Targeting the HPC and Big Data markets with Software Defined Servers

TidalScale announced that it has established its first branch in Korea to strengthen its position in the global market and will support companies and public institutions with high demand for HPC and big data analytics by supplying unrivaled software-defined servers, enabling them to immediately configure servers of the required scale.

Hyperkernel, TidalScale's core technology, is an inverse hypervisor technology that, unlike traditional virtualization where multiple operating systems ran on a single server, enables software-defined servers to integrate all resources from multiple nodes—such as CPU, memory, storage, and network—into a single system.

HyperKernel is characterized by becoming increasingly faster and evolving as it sits between the hardware and the guest OS, optimizing virtual CPUs and memory powered by patented machine learning in microseconds and moving them through a completely newly designed interconnection network. TidalScale's HyperKernel technology has been evaluated by Gartner, eweek, and others as the biggest innovation at the kernel level since VMware.

TidalScale solutions support the virtual consolidation of multiple commercial servers into one or more, regardless of the operating system, thereby extending the useful life and value of data centers and enabling users to implement server environments much more easily than currently used methods.

This enables enterprises to build supercomputer-class systems for performing large-scale analysis, memory-intensive computing, computationally intensive workloads, and modeling. In particular, it is characterized by reducing the HPC system setup process, which used to take weeks to months, to just a few minutes, enabling configuration and booting on-premises and in the cloud.

Integrated resources are provided to all users and applications in the form of a 'Cohesive Whole,' offering an environment where all resources held by multiple nodes can be optimally utilized without separate operations, such as installing additional libraries on the OS or modifying code for distributed programs.

TidalScale CEO Gary Smuddhan stated, “TidalScale, having demonstrated tremendous growth throughout 2017, intends to use the establishment of this Korean branch as momentum to strengthen its position in the Korean and Asian markets.” He further explained, “We will support Korean customers, who represent innovation, in seamlessly utilizing workloads and data sets of various scales within virtual environments through the deployment of software-defined servers.”

Park Woon-young, Country Manager of TidalScale, stated, “Korea is a market that has led technological advancements, spanning not only the semiconductor industry but also consumer goods sectors such as mobile and communication devices, and thus customer expectations are very high.” He explained, “TidalScale will enhance flexibility and agility by meeting customer requirements for unpredictable workloads—such as big data and HPC applications—that exceed the capabilities of existing servers and clusters, through software-defined servers. TidalScale’s ‘HyperKernel’ will revolutionize the way IT is operated in businesses and data centers.”