November 9, 2011 | LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that
PSSC Labs has selected LSI™ 3ware® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controller cards
for integration with its PowerWulf Cluster high-performance computing
(HPC) solutions. The combination of LSI 3ware 9750 series controllers
and PowerWulf Clusters is designed to provide researchers in the life
sciences community with a high-performance, turnkey solution capable of
addressing both the computational and data capacity requirements of
genome sequencing applications.
"Genome sequencing research can produce terabytes of data in a single
run, putting immense pressure on computer processing power and data
storage capacity," said Alex Lesser, vice president, PSSC Labs. "LSI’s
products are extremely reliable, easy to configure and cost effective.
They are a perfect match for our specifications and the laborious
requirements of our end customers."
PSSC Labs PowerWulf Clusters are high-performance computing systems,
which include the Raid Station VPR-NXXL, the storage solution within the
system. Raid Station VPR series solutions are powered by 3ware RAID
technologies, which help optimize and increase system performance,
allowing researchers to conduct more sequencing runs and focus on
experiments and analysis rather than management of the cluster.
PSSC Labs selected LSI 3ware RAID controllers over competitive solutions
based on the high performance and proven reliability they achieved in
PSSC Labs' rigorous testing processes. Internal tests conducted for Raid
Station products, even when using lower-performance 3Gb/s SATA drives,
yielded sequential throughput performance exceeding 1TB per second, with
reads of up to 1,100MB/sec and writes of up to 946MB/sec. (1)
PowerWulf Clusters also provide massive amounts of available RAID
storage space. Each PowerWulf Cluster includes a minimum of 10TB of
available storage, which can be easily expanded to several hundred
terabytes. Utilizing LSI 600 series JBOD storage enclosures, which are
fully compatible with LSI 3ware RAID controllers, users can
cost-effectively expand and scale storage capacity to meet rapidly
escalating data volumes.
"In genome sequencing labs, scientists are undertaking potentially
life-changing research, and it is essential that their efforts are not
hindered by the limitations of information technology," said Brent
Blanchard, worldwide channel sales and marketing director, LSI. "LSI has
a long and successful history of delivering high-performance storage
solutions to government and university-based labs and private research
institutions. We're excited that PSSC Labs has selected LSI 3ware RAID
technologies to boost the storage capabilities of their HPC systems for
life sciences research."
LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID controllers and LSI 600 series JBODs are
available through a worldwide network of distributors, integrators and
VARs. Additional product information is available at the LSI Channel
Gateway (www.lsi.com/channel).
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon,
systems and software technologies that enable products, which
seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The
company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in
the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
(1) Actual test included two LSI 3ware 9650SE-12 port 3Gb/s SATA
controllers running RAID 5, LVM striped into one volume under XFS.
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LSI, the LSI & Design logo and 3ware are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation.
All other brands or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
OCZ Deneva 2 Solid State Drives Deployed in PSSC Labs HPC Systems and Servers
November 2, 2011 | OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ - News), a leading provider of
high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and
systems, today announced that the OCZ Deneva 2 SSD Series was qualified
by PSSC Labs for integration into workstations, HPC servers, and
datacenter appliances. The Deneva 2 Series offers superior performance,
power efficiency, and a robust enterprise feature-set, enabling PSSC
Labs to support clients contending with ever-increasing amounts of data
while lowering costs associated with maintenance, operating footprint,
and energy consumption.
PSSC Labs is a Southern California-based manufacturer with an extensive product lineup of turn-key solutions built in-house, including high performance servers, supercomputers, clusters, workstations, and RAID storage systems. These solutions are deployed to a diverse customer base such as entertainment content creators, government and military, scientific research, private clouds, and developers. Overcoming the obstacles inherent to traditional mechanical HDD storage, OCZ Deneva 2 SSDs feature superior performance and endurance for throughput-intensive applications, meeting today's demanding CAD and datacenter workloads.
"PSSC Labs is a leader in the high performance computing arena and we are pleased that they have selected our enterprise class Deneva 2 solid state drives for use within their workstation and server solutions," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. "PSSC Labs truly understands the unique challenges that customers address with the processing of ever increasing amounts of data and the integration of solid state drives within PSSC's best of breed solutions only further increases productivity and total cost of ownership for clients."
"Our computing solutions undergo an extensive and rigorous burn-in processes, to ensure that our customers receive the most reliable, highest performing systems in the industry," said Lawrence Lesser, CEO of PSSC Labs. "Our products experience field failure rate less than 0.01%. Qualification of Solid State Drives in our servers is no easy task, and PSSC Labs is proud to commercialize our products with the Deneva 2 enterprise class SSD."
