[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Provides Yellow Dog Linux for Sony ZEGO BCU-100: Press Release 13 August 2008

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NEW CELL RENDER FARM NODE RUNS YELLOW DOG

LOS ANGELES, California - 13 August 2008 - From the showfloor of SIGGRAPH, 
Sony booth 521, Terra Soft today announced a partnership with Sony 
Corporation for the provision of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux as the defacto 
operating system for the Sony ZEGO BCU-100, a computing unit with its 
built-in Cell Broadband Engine(TM) and RSX graphics processor.

Over the course of the past year, Terra Soft worked closely with Sony to 
develop a version of the Yellow Dog Linux operating system specifically for 
the Sony BCU-100. This board support package (BSP) provides end users with a 
best-of-class, high performance Linux OS that seamlessly blends ease of 
installation with the Cell/B.E. SDK with full 3D support for the on-board RSX 
GPU.

Hiro Fujita of Business Development Manager at Sony's B2B Solutions Business 
Group states, "We chose to work with Terra Soft for their extensive 
experience with the Cell/B.E.. Their Yellow Dog Linux operating system 
provides support for all products that adopt Cell/B.E. manufactured by Sony, 
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and IBM with a single kernel family. The 
Terra Soft team's experience with high performance computing, clustering, and 
the film industry is perfectly matched with our intended market."

In addition to Yellow Dog Linux, Terra Soft offers the Y-HPC cluster 
construction suite which enables the rapid network deployment of a single 
node image across dozens, even hundreds of BCU-100 compute nodes in a matter 
of minutes for the rapid construction of a homogeneous video effects render 
farm.

Terra Soft's Y-Film ties OSX, Windows, and Linux artist desktops to backend 
BCU-100 render farms with a powerful suite of asset management and workflow 
pipeline tools.

Owen Stampflee, Director of Engineering for Terra Soft states, "The BCU-100 is 
a very unique product with a powerful offering for the image processing 
markets. To match this industry leading offering, we have made certain the 
Yellow Dog Linux BSP is at its best."

Development tools include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Debugger 
(Gdb), Eclipse, Subversion, and a large collection of libraries and toolkits.

YDEL for the BCU-100 may be purchased directly from the Terra Soft Store.

    To learn more about the YDEL, visit:
    www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydel/

    To learn more about Y-HPC, visit:
    www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/

    To learn more about Y-Film, visit:
    www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-film/ 


SIGGRAPH 2008
August 12-14, Los Angeles Convention Center, downtown Los Angeles, California. 
Come visit Sony booth 521 to experience a demonstration of the new ZEGO 
BCU-100 running Yellow Dog Linux and SideFX Houdini. Founder & CEO Kai Staats 
and Director of Engineering for Terra Soft Solutions are on-site, presenting 
at 10 AM, 1 PM, and 3PM and available in the booth to answer questions about 
Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC, and Y-Film as they relate to the BCU-100 product.


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
As the recognized leader in Linux for Power since 1999, Terra Soft provides 
Yellow Dog Linux board support for Power architecture chip vendors and OEMs; 
turn-key, integrated solutions built upon the PowerStation and systems from 
IBM, Mercury, and Sony; cross-architecture Linux applications for high 
performance computing, including Y-HPC Cluster Construction Suite and the 
Y-Film Asset Management System.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com


Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Cell Broadband Engine is a 
registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.. Power is a 
trademark of IBM. YDL, Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC, and Y-Film are registered 
trademarks of Terra Soft Solutions. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus 
Torvalds. Additional product and company names mentioned may be trademarks 
and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.