Application Roll-over Facility, a solution developed by Bull, enables system administrators to easily move an application and its environment from one system to another in order to manage system workload issues, for maintenance purposes or in the event of hardware failures. The ARF facility provides low cost and easy-to-install application availability for the NovaScale Intensive and Universal range of servers in Linux environments.

"The whole face of the software industry is changing. And not all the players have yet realized what is happening. Others are still wavering between seeing it as a short lived growth bubble or a limited side effect. Inherently, though, the IT world is going through a crucial transformation: a huge revolution comparable to the ones that in their time led to the emergence of the PC and the Internet.The Open Source revolution."

High Performance Computing (HPC) has become an essential tool in the worlds of research and industry alike. From aeronautics, climatology and bioscience to finance and sport, computer modelling and simulation have made inroads into most areas. Quite simply because HPC provides today’s researchers with an essential means of investigation, creates major competitive advantage for manufacturers and business, and is even fundamental to countries’ national sovereignty.

After an exhaustive international selection process, involving no less than 278 different assessment criteria, Bull was chosen for the value of its technological solution, its knowledge of Open Source software, and its expertise in
high-performance computing and complex infrastructures.

Managing the growing complexity in enterprise data centers is time-consuming and expensive, a major challenge for IT departments whose objectives are to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). NovaScale Master is designed to simplify the management of Bull Intel based and storage servers and to enhance the system availability and performance. Thanks to its openness combined with an easy integration and deployment flexibility a larger number of servers can be managed in heterogeneous environment with a lower cost per managed system