OCZ's Deneva 2 SSDs feature a flexible design with a wide range of configurations and maximizes application performance with up to 550MB/s and 85,000 IOPS (4K random write) making them the ideal storage option for cutting-edge solution providers.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ), is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and premium computer components. OCZ has built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the enterprise and consumer SSD markets, a technology that competes with traditional rotating magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). SSDs are faster, more reliable, generate less heat and use significantly less power than the HDDs used in the majority of computers today. In addition to SSD technology, OCZ also offers high performance components for computing devices and systems, including enterprise-class power management products as well as leading-edge computer gaming solutions. For more information, please visit: www.ocztechnology.com.
The OCZ Technology Group, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7439
About PSSC Labs
PSSC Labs was founded in 1989, focused on providing high performance computing solutions for massively parallelized applications. PSSC Labs commercialized the first Beowulf computing cluster in 1996, and today ships and supports its products into datacenters in 36 countries. These solutions are available in many configurations, including Web 2.0 servers, Cloud Computing servers, and Hadoop clusters. For more information, please visit: www.pssclabs.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release relate to future events and expectations and as such constitute forward-looking statements involving known and unknown factors that may cause actual results of OCZ Technology Group, Inc. to be different from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. In this context, words such as "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "should" or other similar words and phrases often identify forward-looking statements made on behalf of OCZ. It is important to note that actual results of OCZ may differ materially from those described or implied in such forward-looking statements based on a number of factors and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, market acceptance of OCZ's products and OCZ's ability to continually develop enhanced products; adverse changes both in the general macro-economic environment as well as in the industries OCZ serves, including computer manufacturing, traditional and online retailers, information storage, internet search and content providers and computer system integrators; OCZ's ability to efficiently manage material and inventory, including integrated circuit chip costs and freight costs; and OCZ's ability to generate cash from operations, secure external funding for its operations and manage its liquidity needs. Other general economic, business and financing conditions and factors are described in more detail in "Item 1A -- Risk Factors" in Part I in OCZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 17, 2011, and amended on May 31, 2011, and statements made in other subsequent filings. The filing is available both at www.sec.gov as well as via OCZ's website at www.ocztechnology.com. OCZ does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
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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.
PSSC Labs is a Southern California-based manufacturer with an extensive product lineup of turn-key solutions built in-house, including high performance servers, supercomputers, clusters, workstations, and RAID storage systems. These solutions are deployed to a diverse customer base such as entertainment content creators, government and military, scientific research, private clouds, and developers. Overcoming the obstacles inherent to traditional mechanical HDD storage, OCZ Deneva 2 SSDs feature superior performance and endurance for throughput-intensive applications, meeting today's demanding CAD and datacenter workloads.
"PSSC Labs is a leader in the high performance computing arena and we are pleased that they have selected our enterprise class Deneva 2 solid state drives for use within their workstation and server solutions," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. "PSSC Labs truly understands the unique challenges that customers address with the processing of ever increasing amounts of data and the integration of solid state drives within PSSC's best of breed solutions only further increases productivity and total cost of ownership for clients."
"Our computing solutions undergo an extensive and rigorous burn-in processes, to ensure that our customers receive the most reliable, highest performing systems in the industry," said Lawrence Lesser, CEO of PSSC Labs. "Our products experience field failure rate less than 0.01%. Qualification of Solid State Drives in our servers is no easy task, and PSSC Labs is proud to commercialize our products with the Deneva 2 enterprise class SSD."
OCZ's Deneva 2 SSDs feature a flexible design with a wide range of configurations and maximizes application performance with up to 550MB/s and 85,000 IOPS (4K random write) making them the ideal storage option for cutting-edge solution providers.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ), is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and premium computer components. OCZ has built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the enterprise and consumer SSD markets, a technology that competes with traditional rotating magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). SSDs are faster, more reliable, generate less heat and use significantly less power than the HDDs used in the majority of computers today. In addition to SSD technology, OCZ also offers high performance components for computing devices and systems, including enterprise-class power management products as well as leading-edge computer gaming solutions. For more information, please visit: www.ocztechnology.com.
