March 9, 2010 | PSSC Labs announced that it has received the
contract to supply a new multi-technology supercomputer for the High
Performance Computing Center (HPCC) at WKU. Western Kentucky
University's Ogden College of Science and Engineering with the help of
Senator Mitch McConnell secured $2.5 million funding from the U.S.
Department of Education on October 1, 2009.
The PSSC Labs
supercomputer will be an ultra high performance system with over 7500
CPU cores, 4100 GPU cores, high volume data storage, and high speed
network connectivity. The HPCC will provide cyber infrastructure
required to support research across academic disciplines at WKU, and
will expand capacity to create strategic partnerships between university
faculty and global business industry.
Almost forty suppliers
competed for this contract, including Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and
Cisco. PSSC Labs was chosen to provide the supercomputer because of its
outstanding reputation in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry
for building highly reliable systems for computationally intensive
applications. The PSSC Labs supercomputer will use a newly released
twin blade form factor that creates higher computing density while
using 30% less energy and can be easily maintained, upgraded, and
recycled.
"We are honored and excited to provide the HPCC a world
class super computer," said Janice Lesser, company President. "PSSC
Labs builds, validates, and extensively tests all systems in a network
environment to greatly increase reliability. We have documented a
0.001% in the field failure rate of our products. This allows our
customers to focus their time on their work, and not expend resources on
trouble-shooting computer component failures."
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For more details about PSSC Labs' high performance servers, supercharged workstations and industry leading clusters and clouds, visit us online at http://pssclabs.com.
