Colfax International

Colfax International selected as Authorized Integrator of Dolphin Products

2009-02-23T10:38:00.000-08:00

Provides integrated solutions for remote PCI Express IO and accelerator scaling

Sunnyvale, CA & Marlborough, MA – February xx, 2009 – Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global provider of high performance PCI Express interconnect solutions, today announced that Colfax International has been signed as an Authorized Integrator for its expansion products. Dolphin’s PCI Express expansion products are exclusively available through its Authorized Integrators ensuring the highest level of customer support including validation, benchmarking, customization and integration.

Colfax International is a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions. Through partnerships with premier technology providers, Colfax provides customized solutions engineered for high performance, reliability, serviceability and rapid deployment. Colfax has the technical sophistication to ensure customers receive appropriate support throughout their evaluation and integration process.

“Dolphin is focused on innovation and development of high performance components based on PCI Express technology that accelerate customer’s applications. We are pleased to partner with Colfax to bring our solutions out to new markets,” says Tim Miller, CEO of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. “Our most demanding customers are looking for purpose built systems where high performance and low cost are common requirements. With Dolphin’s advanced product lines and Colfax’s full-service approach to translate advanced technologies into business value, we are in a good position to service this market.”

“At Colfax, our mission has always been to combine our vision and experience to deliver innovative, state of the art and highly optimized solutions to help meet the unique needs of each customer. Fulfilling our mission requires state of the art technology components, and Dolphin’s line of high performance products based on PCI Express fits perfect into our portfolio,” said Gautam Shah, Colfax CEO.

Dolphin’s expansion products are well suited for applications in the security, video, financial, scientific and industrial markets. Dolphin’s PCI Express expansion solutions enable up to 8 PCI Express IO or accelerator modules to be housed in a remote chassis which can be positioned up to 300 meters from the host server. Enhanced capabilities allow dual 8x PCI Express links between the remote chassis and server (40Gb/sec), as well as connection to multiple servers from a single expansion chassis.

Dolphin’s partnership with Colfax will expand in coming months with the introduction of additional PCI Express solutions and appliances slated for Q2.

About Colfax International

Colfax International is a global provider of customized workstations, servers, clusters and storage solutions. Colfax International combines unparalleled experience in hardware and software architecture with an unwavering commitment to customer service to deliver solutions that meet or exceed the unique needs of each customer. Founded in 1987, Colfax International is based in Sunnyvale, California and is privately held. For more information, please visit http://www.colfaxinternational.com/.

About Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions of Oslo, Norway and Marlborough, Massachusetts (USA) accelerates applications by providing ultra low-latency, high-bandwidth computer interconnect solutions based on PCI Express. These products provide very low overhead communication, extremely low latencies and high throughput, all vital factors for communication that requires frequent transfer of small data packets and are ideal for clustered database, web services and many industrial applications. The Dolphin software library is fully transparent to applications making application integration easy. Dolphin’s PCI Express expansion products are fully compatible with off the shelf application software and device drivers. For more information, please visit http://www.dolphinics.com/.

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Media Contacts:
Mike Fay
VP Marketing for Colfax Phone: 408-730-2275 x 127
mike@colfax-intl.com

Jon Snilsberg
VP Marketing for Dolphin
Phone: (508) 786-9950
js@dolphinisc.com

Promise VTrak J610s 16 Drive SAS to SATA/SAS 3U Rackmount Storage System

2009-02-13T13:33:00.000-08:00

Robust Serial Attached SCSI RAID System with Redundant Controllers and SAS JBOD Expansion

High Availability
Promise VTrak E-Class is a family of intelligent, dual controller, SAS/SATA based storage arrays that fundamentally changes storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. Four 3Gb SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) x4 host interface ports per controller provide a reliable, high-performance alternative to Ultra SCSI 320 storage applications. Each standard 3U, 19" rack unit supports up to 16 off-the-shelf 3.5" SAS or SATA 3Gb/s drives. Attach up to four SAS JBODs to deliver 80 drive bays of direct attached storage.