The OCZ Technology Group, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7439
About PSSC Labs
PSSC Labs was founded in 1989, focused on providing high performance computing solutions for massively parallelized applications. PSSC Labs commercialized the first Beowulf computing cluster in 1996, and today ships and supports its products into datacenters in 36 countries. These solutions are available in many configurations, including Web 2.0 servers, Cloud Computing servers, and Hadoop clusters. For more information, please visit: www.pssclabs.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release relate to future events and expectations and as such constitute forward-looking statements involving known and unknown factors that may cause actual results of OCZ Technology Group, Inc. to be different from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. In this context, words such as "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "should" or other similar words and phrases often identify forward-looking statements made on behalf of OCZ. It is important to note that actual results of OCZ may differ materially from those described or implied in such forward-looking statements based on a number of factors and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, market acceptance of OCZ's products and OCZ's ability to continually develop enhanced products; adverse changes both in the general macro-economic environment as well as in the industries OCZ serves, including computer manufacturing, traditional and online retailers, information storage, internet search and content providers and computer system integrators; OCZ's ability to efficiently manage material and inventory, including integrated circuit chip costs and freight costs; and OCZ's ability to generate cash from operations, secure external funding for its operations and manage its liquidity needs. Other general economic, business and financing conditions and factors are described in more detail in "Item 1A -- Risk Factors" in Part I in OCZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 17, 2011, and amended on May 31, 2011, and statements made in other subsequent filings. The filing is available both at www.sec.gov as well as via OCZ's website at www.ocztechnology.com. OCZ does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
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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.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Is Open Compute for Everyone?
May 13, 2011 | I guess the cloud is no longer technology's darling. All the IT buzz now surrounds the Open Compute Project. If you are not familiar with the Open Compute Project take a quick look at http://opencompute.org/. You will see that this is really the brainchild of some bright engineers at Facebook, and the results are impressive.
Facebook makes it claim as running, "the most efficient (data center) in the world". This revolutionary design not only saves massive amounts of energy but costs as well by removing centralized chillers and inline UPS systems. The Open Compute Project could very well transform how all new Data centers are built. I believe, it is only a matter of time before we hear captains of the industry trump energy and cost savings resulting from their organizations Open Compute architecture.
But is the Open Compute architecture really for everyone? The only way to properly answer this question is to closely examine the Open Compute Project. Let's start with a review of the servers themselves. This is really easy considering Facebook provides the model number, technical specifications and detailed engineering drawings for each component (http://opencompute.org/servers/). For the most part the server components are straightforward. There is a chassis, motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive and power supply. All of these items are currently available commodities. Only the chassis, motherboard and power supply are not considered "off the shelf" components.
What is not so straightforward is the designed for failure mentality of these servers. Web 2.0 companies, such as Facebook, Amazon, and OpenX, are unique in their attitude towards reliability. These companies are looking to save costs by not requiring 99.999% reliability and can manage with 98% (or lower) reliability, think about this. These servers are designed to fail. Would you accept this failure level at your doctor's office, or law firm or even your own place of business? The Answer is probably not, so why can Facebook and similar companies accept this lower reliability standard? Easy, they have all the money in the world to simply throw more hardware at the problem. If a machine fails, no problem there are racks and racks and racks of servers available. Most companies we work with do require 99.999% reliability or as close to it as possible. And certainly budget constraints are taken into consideration for every purchase.
Next let's look beyond the server to the computing environment. For the Open Compute architecture to work you need to build a data center from scratch. Facebook kindly provides details for designing your own Open Compute data center http://opencompute.org/datacenters/). Just last week I was in Equinix's Class A Virginia data center. This place was amazing, probably the best overall computing environment I have ever seen. But the Open Compute server architecture would simply not work here.
Why you ask? The answer is quite simple, the Open Compute server design relies on the outside air and an intricate misting system for cooling. Equinix does not provide this capability. If you put these Open Compute servers into Equinix they would burn up in about 1-2 days maximum. Because the outside air temperature is so critical for Open Compute to work, this will limit possible physical location of Open Compute data centers. Based on the information presented, I am not certain data centers in hot and humid environments will work. Facebook's data center is in Oregon. I'm willing to bet the Facebook engineers immediately ruled out Arizona as a possible location.
Please don't misinterpret the above as discrediting the Open Compute Project. I fully believe that this type of innovation is absolutely necessary. Our thirst for computing power is having a very real and negative effect on energy consumption and the environment. My organization (www.pssclabs.com) recently released our own revolutionary server design that promises to reduce carbon emissions by offering 55% recyclable metals (http://www.pssclabs.com/servers/1u-rack-mount/powerserve-duo-t2000/dual-server-technology). In addition, PSSC Labs (www.pssclabs.com) is working with component manufacturers to develop our own Open Compute server solution. I simply want to offering alternative discussion points before the marketing departments get wind of Open Compute and anoint it the next Information Technology catch phrase.
