Loveland, Colorado -- 16 March 2005 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to announce the release of Y-HPC for Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.1, featuring a rebuild against the 2.6.10 kernel.
Y-HPC is Terra Soft's 64-bit PowerPC Linux operating system and cluster construction/management suite. In use by the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, University labs, and corporations nation-wide, Y-HPC offers a full 64-bit code development foundation and an advanced, rapid cluster construction and management suite.
Kai Staats, co-founder and CEO of Terra Soft offers, "Y-HPC is being adopted at a remarkable pace. In the course of a recent road tour I worked with a number of cluster admins who had come to accept six weeks to three months or more as standard to bring a cluster from physical construction to a useful state. This is not acceptable. Our customers are building 30 node clusters in just a few hours. larger systems limited only by the speed at which the nodes can be netbooted."
At the heart of Y-HPC is a node image delivery system which enables rapid compute node construction using an intuitive, graphical interface. Multiple node images may be built and maintained on the cluster server, used to test new image deployments while archiving tested, stable systems. Clusters may be logically divided into sub-systems where Y-Imager offers a visual means of maintaining the unique node images.
Two improvements to the Y-Imager GUI in this Y-HPC release are the addition of a table view to that of the original birds-eye grid and an improved color selector used to tag and rapidly identify unique node images within a cluster.
"As the developer of Y-Imager, manager of our realworld G5 test cluster, and support engineer, it has been rewarding to improve the Y-HPC suite and know it will immediately improve our customers' experience. The better Y-Imager works, the less time I spend on the phone. It's self motivating," states AJ Hawks, lead Y-Imager developer at Terra Soft.
Some applications and libraries included with Y-HPC:
PowerPC port of System Imager, unique Y-Imager user interface 64-bit gcc, toolchain, and the gdb (debugger) NFS, NIS PVFS2 (parallel virtual file system) Torque job scheduler MVAPICH, MPI-CH, LAM-MPI 64-bit InfiniBand driver from SBS Technologies lapack, linpack, and NCBI-BLAST
Beta releases of Sun Grid Engine and ganglia are available from YDL.net Pro accounts.
Terra Soft's customers are using Y-HPC in a wide array of functions: to build and manage Linux clusters, to serve NFS for OSX boxes, to control Xserve RAIDs, to support flight simulators, and to maintain mission-critical, high-availability web and email servers with greater than 60,000 users on a single box. Y-HPC has operated on 3000 CPUs, improving performance over OSX by up to 15% while enabling rapid code migration from Linux clusters built upon non-PowerPC architectures.
Customers include Lawrence Livermore and Pacific Northwest National Labs; Universities of Arizona, John Hopkins, Tulane, and UCLA; Boeing, Array Systems Computing, Lockheed Martin, Presearch, Progeny Systems, Rockwell Collins. and the Navy. Commercial customers include Boeing, Motorola, SBS, and Simulation Technologies.
Staats continues, "This spring we will finalize our support for IBM JS20s with a specific node image. The POWER5 will soon follow. And then the delivery of market specific node images to support specific fields of research. Our roadmap for Y-HPC is clear and far reaching. With the support of industry associates Absoft, Verari, Platform, SBS, Momentum, and IBM, Y-HPC for 970 and POWER systems is a strong contender in the HPC market."
More information is available at:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/
The new release of Y-HPC, a date-time stamped product, is immediately available from the YDL.net Pro accounts for existing customers. New purchases may be made on-line at http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/ or through Terra Soft's partners Amulet in Japan and IXSoft in Germany.
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in the PowerPC architecture and Linux OS platform. As an Apple Authorized Proprietary Solutions Provider and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides turnkey and build-to-order portables, desktop workstations, HA servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft's Y-HPC 64-bit OS and cluster construction suite is widely accepted as a preferred platform for Xserve clusters.
For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com
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