Par-Tec.de

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ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH

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The ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH has historically evolved out of a research initiative in the early days of clustering at the University of Karlsruhe under the supervision of Prof. Walter Tichy. The outcome of this effort was a middleware layer for LINUX-based Compute Clusters named ParaStation . Starting in 1999, the newly founded company ParTec marketed this software package commercially. ParaStation was built to provide a runtime environment for parallel jobs including an optimized MPI library to support a variety of industry-standard interconnects, such as Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband. Over the following years, ParTec was able to win a remarkable number of reference customers including very big installations such as the 1000 processor ALICEnext cluster at the University of Wuppertal.

While ParTec 's business model was built entirely on selling software licenses, it became clear in 2004, that the market demanded a radically new approach for at least two reasons:

The cluster software available through open source license models had gained sufficient maturity and stability so that many of these packages provided a viable alternative to commercially available solutions. Clearly, a company-driven development effort could hardly keep pace with this evolution.

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Possartstr. 20
D-81679 Muenchen GERMANY

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