For me, this is the most interest discussion point not addressed by Facebook. Yes their data center may be the world's most energy efficient but how does the higher server failure rate affect this measurement.
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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.
Facebook makes it claim as running, "the most efficient (data center) in the world". This revolutionary design not only saves massive amounts of energy but costs as well by removing centralized chillers and inline UPS systems. The Open Compute Project could very well transform how all new Data centers are built. I believe, it is only a matter of time before we hear captains of the industry trump energy and cost savings resulting from their organizations Open Compute architecture.
But is the Open Compute architecture really for everyone? The only way to properly answer this question is to closely examine the Open Compute Project. Let's start with a review of the servers themselves. This is really easy considering Facebook provides the model number, technical specifications and detailed engineering drawings for each component (http://opencompute.org/servers/). For the most part the server components are straightforward. There is a chassis, motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive and power supply. All of these items are currently available commodities. Only the chassis, motherboard and power supply are not considered "off the shelf" components.
What is not so straightforward is the designed for failure mentality of these servers. Web 2.0 companies, such as Facebook, Amazon, and OpenX, are unique in their attitude towards reliability. These companies are looking to save costs by not requiring 99.999% reliability and can manage with 98% (or lower) reliability, think about this. These servers are designed to fail. Would you accept this failure level at your doctor's office, or law firm or even your own place of business? The Answer is probably not, so why can Facebook and similar companies accept this lower reliability standard? Easy, they have all the money in the world to simply throw more hardware at the problem. If a machine fails, no problem there are racks and racks and racks of servers available. Most companies we work with do require 99.999% reliability or as close to it as possible. And certainly budget constraints are taken into consideration for every purchase.
Next let's look beyond the server to the computing environment. For the Open Compute architecture to work you need to build a data center from scratch. Facebook kindly provides details for designing your own Open Compute data center http://opencompute.org/datacenters/). Just last week I was in Equinix's Class A Virginia data center. This place was amazing, probably the best overall computing environment I have ever seen. But the Open Compute server architecture would simply not work here.
Why you ask? The answer is quite simple, the Open Compute server design relies on the outside air and an intricate misting system for cooling. Equinix does not provide this capability. If you put these Open Compute servers into Equinix they would burn up in about 1-2 days maximum. Because the outside air temperature is so critical for Open Compute to work, this will limit possible physical location of Open Compute data centers. Based on the information presented, I am not certain data centers in hot and humid environments will work. Facebook's data center is in Oregon. I'm willing to bet the Facebook engineers immediately ruled out Arizona as a possible location.
Please don't misinterpret the above as discrediting the Open Compute Project. I fully believe that this type of innovation is absolutely necessary. Our thirst for computing power is having a very real and negative effect on energy consumption and the environment. My organization (www.pssclabs.com) recently released our own revolutionary server design that promises to reduce carbon emissions by offering 55% recyclable metals (http://www.pssclabs.com/servers/1u-rack-mount/powerserve-duo-t2000/dual-server-technology). In addition, PSSC Labs (www.pssclabs.com) is working with component manufacturers to develop our own Open Compute server solution. I simply want to offering alternative discussion points before the marketing departments get wind of Open Compute and anoint it the next Information Technology catch phrase.
For me, this is the most interest discussion point not addressed by Facebook. Yes their data center may be the world's most energy efficient but how does the higher server failure rate affect this measurement.
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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.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
PSSC Labs Looks to Expand its Reach in the Life Sciences Market with New Hardware Release
April 12, 2011 | At the annual Bio-IT World conference slated to
begin next week in Boston, hardware firm PSSC Labs plans to present the
Powerserve Quattro I/A 4000, a supercomputer designed for life sciences
researchers.
The Lake Forest, Calif.-based company said it designed its new application server to meet the demands of genome sequencing.
Priced at $14,995, the computer can be configured with up to 48 processor cores, 1 terabyte of memory, and 30 TB of storage space.
Earlier this year, PSSC Labs announced that it had in stock two new computing platforms, the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and the PowerServe Quattro A41200, both of which support up to 512 gigabytes of high performance system memory.
To meet the needs of its life sciences customers, the company is ensuring that both platforms will be able to run a variety of genome sequencing programs such as Casava and Bioscope. Both systems provide large quantities of memory in a single system as well as "turnkey solutions, including application installation and management tools," freeing researchers to focus on their work and not systems management, Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs' vice president of sales and marketing, said in a statement.
