Tübingen, Germany, Sept 25, 2024 – NI SP Software is excited to announce the release of NI SP EF Portal 2024.0, a drop-in upgrade replacement for NICE EnginFrame. Built from the same codebase as NICE EnginFrame, EF Portal offers identical features, functionalities, upgrade installation procedure, and user experience, while introducing a suite of exciting new features designed to further improve the way organizations support their High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
NI SP Software is committed to continuously add new attractive functionality to EF Portal maintaining backwards compatibility, new features, as well as regular updates and enhancements. NI SP has an experienced technical and operations team with over 40 years combined experience in deploying, customizing, and supporting EnginFrame for large enterprise customers. With NI SP EF Portal customers benefit from a refreshed upgraded EnginFrame portal replacement ensuring continuous future development with modern features and backward compatibility.
“We are excited to bring the new EF Portal functionality to EnginFrame VDI and HPC customers”, said Dr. Karsten Gaier, Founder and CEO of NI SP Software GmbH. “Ensuring customers can continue using EnginFrame functionality on new operating systems, new scheduler versions and new features with backwards compatibility secured. The first release will e.g. add support for RH/CentOS/Rocky 8 and 9 as well Ubuntu 22 and 24, preview of files in spooler view, copy and paste of files and directories and many other exciting new features.”
For over a decade, Electrolux Group has been harnessing the power of the EF HPC Portal to manage and organize HPC batch jobs and simulation data, alongside the EF DCV for virtual desktop infrastructure. “Our experience with these platforms has been overwhelmingly positive, marked by great performance and unwavering reliability. The flexibility to tailor the portal and services to our specific needs has been immensely beneficial”, as highlighted by Jean-Yves Noel, Electrolux HPC Infrastructure Engineer. “The ongoing evolution of the EF Portal excites us, and we enthusiastically look forward integrating its new advancements to enhance our HPC and VDI capabilities even further”.
“With the commitment to simplify the process of building customizable and ready-to-use HPC clusters in the Cloud, we have created CCME (Cloud Cluster Made Easy) where NI SP EF Portal plays an instrumental role”, said Philippe Bricard, Founder and CEO of UCit. “EF Portal enables seamless integration and continuous support for CCME. We are excited to see the dedicated development of EF Portal, as it enhances the adaptability and scalability features of CCME and guarantees a successful path forward for our large number of EnginFrame customers on-prem and in the cloud.”
“As development manager having worked on EnginFrame for over a decade, I am excited to see the launch of NI SP EF Portal”, said Francesco Locunto, Development Manager, NI SP Software GmbH. “Our drop-in portal replacement for EnginFrame ensures continuity for our customers while introducing exciting new features and enhancements. I am confident that EF Portal will provide our customers with a seamless transition and empower them to successfully tackle their evolving needs in HPC and VDI environments.”
About EF Portal
EF Portal is a comprehensive solution for managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. It offers a user-friendly interface for job submission, monitoring and data management. EF Portal is trusted by many TOP500 companies and organizations across various industries like Engineering, Oil&Gas, EDA, M&E, … to streamline their HPC and VDI workflows and optimize resource utilization.
About NI SP Software
NI SP Software located in Tübingen, Germany is a reseller of NICE Software products from AWS including EnginFrame and NICE DCV with extensive knowledge in VDI and High Performance Computing (HPC). NI SP has an experienced technical team with over 40 years experience in deploying, customizing, and supporting EnginFrame for large enterprise customers.
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