[yellowdog-announce] IBM QS21 Cell blade clusters from Terra Soft -- Announcement

[Announce List for all Terra Soft products (moderated)]

Yellow Dog Enthusiast,

Terra Soft is pleased to now offer complete, turn-key IBM BladeCenter QS21 
Cell blade solutions with Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux pre-installed and fully 
configured.

The QS21 blades with dual Cell processors offer a unique opportunity to 
accelerate compute-intensive tasks such as image processing, signal 
processing, and graphics rendering. These single-wide blades double the 
compute density over prior QS20 product, with up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single 
BladeCenter H chassis. On-board 2GB RAM and dual gig-e NICs, with optional 4x 
Infiniband, Serial Attached SCSI, and 2GB buffer I/O memory.

Terra Soft's Solution integrates a JS21 server with Yellow Dog Enterprise 
Linux pre-installed and configured to NFS boot the 12 diskless QS21 compute 
blades over internal gig-e. A powerful, self-contained solution.

This package includes:
 - IBM BladeCenter "H" chassis.
 - 1 x IBM JS21 dual-970 server blade: 2.3GHz, 2GB RAM, 146GB SATA.
 - 12 x IBM QS21 dual-Cell blades: 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM, no local drive.
 - Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux pre-configured for local NFS booting.
 - 2 x IBM Advanced Management Modules.
 - 2 x Nortel 2/3 copper gigabit switch modual, 6 ports.
 - 2 x power supplies and cables.
 - 1 x YDEL v6.0 license for JS21 head node.
 - 12 x YDEL v6.0 BSP licenses for QS21 compute nodes.
 - 40 hours technical support.

If you desire a quote, do not hesitate to complete this form:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/quote-request.shtml

--TSS Staff