Simple and Familiar Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Direct Attached Storage remains a favorite of SMB operations worldwide. Easy to configure and familiar even to novice system administrators, SAS inherits all of the DAS attributes while leaving its limitations far behind. With advanced multi-pathing capabilities, cascade support and full redundancy, the VTrak E-Class goes where parallel SCSI products cannot reach.

No Single Point of Failure
This enterprise-class, cable-less system design includes fully redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power and cooling units. All system components are constantly monitored using industry standard protocols to ensure continuous operation in case of failure or component malfunction. Dual active-active, failover/failback RAID controllers provide redundant data paths to further help ensure availability.

RAID 6
RAID 6 (double parity) delivers the highest level of reliability and data protection in a cost-effective solution. As the capacity of storage arrays increases, so does the risk of encountering unrecoverable read errors with single parity RAID levels. RAID 6 can handle double-drive failures, thereby providing greater protection against data loss. This also dramatically reduces the risk of catastrophic data loss during RAID rebuilds.

Easy to Install and Manage
The VTrak line features Promise's embedded browser-based management interface, WebPAM PROe, eliminating the need to install additional software. All VTrak systems on the network can be configured and monitored using a single, easy-to-manage interface through an out-of-band Ethernet port. By using industry-standard management protocols, Promise simplifies integration with third-party management applications.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=97&S=21&B=1625

Promise SmartStor™ NS2300N

2009-02-12T14:19:00.000-08:00

2-Drive SOHO NAS with 10/100/1000 ethernet connectivity and utilizing proven Promise RAID technology

Promise Technology brings its proven enterprise-class RAID technology to the SOHO/SMB users. SmartStor™ safeguards your digital contents and makes them readily available to networked users.

Digital Media Streaming in the Home
The SmartStor™ NS2300N functions as a Digital Media Streaming Server by utilizing DLNA's UPnP Protocol via Home and Local Area Networks. As a UPnP Certified Device, UPnP Media Control Points can discover and stream Music, Pictures and Video (JPEG, MP3, MPEG2, WMV and more) directly from the SmartStor™ NS2300N using applications such as PowerDVD, Nero Showtime, Wireless HD Media Players and Sony's PlayStation 3. When using Wireless HD Media Players or the PlayStation 3, No "PC" is needed for streaming services enabling you to view your Pictures and Videos in the comfort of your living room. In the near future HDTV LCD/Plasma Displays and Kitchen Appliances will be UPnP capable allowing access to your Personal Digital Entertainment anywhere in the Home.

Simplified Resource and File Sharing
As a small footprint BYOD (bring-your-own-disk) multi-terabyte SATA Network Storage Server, SmartStor™ NS2300N provides an easy, cost effective solution for SOHO & SMB users to share files and network resources. Support up to four hot-swappable SATA 3Gb/s hard drives, NS2300N allows you to expand capacity as your needs grow at the lowest incremental cost. Comprehensive file sharing protocols support enables cross-platform file services for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh. SmartStor™ NS2300N can help to maximize your ROI and productivity by providing a scalable file service and print service solution.

New User Interface and Easy Management Feature
SmartNAVI, the advanced client utility for SmartStor™ NAS, inherits all features from the previous generation NAS Utility and is enhanced with AI (Artificial Intelligence). SmartNAVI can discover the client side network topology and optimize the SmartStor™ for the user's environment. This technology enables the user to configure SmartStor™ in two steps without any network knowledge. Additionally, an enhanced interface helps users access services on SmartStor™ via system navigator and quick menu.
Besides DHCP support for easy network configuration, SmartStor™ NS2300N features various management tools to meet the needs of novices and advanced users. The easy Setup Wizard requires only few clicks to complete SmartStor™ NS2300N installation. The embedded web-based GUI management software, WebPASM, allows you to fully configure, monitor, shut down, and restart SmatStor™ N2300N from local or remote site.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=97&S=21&B=1871

Colfax CX7400 Blade Server

2009-02-11T14:35:00.000-08:00

Unprecedented performance-per-watt and energy-efficiency for HPC applications

Exceptional Performance-per-Watt
The Colfax CX7400 Blade Server is built from the ground up to combat IT sprawl and complexity. The CX7400 is perfect for HPC applications with performance & density optimized to achieve 112 processing cores and 336GB DDR2 memory in 7U standard rack. This powerful blade system features 100-240VAC, ultra high-efficiency (93%), N+1 redundant power supplies, along with industry-leading density performance/watt and price/performance.

