[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft, Argo Graphics Provide Power Linux to Japan: Press Release 1 July 2008

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

YELLOW DOG LINUX PRE-INSTALLED ON QS22 CELL BLADES

TOKYO, Japan - 1 July 2008 - Terra Soft Solutions of Loveland, Colorado, USA 
and Argo Graphics of Tokyo, Japan today announce a collaborative effort to 
bring enterprise level support to Linux for Power architecture systems in 
Japan, with immediate support for the IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz based QS22 
blade and the IBM Cell SDK.

Argo Graphics, an IBM Business Partner and long standing provider of HPC 
systems for the Japanese market is moving to improve the quality of its Power 
architecture offerings by incorporating Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 
from Terra Soft Solutions.

Yoneo Sawada, President and COO of ARGO GRAPHICS states, "We see potential to 
improve our current offering by providing a Linux OS whose engineering team 
is dedicated to the support and improvement of the Power architecture. Terra 
Soft's track record is proven, a well suited partner for the existing and new 
Argo customer base."

Terra Soft has provided Argo Graphics with license to pre-install both Yellow 
Dog Enterprise Linux and Y-HPC. Argo will continue to engage customers with 
direct, hands-on support while Terra Soft provides Argo with engineering and 
customer support for the Yellow Dog Linux operating system and Y-HPC. An 
unbeatable, just-works solution.

Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a CentOS/RHEL based operating system built and 
maintained for ten years with 100% focus on the Power architecture. First to 
market with a commercial distribution for Cell, YDL is the only Linux to 
include the open portion of the IBM Cell SDK and install the runtime 
environment by default. YDEL is readily installed onto a complete chassis of 
14 QS22 blades in less than 3 hours from an x86 or Power architecture 
headnode, saving time and resources over the competition's longer 
configuration requirements.

Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) couples Terra Soft's operating system with 
in-house engineering expertise and support for the IBM QS22 product line, 
providing an exceptional end-user experience.

Y-HPC is Terra Soft's cluster construction suite which enables scalable, rapid 
node image deployment across both x86-64 and Power architecture compute 
nodes. Argo's incorporation of Y-HPC improves the ease with which Argo may 
build and support its customers' clusters. 

Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions states, "With the recent release of 
the next generation IBM Cell Broadband Engine blades and the POWER6 chipset, 
we are pleased to partner with such a capable company as Argo which moves to 
expand its reach into the technically innovative Japanese market place."

IBM BladeCenter QS22, PowerXCell 8i based-blade, is a high performance blade 
that extends and deepens the high performance scientific computing solution. 
The QS22 provides very high performance with 460 single precision GFLOPS and 
217 double precision GFLOPS per blade.

Argo is now taking orders for both IBM POWER and QS22 systems with YDEL.


About Argo Graphics Inc.
As the leading solution provider in PLM and HPC since 1985, Argo Graphics 
provides the computer systems to each domestic manufacturing industry 
company, in order to perform design of parts or products, and to verify of 
those performances or quality. And Argo Graphics provide the required 
technical services in order that the customer may employ those systems 
efficiently and stably. Moreover, in addition to the CAD system, for 
government institutes and universities, Argo Graphics provide the High 
Performance Computing System for various kinds of scientific computing, and 
is also performing maintenance business of the computing infrastructure 
including network.

For more information, visit www.argo-graph.co.jp


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


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