Getting Started with Star-P -
From James River Technical and Interactive Supercomputing

Today, there are two distinct environments for technical computing: the desktop, and the high-performance computing server. Desktop computing enables users to interact directly with their data, and rapidly solve problems in an iterative manner. High performance computing is used to solve the world's most challenging problems, leveraging a high degree of parallelization, and operating primarily in batch mode. The Star-P platform delivers the combined productivity of desktop tools with the power of high performance computing. This new paradigm for technical application development enables scientists, engineers and analysts to use familiar desktop tools to solve larger and more complex problems-resulting in shorter time to insight.

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Star-P Software Platform
Star-P is an interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for simple, user-friendly parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures: SMP servers, multi-core servers, and clusters. Star-P fundamentally transforms the workflow, substantially shortening the "time to solution," and delivers the "best of both worlds" -the interactive and familiar use of the desktop coupled with supercomputer-like problem-solving capabilities.

Unleash New Levels of Productivity
Transparently links desktop client applications with powerful SMP or Linux Cluster Platforms capabilities over a standard network for immediate productivity. Turbo-boosts performance, with transparent, automatic parallelization of commands and functions.
Unified compute environment that supports the full analytic cycle from prototype accelerating compute to production.

Deliver Results in Breakthrough Time
Dramatically shortens time to solution by combining rapid model iteration on the desktop with the ability to quickly  solve large, complex compute problems.

Maximize Investment Protection
Bridges popular scientific and engineering desktop computing tools such as Mathworks MATLAB® and the powerful computing capability on Industry Standard SMP and Linux Cluster Platforms. Choice of industry-standard Linux operating systems, fully supportedby SGI.
Leverages existing investment in development and eliminates the re-programming expense associated with porting desktop application code to high performance computer