Best-of-Class Energy-Efficiency
With Colfax blade servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but save on energy bills. The CX7400 enclosure takes advantage of thermal design efficiencies, such as ultra-efficient power supplies (93%), dynamic power efficient fans with optimized airflow design to efficiently cool the chassis and enable better performance in a lower power envelope.

Benefits
• Industry-leading performance/watt – best for HPC applications
• Ultra-high power efficiency – energy savings
• High performance, high availability, high density
• Industry-leading price/performance
• Low TCO - lower than rackmount server systems

Space Optimization
Housed within a 19" industry-standard rack, CX7400 servers reduce server footprint in the data center. Power, cooling and networking devices are aggregated in the rear of the chassis which optimizes the required amount of space.

Up to fourteen blade servers can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the 14U of rack space that fourteen 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the CX7400 provides about 100% density savings with 84 servers in a 42U rack.

Cable Reduction
The CX7400 server chassis enclosure greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of fourteen servers at once. Up to 90% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for fourteen 1U servers are reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.

Reducing the number of cables speeds up the deployment of servers and helps reduce troubleshooting issues by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=125&S=49&B=1943

Colfax CX7100 Blade Server

2009-02-09T13:37:00.000-08:00

Unprecedented performance-per-watt and energy-efficiency

A Flexible System That Provides Exceptional Performance-per-Watt
The Colfax CX7100 Blade Server is built from the ground up to combat IT sprawl and complexity. The CX7100 delivers one of the most energy efficient, flexible, and manageable blade server product in the market. Flexible and scalable, the CX7100 packs 10 server blades with 20 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors or 40 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. Easy to use remote management tools, Gigabit Ethernet switch modules, InfiniBand switch modules, as well as 3+1 redundant high-efficiency power supplies keep the system running 24 x 7 at peak performance. Offering industry leading performance and density at a lower total cost, the CX7100 is the perfect choice for high performance computing environments.

Best-of-Class Energy-Efficiency
With Colfax blade servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but save on energy bills. The CX7100 enclosure takes advantage of thermal design efficiencies, such as ultra-efficient power supplies (93%), dynamic power efficient fans with optimized airflow design to efficiently cool the chassis and enable better performance in a lower power envelope.

Space Optimization
Housed within a 19" industry-standard rack, CX7100 servers reduce server footprint in the data center. Power, cooling and networking devices are aggregated in the rear of the chassis which optimizes the required amount of space.

Up to ten blade servers can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the 10U of rack space that ten 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the CX7100 provides about 50% density savings with 60 servers and 24 switches in a 42U rack.

Cable Reduction
The CX7100 server chassis enclosure greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 90% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers are reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.

Reducing the number of cables speeds up the deployment of servers and helps reduce troubleshooting issues by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.

For more information, http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=125&S=49&B=1938

Colfax CX6000 Modular Server

2009-02-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

Focus On Managing The Business. Not Your IT Systems.

The Colfax CX6000 Modular Server (MS) based on Intel® Xeon® Processor, is a business-in-a-box server system that helps growing businesses like yours dramatically simplify IT complexity. Colfax CX6000 MS puts the power of high-performance computing in your hands to drive new levels of productivity - all this within your budget.

