[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Offers Trial Xserve/IB Linux cluster: 2005 03/30

[yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

To all interested parties:

Considering Apple G5 Xserve hardware for your next cluster but need to 
maintain Linux facility-wide? Wanting to gain maximum performance from 64-bit 
PowerPC systems?

If you are interested in testing your code on a 64-bit Linux, G5 Xserve 
cluster with industry standard IBM XL compilers and SBS InfiniBand -- Terra 
Soft offers on-line access to an 8 node (16 CPU) Xserve cluster running Y-HPC 
(http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/intro.shtml) to qualified 
individuals from DoE, DoD, Edu, and commercial entities.

The cluster is comprised of:
 - Dual 2.0GHz G5 Xserve head node.
 - 7x Dual 2.0GHz Cluster nodes.
 - Gig-e interconnect.
 - SBS InfiniBand interconnect.
 - MPI-CH, LAM-MPI, and MVAPICH.
 - 64-bit gcc and tool chain.
 - GA IBM XLF/C compilers.
 - Ganglia, NFS. Platform's LSF HPC coming soon ...
 - BLAST, BLAS.

... with PVFS2, SGE, and Torque available upon request.

If desiring time on the cluster, please visit:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/apple/trial-cluster.shtml

At the end of May, this cluster with all current components, fully configured, 
will be available for purchase with both Edu and Fed discounts.

  --TSS Team