[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Extends HPC Offerings with IBM p5 Servers: Press Release 06 June 2006

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Tue Jun 6 09:41:00 MDT 2006


TERRA SOFT EXTENDS HPC OFFERINGS WITH IBM p5 SERVERS

LOVELAND, Colorado, - 6 June 2006 - Terra Soft Solutions, leading provider of 
high performance, integrated solutions built upon the Power architecture 
today announced the addition of the IBM p5 to its turn-key offerings.

For the past four years Terra Soft has provided PowerPC solutions as a 
top-tier Apple Proprietary Solutions provider, Value Added Reseller. Terra 
Soft is capitalizing upon its expertise with the Power architecture by adding 
IBM Power products, including BladeCenter JS21, OpenPower, and now the p5 
series servers.

The p5 line-up starts with the p5 185 tower, a 32/64-bit replacement for the 
Apple G5 PowerMacs running Linux. The 505, 510, 520 offer dual and quad core, 
64-bit configurations in 1U, 2U, and 4U rackmounts with a variety of 
on-board, high-throughput storage options. Higher-end p5 systems offer as 
many as 64 cores in a single configuration with massive on-board storage and 
I/O options.

"We are improving our Power architecture offerings with the addition of the 
IBM p5 systems. As showcased in the Top500.org, Power holds a prominent 14% 
of the 2005 list. This bodes well for Terra Soft's historic and current plays 
in the HPC space. In particular, the 64-bit memory addressing of the p5 is 
well suited for the large data sets associated with bioinformatics and Y-Bio, 
our suite of tools for gene sequence analysis," states Greg Creamer, VP Sales 
Terra Soft Solutions.

Terra Soft has for four years maintained a high profile customer base, 
building mission critical, HPC systems for the Departments of Defense and 
Energy built upon Yellow Dog Linux and Apple G4/G5 systems. The embrace of 
IBM p5 series substantiates Terra Soft's dedication to the Power architecture 
and steadfast recognition of an improving HPC architecture.

Now in development, Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 is being built against the Fedora 
Core 5 foundation with support for the JS21, OpenPower, and p5 series 
products. Also in development, Y-HPC v2.0 will enable rapid cluster 
construction and powerful management of heterogeneous configurations, 
including the IBM BladeCenter and p5 systems.

	For more information about the IBM p5 products:
	http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ibm/ 

	Quotes for p5 & JS21 systems may be obtained from Terra Soft:
	http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/quote-request.shtml


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Board Support Package and Integrated Solutions 
Provider with proven expertise in the Power Architecture and Linux OS 
platform. As an IBM, Mercury, Genesi, and Apple Value Added Reseller, Terra 
Soft provides turnkey workstations, servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft's 
Y-HPC is widely accepted as a preferred cluster construction suite for Xserve 
clusters. Y-Bio provides an elegant interface to the leading genome sequence 
analysis tools and powerful data/user management suite for bioinformaticists.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com


Power is a trademark of IBM. Y-Bio is a trademark of Terra Soft Solutions. 
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