The PowerServe Quattro I4800 is based on the Intel Xeon architecture and contains 32 processor cores that can support up to 40 terabytes of redundant storage space. Based on AMD Opteron architecture, the PowerServe Quattro I41200 contains 48 processor cores providing up to 40 TB of redundant storage space.
Starting prices for the new systems are below $15,000 and the systems can be customized to meet budget restrictions and client specifications, the company said.
Lesser told BioInform that the company primarily targets researchers in facilities with limited budgets who need a turnkey solution to handle their data needs. He added that PSSC is the only hardware company that offers a "completely preconfigured compute and storage solution that has multiple bioinformatics applications preinstalled and ready to run out of the box."
One customer, Kevin Thornton, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, told BioInform via e-mail that he has used a 40-node cluster from PSSC for some simulation projects. Thornton said his lab will soon upgrade to a 96-node cluster from the company.
His lab also has an 8-core server from PSSC that provides 128 gigabytes of RAM and 20 TB of storage, which he uses for analyzing Illumina data. Thornton uses Illumina whole-genome sequencing to study the evolution of genome structure in the genus Drosophila. "Basically, we are using paired-end sequencing to look for genome rearrangements within populations of different fruit fly species," he explained.
Christian Gilissen, a bioinformatician at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, told BioInform that his institution increased its compute power from one to two PowerWulf clusters — also from PSSC — about the same time it increased its sequencing capacity from one to three SOLiD sequencing instruments.
Gilissen said his lab needed the compute power and sequencers to support its exome sequencing research efforts. Specifically, he said the researchers use Life Technologies' preinstalled BioScope software for sequence mapping and variant calling. They also use the cluster to run a Java-based custom software package for variant annotation.
Currently, he said, the researchers churn out about 400 GB of genomic data per week.
He said the university initially purchased PSSC's seven-node cluster, with 24 GB per node, to handle data from its Roche 454 platform. With the addition of the new SOLiD sequencers, the university purchased a second 10-node cluster. PSSC counts SeqWright among its commercial clients. Earlier this year, the company said it had acquired a PowerWulf Grande Compute Engine as part of a broader effort to expand its next-generation sequencing and sequence data analysis capabilities (BI 01/14/2011).
Last summer, the firm partnered with CLC Bio to launch CLC Genomics Factory, a full genome analysis platform that includes hardware and software for assembly, read mapping, and downstream analysis of large quantities of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequence data (BI 08/13/2010).
By Uduak Grace Thomas
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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.
The Lake Forest, Calif.-based company said it designed its new application server to meet the demands of genome sequencing.
Priced at $14,995, the computer can be configured with up to 48 processor cores, 1 terabyte of memory, and 30 TB of storage space.
Earlier this year, PSSC Labs announced that it had in stock two new computing platforms, the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and the PowerServe Quattro A41200, both of which support up to 512 gigabytes of high performance system memory.
To meet the needs of its life sciences customers, the company is ensuring that both platforms will be able to run a variety of genome sequencing programs such as Casava and Bioscope. Both systems provide large quantities of memory in a single system as well as "turnkey solutions, including application installation and management tools," freeing researchers to focus on their work and not systems management, Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs' vice president of sales and marketing, said in a statement.
The PowerServe Quattro I4800 is based on the Intel Xeon architecture and contains 32 processor cores that can support up to 40 terabytes of redundant storage space. Based on AMD Opteron architecture, the PowerServe Quattro I41200 contains 48 processor cores providing up to 40 TB of redundant storage space.
Starting prices for the new systems are below $15,000 and the systems can be customized to meet budget restrictions and client specifications, the company said.
Lesser told BioInform that the company primarily targets researchers in facilities with limited budgets who need a turnkey solution to handle their data needs. He added that PSSC is the only hardware company that offers a "completely preconfigured compute and storage solution that has multiple bioinformatics applications preinstalled and ready to run out of the box."
One customer, Kevin Thornton, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, told BioInform via e-mail that he has used a 40-node cluster from PSSC for some simulation projects. Thornton said his lab will soon upgrade to a 96-node cluster from the company.
His lab also has an 8-core server from PSSC that provides 128 gigabytes of RAM and 20 TB of storage, which he uses for analyzing Illumina data. Thornton uses Illumina whole-genome sequencing to study the evolution of genome structure in the genus Drosophila. "Basically, we are using paired-end sequencing to look for genome rearrangements within populations of different fruit fly species," he explained.
Christian Gilissen, a bioinformatician at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, told BioInform that his institution increased its compute power from one to two PowerWulf clusters — also from PSSC — about the same time it increased its sequencing capacity from one to three SOLiD sequencing instruments.
