Promicro recently debuted advanced Linux computing clusters and Serial ATA (SATA) storage solutions at ClusterWorld 2003, the industry’s premier clustering event! The BioBrew cluster was among the new additions to the Promicro family of solutions was the BioBrew cluster. Developed in conjunction with cluster software provider Callident, BioBrew is an open source Linux distribution that is specially enhanced for bioinformaticists and life scientists, providing automated cluster construction, configuration, management and monitoring. BioBrew also contains popular bioinformatics software, including the NCBI toolkit, BLAST, MPI-BLAST, HMMER, ClustalW, GROMACS, WISE, and EMBOSS. The BioBrew cluster is available on standardized 32 and 64-bit platforms.

The ProStore SATA (Serial ATA) storage solution, which provides mass storage capacity for cluster data, also proved to be a smash hit with its patent-pending, high density design, which packs 36 SATA drives into a 4U chassis and easily scales up to 9 terabytes. Additional features include hot-swappable hard drives, power supplies, dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces, and RAID support for reliability and redundancy.