By Timothy Prickett Morgan
ScaleMP, a maker of virtualization and aggregation software that allows a cluster of x64 servers to look like a big, bad, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) shared-memory system to operating systems and selected classes of applications, is going downstream to target SMBs and upstream to chase cloud infrastructure providers.
While ScaleMP wants to make a lot of noise about its vSMP Foundation for Cloud edition, which starts shipping Wednesday, the more interesting of the two products the company is introducing today - and the one that might help it expand beyond its current 150 customers - is vSMP Foundation for SMB edition, which allows for customers to create an eight-socket, aggregated, and virtualized server from four two-socket servers (and here’s the neat bit) without having to use an InfiniBand switch to lash the server nodes together. ”
