platform for applications built for any of the two Linux Enterprise distributions.

"With this new offering, Penguin Computing is accommodating the growing demand for SUSE Linux Enterprise in high-performance computing environments," said Holger Dyroff, Vice President, Business Development, Open Platform Solutions at Novell. "Linux is the dominant operating system used for high-performance computing, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is used in more of the world's largest supercomputer