Gilissen said his lab needed the compute power and sequencers to support its exome sequencing research efforts. Specifically, he said the researchers use Life Technologies' preinstalled BioScope software for sequence mapping and variant calling. They also use the cluster to run a Java-based custom software package for variant annotation.
Currently, he said, the researchers churn out about 400 GB of genomic data per week.
He said the university initially purchased PSSC's seven-node cluster, with 24 GB per node, to handle data from its Roche 454 platform. With the addition of the new SOLiD sequencers, the university purchased a second 10-node cluster. PSSC counts SeqWright among its commercial clients. Earlier this year, the company said it had acquired a PowerWulf Grande Compute Engine as part of a broader effort to expand its next-generation sequencing and sequence data analysis capabilities (BI 01/14/2011).
Last summer, the firm partnered with CLC Bio to launch CLC Genomics Factory, a full genome analysis platform that includes hardware and software for assembly, read mapping, and downstream analysis of large quantities of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequence data (BI 08/13/2010).
By Uduak Grace Thomas
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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.
Monday, April 4, 2011
PSSC Labs to Showcase Life Science Compute & Storage Solutions at BIO IT World
April 4, 2011 | PSSC Labs, based out of Southern California, will be unveiling a new
bioinformatics supercomputer for genome sequencing at the upcoming Bio
IT World Conference & Expo 2011 in Boston, MA. The POWERSERVE
Quattro I/A 4000 can be configured up to 48 processor cores, 1TB of
system memory and 30 TB of storage. This high performance computing
solution was designed from the ground up specifically for Life Science
applications. Priced at $14,995.00, the POWERSERVE Quattro I/A 4000
delivers both power and ROI making it the perfect fit for whole genome
de novo assembly, genome mapping and transcriptome analysis.
Life Science Computing - With over 1000 PowerWulf solutions delivered to 35+ countries, PSSC Labs (http://www.pssclabs.com) is the world's leader in turn-key high performance clusters for Life Sciences, specifically genome sequencing. PSSC Labs was tasked to develop an affordable supercomputer to handle the computational needs of some of the most demanding Life Science applications. A significant amount of time was dedicated to the research process by interviewing top professionals in the industry such as Core Sequencing facility managers and research scientists. It was clear that there was a void to be filled and a demand for cluster type resources in a stand-alone supercomputer.
"In conversations with lab managers and biologists, the common complaint was the need for an affordable system with large memory capacity", explains Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs Vice President. "Our POWERSERVE QUATTRO I/A 4000 Bioinformatics server is the answer to those needs. It is the complete package with all necessary application tools preinstalled and configured."
PSSC Labs built the application server from the ground up to meet the expert's genome sequencing needs and demands. The Life Science supercomputer can be configured with 48 processor cores, 1TB of memory and 30TB of storage space. PSSC Labs tested and certified the POWESERVE QUATTRO with leading next generation sequencing applications at each step of the development cycle.
PSSC Labs includes their CBeSTTM Supercomputer Management Toolkit to help manage, monitor and maintain the system. PSSC Labs can install, configure, optimize and test many bioinformatics applications prior to shipping. As with all of PSSC Labs product line, the company's goal is to deliver turn-key solutions allowing researchers to focus more on their work and not the intricacies of system configuration, management, application installation and performance tuning. The Quattro Bioinformatics server is no exception. It's development process makes it the logical solution for all Life Science application needs.
According to PSSC Labs the product is available today for worldwide distribution. For more information visit booth #202 at Bio IT World Conference & Expo 2011, April 12-14 (http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/) . Booth visitors can play to win a free iPAD.
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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.
Life Science Computing - With over 1000 PowerWulf solutions delivered to 35+ countries, PSSC Labs (http://www.pssclabs.com) is the world's leader in turn-key high performance clusters for Life Sciences, specifically genome sequencing. PSSC Labs was tasked to develop an affordable supercomputer to handle the computational needs of some of the most demanding Life Science applications. A significant amount of time was dedicated to the research process by interviewing top professionals in the industry such as Core Sequencing facility managers and research scientists. It was clear that there was a void to be filled and a demand for cluster type resources in a stand-alone supercomputer.
"In conversations with lab managers and biologists, the common complaint was the need for an affordable system with large memory capacity", explains Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs Vice President. "Our POWERSERVE QUATTRO I/A 4000 Bioinformatics server is the answer to those needs. It is the complete package with all necessary application tools preinstalled and configured."
PSSC Labs built the application server from the ground up to meet the expert's genome sequencing needs and demands. The Life Science supercomputer can be configured with 48 processor cores, 1TB of memory and 30TB of storage space. PSSC Labs tested and certified the POWESERVE QUATTRO with leading next generation sequencing applications at each step of the development cycle.
