Platform Computing, which makes workload management and automation software for high-performance computing and cloud hardware stacks, had previously only supported CPUs for hardware management in grids and clusters.

"We do see a trend in interest in GPU [graphical processing unit] utilisation in the HPC market," Ken Hertzler, vice president of project management at Platform Computing, told ZDNet UK on Monday. "We have added the ability to intelligently schedule HPC workload on resources that have GPU cards only. For example, if a cluster has some servers that have dedicated GPU cards installed in them and others do not have GPU cards, you want to have the ability to schedule [GPU-specific] work to just the ones with GPU cards," he said.

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