A simple, flexible system that provides exceptional value

The Colfax CX6000 MS built on Intel® Multi-Flex Technology integrates storage, computing, and networking to simplify complex IT environments. It has the ability to support up to six Server Compute Modules and 14 SAS 2.5" hard disk drives, as well as two Ethernet Switch Modules, integrated SAN, and a Management Module. The CX6000 MS comes in a small footprint, plugs into a 100-240V power outlet and there is no need for messy or complicated wiring. As an integrated system, the CX6000 MS has capabilities not found in the common rack server setup, including virtual drives that provide grow-as-you-go flexibility and Virtual Presence management for simplicity. The CX6000 MS is a flexible and powerful solution for the small to midsize business (SMB).

Incredibly easy-to-manage
Today's SMB IT administrators are increasingly asked to do more with less. Being able to use time efficiently is not just a luxury-it is critical to providing the service levels expected. Having to manage a wide array of IT devices, each with different management tools and interfaces, can turn seemingly simple tasks into hours of struggle.

The CX6000 MS simplifies systems management for IT administrators, freeing them to spend more time on proactive maintenance and allowing them react quicker to unexpected events. It provides the convenience of an all-in-one, integrated system with easy-to-use point-and-click management. Compute, storage, and network resources are combined into one chassis, all managed by a highly intuitive and secure Web-based interface.

Real Life Benefits for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses

Reduced Complexity
A single system will reduce strain on IT resources. The simplification of servers, networking, and storage on a single chassis gives SMB IT administrators one less fire to fight.

Improved Flexibility
Manage your systems instead of letting them manage you. Reduce IT management complexity as well as cabling by having server, storage, and network all in one easy-to-use chassis.

Improved Uptime
As a SMB with a smaller IT infrastructure, you can't afford to have even one server down. The CX6000 MS provides redundancy beyond rack-mounted or pedestal servers with RAID capabilities and server failover to help increase availability.

Improved Data Protection
Centralized backup with snapshot capabilities enables easier archiving with increased backup sessions. In case of a failure, this enables you to minimize loss of critical data.

End-to-End Management
Intel's Virtual Presence technology allows you to see what hardware is physically deployed in the chassis, and do bare-metal discovery of networking, storage, and servers, all from a single Web-based interface. See the status of the system and all of its components just like you were standing in front of it with Virtual Presence technology.

Cost Effective
Spend less money than you would for individual components, but get far greater capabilities: up to six servers, SAS-based SAN, and a GigE switch bundled and pre-configured, plus Virtual Presence for comprehensive, easy-to-use management. And because it is all in a single chassis, save 20%-30% on cooling and power costs.

Improved Asset Utilization
Shared storage enables 100% utilization of all hard drives, so you don't waste money on under-used resources. Adding drives to scale your storage is a snap, with the Virtual Presence management interface. And the CX6000 chassis is designed for multiple generations of CPUs, so your servers are fully utilized.

Unique Serviceability
Servers, hard drives, fans, and power supplies are hot swappable with no tools required. As well, the CX6000's system management tools enable remote, out-of-band management from any location.

Grows as Your Business Grows
Complete separation of storage from servers lets you increase your storage and your compute capabilities at separate rates. Buy more storage and more processing power when you need it, but not before.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight.asp?IT=0&RID=125

Promise SmartStor™ NS4300N

2009-02-05T14:46:00.000-08:00

Promise SmartStor™ NS4300N

4-Drive SOHO NAS with 10/100/1000 ethernet connectivity and utilizing proven Promise RAID technology

Promise Technology brings its proven enterprise-class RAID technology to the SOHO/SMB users. SmartStor™ safeguards your digital contents and makes them readily available to networked users.

Digital Media Streaming in the Home
The SmartStor NS4300N functions as a Digital Media Streaming Server by utilizing DLNA's UPnP Protocol via Home and Local Area Networks. As a UPnP Certified Device, UPnP Media Control Points can discover and stream Music, Pictures and Video (JPEG, MP3, MPEG2, WMV and more) directly from the SmartStor NS4300N using applications such as PowerDVD, Nero Showtime, Wireless HD Media Players and Sony's PlayStation 3. When using Wireless HD Media Players or the PlayStation 3, No "PC" is needed for streaming services enabling you to view your Pictures and Videos in the comfort of your living room. In the near future HDTV LCD/Plasma Displays and Kitchen Appliances will be UPnP capable allowing access to your Personal Digital Entertainment anywhere in the Home.