PSSC Labs includes their CBeSTTM Supercomputer Management Toolkit to help manage, monitor and maintain the system. PSSC Labs can install, configure, optimize and test many bioinformatics applications prior to shipping. As with all of PSSC Labs product line, the company's goal is to deliver turn-key solutions allowing researchers to focus more on their work and not the intricacies of system configuration, management, application installation and performance tuning. The Quattro Bioinformatics server is no exception. It's development process makes it the logical solution for all Life Science application needs.
According to PSSC Labs the product is available today for worldwide distribution. For more information visit booth #202 at Bio IT World Conference & Expo 2011, April 12-14 (http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/) . Booth visitors can play to win a free iPAD.
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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.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
PSSC Labs Engineers a Small Footprint Supercomputer Ideal for Cloud Computing and Other Hosted Solutions
March 19, 2011 | PSSC Labs, based out of Southern California, introduces the
POWERSERVE DUO T2000. The server design offers two complete and
independent servers in just 1U of rack space. There is no backplane or
shared power supply that is typically found in other blade server
offerings. Made from recyclable materials and a focus on low power
consumption makes this green computing solution ideal for any data
center infrastructure and company looking to maximize their ROI.
High Performance Cluster Computing - With over 1000 PowerWulf Cluster configurations delivered to 35+ countries, PSSC Labs is the world's leader in turn-key high performance clusters. The POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 high density servers can be configured as a supercomputer application cluster. PSSC Labs has configured Government and University supercomputer clusters to run applications for Life Science (Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry), Weather Modeling (MM5 and WRF), Design and Engineering (CFD) and Oil and Gas Reservoir Modeling.
Cloud Computing - High density, scalability, reliability and virtualization are core characteristics in building a cloud computing server environment. The Powerserve Duo TI2000 offers a unique 1U side by side server design combined with eco-friendly and power saving features. This unique server architecture focuses on conserving energy and reducing the overall datacenter footprint to produce the lowest total cost of ownership.
High Density Server Environment - Computing facilities are requiring ultra dense configurations due to limited datacenter space. The POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 offers two complete high performance servers in just 1U of rack space. Each server is totally independent allowing you the greatest flexibility. One server can be configured with AMD® Opteron® processors and the other with Intel® Xeon® processors. Flexibility and performance in such a small form factor is unprecedented.
Green Computing Environment - With 55% recyclable metal and power saving features, the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 is the World's eco-friendliest server. Never before has a server offered the ability to reuse 55% of the metal for upgrades and modifications. Reducing carbon emissions, limiting power usage and saving costs are core features found only in the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000.
Fail Over / Redundancy Ccomputing - The Powerserve Duo TI2000 is ideal for mission critical environments. With two completely independent servers you can create a totally redundant server in just 1U of rack space. No other server offers this capability.
Virtualization Software - PSSC Labs has certified both VMWare and Xen virtualization software products to run on the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000. In 1U of rack space you can pack 48 processor cores and 192GB of memory. This server is ideal for virtualization environments involved in data center consolidation, disaster recovery, server hosting or for your testing & development stage computing.
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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.
High Performance Cluster Computing - With over 1000 PowerWulf Cluster configurations delivered to 35+ countries, PSSC Labs is the world's leader in turn-key high performance clusters. The POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 high density servers can be configured as a supercomputer application cluster. PSSC Labs has configured Government and University supercomputer clusters to run applications for Life Science (Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry), Weather Modeling (MM5 and WRF), Design and Engineering (CFD) and Oil and Gas Reservoir Modeling.
Cloud Computing - High density, scalability, reliability and virtualization are core characteristics in building a cloud computing server environment. The Powerserve Duo TI2000 offers a unique 1U side by side server design combined with eco-friendly and power saving features. This unique server architecture focuses on conserving energy and reducing the overall datacenter footprint to produce the lowest total cost of ownership.
High Density Server Environment - Computing facilities are requiring ultra dense configurations due to limited datacenter space. The POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 offers two complete high performance servers in just 1U of rack space. Each server is totally independent allowing you the greatest flexibility. One server can be configured with AMD® Opteron® processors and the other with Intel® Xeon® processors. Flexibility and performance in such a small form factor is unprecedented.
Green Computing Environment - With 55% recyclable metal and power saving features, the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000 is the World's eco-friendliest server. Never before has a server offered the ability to reuse 55% of the metal for upgrades and modifications. Reducing carbon emissions, limiting power usage and saving costs are core features found only in the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000.
