From yellowdog-announce at lists.fixstars.com  Thu Nov 18 17:16:44 2010
From: yellowdog-announce at lists.fixstars.com (Announce List for all Fixstars Solutions products (moderated))
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:16:44 -0800
Subject: [yellowdog-announce] Fixstars completes Linux OS integration for
	AFRL PS3 Cluster
Message-ID: <4CE4E0EC.1050302@fixstars.com>


Fixstars Solutions, Inc a developer of simulation and video processing 
software for multicore technologies has deployed its integrated Yellow 
Dog Enterprise Linux OS on the Air Force Research Lab's 2,016 node PS3? 
cluster.

Rome, New York - November 16, 2010, the Air Force Research 
Laboratory(AFRL) in Rome, NY awarded multicore developer Fixstars 
Solutions the contract to provide the Linux OS and OS management tools 
for its new Condor Cluster.

The cluster is composed of 2,016 PlayStation's, 1700 of which were 
purchased from Fixstars in early 2010. In addition to its processing 
super powers the system will be economically friendly with a initial 
cost of only $2 million dollars while providing an estimated 500 TFLOPs 
of performance for use in synthetic aperture radar.

Fixstars provided Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux(YDEL) modified by Fixstars 
for optimal performance in a large scale PS3? cluster.

MIT Professor Michael Cusumano commented the following about the 
cluster; "PS3? clusters like the Air Force Research Labs Condor PS3? 
Cluster is a step forward to demonstrate the computational power and 
accessibility of economical multicore architecture game consoles, 
Fixstars is at the forefront of software development for multicore 
technologies"

Fixstars visited the Rome Research Site to assist with the first stages 
of software deployment as well to provide training of AFRL personnel on 
the processes and techniques used to manage the software on the 2,016 
node cluster. Fixstars will continue to support the AFRL with OS 
maintenance and support through 2013.


About Fixstars Corporation

Fixstars Corporation provides software technology solutions that target 
Cell/B.E. and other multicore computing environments. Its vision is for 
a future where multi-core microprocessors are the standard. Fixstars 
accelerates the performance of multi-core based applications by 
providing a complete and integrated ecosystem products for Finance, 
Medical, Manufacturing, and Digital media markets.

For more information, visit :
www.fixstars.com/en

"Fixstars", Fixstars' logo, and Yellow Dog are registered trademarks of 
the Fixstars Corporation. "NVIDIA", NVIDIA's logo, and CUDA are 
registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporations. All other company names 
and product names mentioned in the article are each company's registered 
trademark, or a trademark.


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