Simplified Resource and File Sharing
As a small footprint BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Drives) multi-terabyte SATA Network Attached Storage, SmartStor NS4300N provides an easy, cost effective solution for SOHO & SMB users to share files and network resources. Support up to four hot-swappable SATA 3Gb/s hard drives, NS4300N allows you to expand capacity as your needs grow at the lowest incremental cost. Comprehensive file sharing protocols support enables cross-platform file services for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh. SmartStor™ NS4300N can help to maximize your ROI and productivity by providing a scalable file service and print service solution.

Ease of Installation and Management
Besides DHCP support for easy network configuration, SmartStor™ NS4300N features various management tools to meet the needs of novices and advanced users. The easy Setup Wizard requires only few clicks to complete installation of the SmartStor™ NS4300N. For Advanced users, the embedded web-based GUI management software, WebPASM, allows the users to fully configure, monitor, shut down, and restart SmatStor™ N4300N locally and remotely.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=97&S=21&B=1870

Colfax CX4470-X2 4U Rackmount Server

2009-02-04T14:43:00.000-08:00

4-Processor Colfax CX4470-X2 4U Rackmount Server delivers expansive processor, memory, and I/O capacity and bandwidth for virtualization; leading scalable performance; and proven enterprise-class dependability for consolidation.

Scalable Performance
Supporting exceptional performance gains, Colfax CX4470-X2 with Intel® Xeon® 7400 series processor provides an outstanding 4-processor rack server solution for database and enterprise-class computing. By providing scalability in processing, I/O, and system memory while improving energy efficiency through decreased power requirements, these servers increase IT’s agility for data-intensive applications and infrastructure. With fewer servers to manage and maintain along with increased capacity within the server itself, you can scale your infrastructure and increase ROI while decreasing TCO.

Expansive Capacity and Bandwidth
Perfect for high-performance and large dataset needs, the 4-processor Colfax CX4470-X2 offers support for up to 24 processor cores per server and an increased processor cache, available on Intel Xeon 7400 series processor, to give you the headroom and reliability your applications demand. Broad capacity combined with the ability to run simultaneous processes with more cores and multi-threading capabilities provides a rock-solid foundation for server consolidation, virtualization, and enterprise IT infrastructures.

Proven Dependability
Colfax CX4470-X2 helps ensure robust server reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). Features such as hot-swap SAS drives for internal storage needs, redundant cooling and power, integrated I/O expansion, server management, and RAID provide you peace of mind and a rock-solid server system you can count on now and in the future.

For more information, visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=122&S=45&B=1837

Colfax CXT3000N Personal Supercomputer (PSC)

2009-02-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

At SC08 NVIDIA announces the Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk. The NVIDIA® Tesla Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA CUDA™ parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores.

The Colfax CXT3000N PSC lets you own the computing power you need to process massive data-sets, speed calculations, and solve problems impossible with current computing approaches. Configurable with up to 4 NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060s to deliver nearly 4 Teraflops of peak performance, the CXT3000N delivers cluster level computing performance — right at your desktop.

Come get yours!
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RNA networks’ Memory Virtualization Platform™

2009-02-02T14:18:00.000-08:00

RNA's Memory Virtualization PlatformTM (MVP) is a large capacity shared pool of virtualized memory that is accessible via the network fabric, providing unparalleled resource utilization and performance in the enterprise data center. The MVP delivers unmatched performance and scalability for performance critical applications.

Memory: The Data Center Bottleneck

Business critical applications demand high performance from all network resources to derive value out of the ever-increasing volume of data. Application data quickly adds up to terabytes: datasets much too large to fit in even large scale local RAM. Memory is emerging as a critical bottleneck in performance slowdowns for applications where latency and throughput matter most.

Memory Virtualization Breaks The Performance Barrier

For the first time, Memory Virtualization decouples memory from its physical environment, making it a shared resource across the data center or cluster. This is not more addressable memory but virtualized memory shared between multiple machines. Memory Virtualization, as a shared network resource, allows large datasets to be processed much faster, meaning less waiting for queries and faster application runtimes.

