[yellowdog-announce] Scalable Informatics Offers Cell + GPU Hybrids: Press Release 25 March 2009

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

SCALABLE INFORMATICS JOINS WITH FIXSTARS TO CREATE ALL-IN-ONE CELL PXCAB, 
NVIDIA TESLA, & MASSIVE STORAGE DESKSIDE SYSTEM

CANTON, Michigan - 25 March 2009 - Scalable Informatics, provider of custom 
HPC systems, solutions, and services has partnered with Fixstars Solutions 
for the inclusion of the Fixstars GA-180 (IBM PXCAB) with the Pegasus-GPU 
NVIDIA Tesla™-powered high performance workstations.

The Pegasus series workstation coupled with the NVIDIA Tesla™ platform 
provides unrivaled computing power for GPU-based application acceleration.

The Pegasus-GPU is now available with both an NVIDIA Tesla and IBM PXCAB PCIe 
cards, combining the best of both accelerated computing technologies into a 
single deskside workstation -- industry leading NVIDIA GPU + IBM PowerXCell 
8i in one box.

Kai Staats, COO Fixstars Solutions states, "Dr. Landman and his team have been 
working on accelerated computing systems for years. After Scalable 
Informatics has expanded the functions of their high capacity, high 
performance workstations with heterogeneous accelerated processing using 
GPUs, adding high performance, Cell-based processing to this line was a 
natural extension. It's a perfect synthesis of heterogeneous acceleration 
technologies. We are excited by this collaborative effort as it moves to 
satisfy a growing demand for a multi-core solution which implements a unified 
OpenCL code base."

The Pegasus-GPU+Cell is the first-to-market product offering both GPU and Cell 
technology in a single box. Combining up to 3 accelerator systems, with a 
high performance computing substrate featuring up to 16 processor cores, up 
to 256 GB of RAM, and up to 40x 2.5 inch SATA/SAS drives. This deskside 
system provides tremendous computational and I/O power tightly coupled to 
accelerated computing with GPUs and Cell processors.

Developers may use the Pegasus-GPU+Cell system to leverage the power of both 
the GPU and Cell processors, providing a powerful heterogeneous acceleration 
platform.  end-users can leverage GPU and/or Cell optimized applications, as 
well as adapting their existing applications for acceleration.

Dr. Joseph Landman, Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics states, "The 
Pegasus-GPU system has differentiated itself in design by leveraging a more 
powerful underlying computing substrate. This allows end-users to avoid 
limitations of less powerful systems. Working with the Fixstars team, we can 
now extend a powerful GPU-accelerated deskside supercomputer by leveraging 
Cell technologies to provide even more raw computational horsepower to end-
users and developers. Moreover, working with Fixstars means that we leverage 
the excellent capabilities and tools of YDL, as well as their extensive 
capabilities for porting and tuning Cell-based codes."

About the Pegasus-GPU+Cell desk-side system:
 - 4 to 16 AMD or Intel Cores
 - 8 to 256 GB System Memory
 - Linux, Windows with PCI driver for PXCAB
 - Solaris, BSD using gig-e to talk to PXCAB
 - Multiple NVIDIA GPU options
 - One or more Fixstars GA-180 (PXCAB)
 - Multiple PCI-e slots
 - USB 2.0, Firewire 800
 - DVD+/-RW
 - Multiple Gigabit ports
 - 10 GbE/Infiniband options
 - 500GB to several TB fast local disk; up to 40 drive bays of 2.5-inch 
SATA/SAS drives, inclusive of SSD drives

The Pegasus-GPU+Cell system is ideal for computationally intensive scientific 
research and code, leveraging highly optimized routines for chemistry, 
informatics, geophysics, molecular dynamics, physics, and bio-medical 
computing.

Fixstars offers Cell optimized vertical market solutions for Financial 
Modeling, Digital Media & H.264 compression, Health Care & Life Sciences, and 
Manufacturing Inspection.

	More information is available at:
	us.fixstars.com/products/market-solutions/vertical_markets.shtml

	Pegasus-GPU+Cell is immediately available from Scalable Informatics:
	www.scalableinformatics.com/pegasus-gpu-cell


About Scalable Informatics
Scalable Informatics (Scalable) is a privately-owned high performance 
computing solutions company focusing on delivering pragmatic solutions to 
computational and storage problems.

Scalable Informatics designs, builds, and supports high performance storage, 
clusters and workstation hardware, scalable and accelerated software, and 
offers support, consulting and development services.

For more information, contact Scalable Informatics at 734.786.8423 or visit:
www.scalableinformatics.com


About Fixstars, Inc.
Fixstars is the pioneering company of the Cell Broadband Engine, high 
performance multi-core processor. Fixstars enables the increase in 
performance of Cell based operations through provision of a complete, 
integrated ecosystem with specific turn-key products for Finance, Medical, 
Manufacturing, and Digital media markets. Founded in 2002, Fixstars is 
headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and in October of 2008 acquired Terra Soft 
Solutions and the world renowned Yellow Dog Linux.

For more information, visit us.fixstars.com


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