PSSC Labs Provides Supercomputing Power to the Academic Community
University of Idaho Among Purchasers of PSSC Linux-Based Clusters
LOS ANGELES, CA - September 18, 2003 - PSSC Labs (Professional Service
Super Computer Laboratories) announced today the delivery of Linux-based
clusters, known as Powerwulfs, to the University of Idaho for their
research needs.
The custom-configured clusters delivered to Associate Professor of
Computer Science, Professor Robert Heckendorn and fellow scientists at
the University of Idaho include Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz processors running a
Linux OS optimized for Beowulf systems. The cluster will be used by
computer scientists and mathematicians in conjunction with biologists at
the institution to conduct research in several fields including studying
the genetic information of all living entities and their complex
interconnections to each other.
The new discipline, known as bioinformatics, while popular in the
private sector is relatively rare in academic circles due to the cost of
supercomputers. Fortunately, Beowulf clusters, built with off-the-shelf
components have brought the cost of high performance computing down to
an affordable level for universities. Additionally, University of Idaho
computer science students will be given the chance to work with the
cluster itself in a rare opportunity for college students to work with
computers of this strength and capability.
The Idaho machines were delivered with PSSC Labs' latest cluster
management software, CBeST v.3.0 (Complete Beowulf Software Toolkit)
which was released by the company in July of this year.
Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs stated, "Beowulf clustering is
growing so much right now and we're so pleased that institutions like
Idaho are able to use our affordable machines to conduct research using
computing power that only a few years ago was out of their reach due to
cost concerns."
PSSC Labs also announced today that they will be delivering additional
clusters to Stanford University, Harvard University and Syracuse
University in coming weeks.
Lesser continued, "It's exciting for us to be a part of the research
that these schools perform and we're glad that PSSC can play a role in
making their work easier and high performance computing more
attainable."
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About PSSC Labs (Professional Service Super Computer Laboratories) PSSC
Labs provides custom configured high performance Beowulf Supercomputing
solutions, workstations and servers to the world's most prestigious and
demanding organizations including NASA, MIT and the University of
California at Berkeley. Since 1989, these organizations have relied upon
PSSC Labs for their High Performance Computing and High Speed
Interconnect needs. For complete details please call PSSC Labs at
949-380-7288 or visit: http://www.pssclabs.com
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