With Memory Virtualization, RNA networks has solved the key barrier to increasing the efficiency of existing networking resources in order to improve the performance of business critical applications.

RNA networks' Memory Virtualization Solution

RNA's Memory Virtualization PlatformTM (MVP) is a large capacity shared pool of virtualized memory that is accessible via the network fabric, enabling virtualization of the core information technology elements of the 21st century data center. The RNA MVP addresses today's IT performance challenges and paves the way for new business computing scenarios by eliminating application bottlenecks associated with memory and data sharing.

Benefits of RNA networks' Memory Virtualization Solution

Accelerate data-intensive applications by 10-30X

Allow multiple servers to operate on a single, large dataset delivering results more rapidly

Highly scalable parallel architecture easily scales to support hundreds of nodes

Improve utilization of memory, CPU, and storage resources to reduce cost and footprint

Commodity-based memory appliances add 32GB of memory with integrated Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor

RNA's Products - RNAcache and RNAmessenger

Currently available RNA products, RNAcache and RNAmessenger, deliver optimized data center utilization, performance, and reliability with minimum risk and immediate business results.

RNAcache virtualizes memory into a Collaborative Cache. RNAcache is designed for applications that are I/O intensive and can take advantage of large scale memory sharing, with

RNAcache application data and network bottlenecks are removed.

Specifically designed to deliver messages with ultra-low latency, RNAmessenger virtualizes messaging solutions into a Collaborative Cache. With RNAmessenger, high-volume certified transaction processing is enabled. Small message sizes (i.e. hundreds of bytes) are handled as efficiently as large data sets.

Deployment

RNAcache and RNAmessenger are bundled and delivered with the RNA Appliance to provide simple deployment and operation. RNA products can be implemented on a dedicated high-performance overlay network or as part of the established GbE network fabric. Since memory virtualization is application centric, RNA's products work with most commonly deployed operating system kernels.

For more information, please visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight.asp?IT=0&RID=133

Colfax CXT3000N Personal Supercomputer (PSC)

2009-01-30T11:37:00.000-08:00

Your Own Supercomputer
Dedicated computing resource for every computational researcher and technical professional.

Cluster Performance on Your Desktop
The performance of a cluster in a desktop system. Four Tesla GPU computing processors deliver nearly 4 teraflops of performance.

Designed for Office Use
Plugs into a standard office power socket and quiet enough for use at your desk.

Massively Parallel Many Core GPU Architecture
240 parallel processor cores per GPU that can execute thousands of concurrent threads.

4GB High-Speed Memory per GPU
Dedicated compute memory enables larger datasets to be stored locally for each processor minimizing data movement around the system.

IEEE 754 Floating Point Precision (Single-Precision and Double-Precision)
Provides results that are consistent across platforms and meet industry standards.

64-bit ALUs for Double -Precision Math
Meets the precision requirements of your most demanding applications with 64-bit ALUs.

For more information, please visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=130&S=54&B=1903

Colfax Workstation CX995

2009-01-28T12:24:00.000-08:00

The Colfax Workstation CX995 incorporates the Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors, heralding new levels of workstation performance and visualization for compute intensive environments. Additionally the CX995 incorporates dual PCI Express x16 graphics, high speed networking, flexible storage and power options, all in a 3U chassis with advanced airflow and thermal-control design.

For more information, please visit http://www.colfax-intl.com/jlrid/SpotLight_more_Acc.asp?L=88&S=14&B=1304

Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster and Wolfram gridMathematica™

2009-01-26T14:35:00.000-08:00

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.

HPC Advisory Council Brings Cluster Computing to Torrey Pines High School

2009-01-21T12:53:00.000-08:00

One of the key challenges for America’s economic future is to provide advanced educational opportunities for the next generation of leaders. Throughout the country, high schools offer advanced mathematics classes, and students are eager to learn how to apply the latest computer and software technology to real-world problems in engineering, math, life sciences, and economics. Now, the HPC Advisory Council has contributed to these efforts by providing hardware, software, and guidance on the use of an advanced cluster computing system to Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California.

