[yellowdog-announce] Y-HPC for Apple G5 Xserves at 60% discount

Announce List for all Terra Soft products (moderated) yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jul 30 11:11:26 MDT 2008


Apple Xserve Cluster Owners,

Terra Soft is pleased to offer a deeply discounted Y-HPC for Apple G5 Xserve 
clusters. If you have a 4, 8, 32, ... 512 node cluster built upon the former 
Apple PowerPC product, we are proud to offer Y-HPC v2.0.1 for nearly 1/3 the 
listed price.

Y-HPC offers a rapid-fire means of delivering a Yellow Dog Linux node image to 
each Xserve from an x86 or Power architecture head node. The GUI tools enable 
image (installation of the OS), update, and re-image. Through modification of 
the node images, admins may modify how the compute node uses NFS vs a local 
drive.

Historically Yellow Dog Linux has provided a 10-15% improvement in performance 
over OSX, and with YDL's continued improvements for the Power architecture, 
this refresh breathes new life into Xserve clusters.

Listed at $2995 for the head node and $200 for each compute node, Terra Soft 
offers Xserve cluster owners the head node license at just $995 and each 
compute node for $95. Clusters larger than 256 nodes are charged for just 256 
nodes.

Need a more powerful head node? Consider a quad-core 970MP PowerStation with 
the same family of processor as the former Apple G5s for head to compute node 
binary compatibility:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/powerstation/

If interested, complete the following form and a Terra Soft associated will 
prepare a quote within 48 hours:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/quote-request.shtml

	--TSS Sales Staff


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