[Condor-users] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Grid updated

[Tushar Katarki <tkatarki@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Condor Users:

Its my pleasure to announce the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 with new features and functionality. Red Hat MRG is an integrated platform for High Performance Computing from Red Hat that is based on Condor.

MRG 2.1 Highlights:

- Integration of inventory management: With configuration management tagging into the Grid management console.
- SSL security mechanism: For the platform’s Grid Aviary API.
- High Availability (HA) for the Grid Scheduler: Through Red Hat Cluster Suite technology.
- Support for Grid Execute Node: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Compute Node variant.
- New kernel technology: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 ships today with the newest Linux kernel 3.0, bringing the latest advances in the 3.0 kernel to the platform.
- Event-based data sampling for performance measurement: Providing realtime performance data while reducing the uncertainty inherent in the act of measurement, offering a less intrusive method of performance measurement than incumbent methods.
- Messaging extended integration capabilities: Support for JBoss Enterprise SOA and Application Platforms, IPv6 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 enabling AMQP-based integration across a wider range of applications and services.
- Messaging broker advances: The broker provides the ability to maintain sequential order of messages across distributed receivers.

“Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 today brings important new features and functionality to our customers,” said Bryan Che, senior director, Product Management and Marketing at Red Hat. “We continue to evolve the functionality of the product to optimize it for a wide variety of customer use cases ranging from deploying and scheduling in the cloud to the low-latency, high-performance needs of financial services to reliable processing for telecommunications organizations and beyond.”

Please note that, Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 Realtime and Grid components are generally available today. The Enterprise MRG 2.1 Messaging component will be generally available in March.

Please also kindly note the Press Release that went out on Business Wire:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120125006000/en/Red-Hat-Updates-Messaging-Realtime-Grid-Platform

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Tushar Katarki
Sr. Product Manager
Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid
314 Littleton Road
Westford, MA 01886 USA

Email: tkatarki@xxxxxxxxxx