Monday, January 26, 2009

Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster and Wolfram gridMathematica™

Accelerate your business and research outcomes with ready-to-go HPC solution


Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster (WC) built on Intel® Multi-Flex Technology is an affordable, simple, and fully integrated supercomputer-in-a-box. The combination of Wolfram Research's gridMathematica™ and Colfax CX6000 WC puts the power of high-performance computing (HPC) in the hands of individuals and workgroups of engineers, scientists, and financial professionals, without the complexity and expense of an enterprise-level cluster system.

Overview
Small and midsize companies, distributed remote or smaller sites, workgroup and departmental environments can now benefit by having a fully integrated cluster rapidly process complex data sets and run their compute-intensive workloads - freeing up valuable workstation resources to gain insight, innovate, and accomplish more in less time.

Small Footprint - Extreme Performance
Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster (WC) is an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use, affordable turnkey system that delivers 576 Gigaflops peak performance1. The CX6000 WC comes in a small footprint, plugs into a standard power outlet, is quiet enough to sit by the deskside, and there is no need for messy or complicated wiring. From ease of installation to cluster management, it allows workgroups to focus on driving new levels of innovation and productivity - and not on keeping the cluster running.

Significantly Reduced Complexity, Hassle-Free, Supercomputer-in-a-Box
Colfax CX6000 WC with integrated compute, storage, networking, and management capabilities in an all-in-one-box enclosure vastly simplifies IT sprawl and dramatically reduces complexity. Colfax CX6000 WC with a modular, open, building-block foundation provides grow as-you-go flexibility and user-friendly plug-and-play servicing without the complexity of cables and tools or special power, cooling and staff requirements.

The Colfax CX6000 WC supports up to six Multi-Core Intel® Xeon® dual processor-based Server Compute Modules for a max of 48 processing cores and 192GB of max memory, 14 storage drives, as well as two Ethernet switch modules, integrated SAN (storage attached network) and a management module. The multi-core compute modules speed up individual applications, solve problems faster, process larger data sets, and meet bigger challenges in a collaborative workgroup environment. Fully redundant components and advanced data protection means that customers can achieve increased uptime and peace of mind. Energy-efficient performance and greater asset utilization lowers costs while boosting productivity.

Incredibly Easy-to-Manage
Businesses, scientists, and engineers are increasingly forced to do more with less. You would rather spend time gaining insight into the problem at hand instead of the increased administration efforts in running and managing high-performance computing systems. Colfax CX6000 WC has been designed to minimize IT administration headaches. Colfax CX6000 WC simplifies systems management with easy-to-use point-and-click management. A highly integrated management console allows the user to configure all aspects of the system from a single interface. Full remote management of the system including virtual presence allows you to see your configuration and system from a remote location. Remote Media allows easy remote installs from anywhere and intuitive navigation allows you to configure your storage, network and servers within minutes.

ISV Partnerships - Wolfram gridMathematica™ Certified
Additionally turnkey, application-specific solutions are available that can be quickly deployed and accelerate time-to-market. The first of these application-tuned configurations, Wolfram Research's gridMathematica™ - a powerful parallel technical-computing system for finding solutions to challenging problems on the frontiers of science, engineering, finance, and business analysis is available for purchase as a pre-installed option with Colfax CX6000 WC. gridMathematica 2.2 couples the new functionality of Mathematica 6 - dynamic interactivity, 2D and 3D visualization, and integrated on demand data services - to the efficiency of Colfax CX6000 WC. Combined with Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, the gridMathematica Colfax solution offers researchers and analysts a seamless way to upscale performance beyond the desktop by tapping into clustered compute power. Leveraging the power of clusters to accelerate your business and research outcomes is now easy with a pre-configured and delivered ready-to-go gridMathematica Colfax solution.

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