Objective: R Systems is a service provider offering cloud and traditional computing resources. The com- pany continually seeks out innovative, leading edge technologies to provide researchers with the best supercomputing resources available at a significantly lower cost than in-house systems. To do this, R Systems needed to find technology that provided increased flexibility when dealing with its hardware resources and unforeseen de- mand. The company also needed to be able to isolate and secure research organizations work- ing in clusters, so includes this as a requirement for all new technology implementations. Approach: After learning about ScaleMP from a Beowulf cluster list, Greg Keller, principal of R Systems, initially deployed vSMP Foundation for SMP since it was the o

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