Fail Over / Redundancy Ccomputing - The Powerserve Duo TI2000 is ideal for mission critical environments. With two completely independent servers you can create a totally redundant server in just 1U of rack space. No other server offers this capability.
Virtualization Software - PSSC Labs has certified both VMWare and Xen virtualization software products to run on the POWERSERVE DUO TI2000. In 1U of rack space you can pack 48 processor cores and 192GB of memory. This server is ideal for virtualization environments involved in data center consolidation, disaster recovery, server hosting or for your testing & development stage computing.
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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.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
PSSC Labs Releasing Massive Memory Systems for High Performance Computing
February 15, 2011 | Memory bottlenecks have always been a concern
when dealing with large data sets. With the advent of multi-core
processors, memory access is the obvious concern for application
developers and their end users. PSSC Labs latest servers and
workstations directly address this issue by providing platforms which
can now support massive amounts of memory in a single system.
The Company is now shipping two new cost-effective computing platforms supporting up to 512 GB of high performance system memory; the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and the PowerServe Quattro A41200. Each of these platforms leverages different processor architectures to achieve this massive memory capability. The PowerServe Quattro I4800 is based on Intel® Xeon® architecture and contains 32 processors cores and can support up to 40TB of redundant storage space. The PowerServe Quattro I41200 is based on AMD® Opteron® architecture and contains 48 processor cores and can also support up to 40TB of redundant storage space. Both systems support Microsoft Windows® operating system as well as a variety of Linux operating systems including Red Hat, CentOS & Ubuntu.
Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs VP of Sales & Marketing, explains the advantages of these new computing platforms. "Recently we attended a Genomics conference where we heard repeatedly the need for scientist to run their applications on large memory systems," begins Mr. Lesser. "When you combine these awesome performance systems with PSSC Labs expertise in delivering turn key solutions including application installation and management tools, the scientific community is free to focus on their work and not managing a complex computer system." According to Mr. Lesser PSSC Labs plans to certify both platforms to run a variety of applications including genome sequencing programs such as Casava™ and Bioscope™.
Starting price for the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and PowerServe Quattro A41200 systems is below $15,000 USD and can be shipped / supported world wide. The systems can be custom configured to meet any budget or specifications. PSSC Labs will soon be releasing new versions of the PowerServe platform that will support up to 1.0TB of system memory.
About PSSC Labs
PSSC Labs is not just another computer company. Instead PSSC Labs is a solution focused provide of high performance computing equipment bundled with application software and management tools. This approach allows PSSC Labs to offer the most turn-key computing solutions possible allowing end users to focus on their work and not managing complex computer systems. For more information please visit www.pssclabs.com.
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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.
The Company is now shipping two new cost-effective computing platforms supporting up to 512 GB of high performance system memory; the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and the PowerServe Quattro A41200. Each of these platforms leverages different processor architectures to achieve this massive memory capability. The PowerServe Quattro I4800 is based on Intel® Xeon® architecture and contains 32 processors cores and can support up to 40TB of redundant storage space. The PowerServe Quattro I41200 is based on AMD® Opteron® architecture and contains 48 processor cores and can also support up to 40TB of redundant storage space. Both systems support Microsoft Windows® operating system as well as a variety of Linux operating systems including Red Hat, CentOS & Ubuntu.
Alex Lesser, PSSC Labs VP of Sales & Marketing, explains the advantages of these new computing platforms. "Recently we attended a Genomics conference where we heard repeatedly the need for scientist to run their applications on large memory systems," begins Mr. Lesser. "When you combine these awesome performance systems with PSSC Labs expertise in delivering turn key solutions including application installation and management tools, the scientific community is free to focus on their work and not managing a complex computer system." According to Mr. Lesser PSSC Labs plans to certify both platforms to run a variety of applications including genome sequencing programs such as Casava™ and Bioscope™.
Starting price for the PowerServe Quattro I4800 and PowerServe Quattro A41200 systems is below $15,000 USD and can be shipped / supported world wide. The systems can be custom configured to meet any budget or specifications. PSSC Labs will soon be releasing new versions of the PowerServe platform that will support up to 1.0TB of system memory.
About PSSC Labs
PSSC Labs is not just another computer company. Instead PSSC Labs is a solution focused provide of high performance computing equipment bundled with application software and management tools. This approach allows PSSC Labs to offer the most turn-key computing solutions possible allowing end users to focus on their work and not managing complex computer systems. For more information please visit www.pssclabs.com.
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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.
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