Single-Processor Hardware Limits Math Software
Among the 2500 students at Torrey Pines High School, many are very interested in math, science, and technology topics in preparation for careers in engineering, medicine, software development, and other disciplines. For students who have already completed other advanced courses such as Advanced Placement Calculus, teacher Abby Brown offers a course called Advanced Topics in Math.

The class was formed a few years ago in partnership with Wolfram Research to give students an opportunity to explore their own projects with Wolfram’s Mathematica program, which is one of the standard math tools used in industry. Using Mathematica, students have learned about areas of math outside of the traditional school curriculum and have applied math in fields such as physics and economics. Unfortunately, the complexity of student math problems meant that individual problems took up to several minutes to execute, with a typical problem taking more than a minute. Given the limited class time, this bottleneck meant that only a handful of students could explore their own projects during any given session.

Searching for a way to upgrade the computing hardware, Brown reached out to her contacts at Wolfram Research. “Through the partnership with Wolfram, we got in touch with the High Performance Computing (HPC) Advisory Council,” says Brown.

Formed in May 2008, the HPC Advisory Council is a computing ecosystem comprised of more than 60 members, including best-in-class original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), strategic technology suppliers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and selected end-users across the entire range of HPC market segments. The Council’s main mission is to educate students and industry about the beneficial capabilities of HPC for research, education, innovation and product manufacturing, and to help users gain the expertise needed to operate HPC systems. The Council also provides application designers with the tools needed to enable parallel computing, and strengthens the qualification and integration of HPC system products.

“The Council was interested in donating a cluster computing system in a high school setting,” says Brown, “and my classroom was chosen to be the recipient. It was a great opportunity to give the students access to cutting-edge computing technology, and to learn about an area of computing that they would not normally see.”

Parallel Processing Performance
On December 15th, 2008, students in the Advanced Topics in Math class arrived to find several boxes containing an HPC system provided by the HPC Advisory Council. Consisting of four compute nodes provided by Colfax International and powered by quad-core AMD processors, the computers are connected with network switches and adapters based on Mellanox high-speed InfiniBand technology. The system included Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 and Wolfram Research gridMathematica, which allows math problems to be distributed across all four servers for faster processing of complex mathematical simulations.

With this donation, the class now had a cluster based on the same architecture used by many of the world’s fastest supercomputers, including the fastest supercomputer in the world, which is located in Los Alamos National Laboratory. Even though it was a powerful system, however, it was easy to set up and use by students in the class.

“We hooked it up in about twenty minutes the day it arrived, and the students worked with it all day,” says Brown. “Everything was color-coded. We just set up the servers and switches, plugged the monitor and keyboard, and connected the servers with the InfiniBand switch so they could exchange data while working on problems. It was much easier than the students or I had expected.”

Once it was up and running, the cluster immediately began delivering outstanding performance. In one example, a Mathematica problem that took a minute or more to run on the old single-processor system now runs in five seconds on the cluster under GridMathematica.

“This has made a big difference,” says Brown. “We had been hoping to expand the types of Mathematica projects we could do since we were time-limited by our old single-processor system. With this new cluster, we can tackle broader projects that more people in the class can work on, and maybe get farther into some real-life applications.”

Under the terms of the donation, the HPC Council Advisory will provide support for the Torrey Pines High School system throughout the cluster’s lifetime, and will also offer educational support on parallel computing usage models. As it is, however, the students have taken to the system so quickly that they may not need much support. “The students seem to be moving ahead with the new system without any direction at all,” says Brown. “It’s really great to see them so excited about this new capability and to see them putting it to use immediately.”

With the power of advanced cluster-based computing at its disposal, the Advanced Topics in Math class at Torrey Pines High School has significantly expanded its field of exploration. Now, students can apply their skills and interests in the process of learning about high performance cluster computing technology, gaining important skills that will help advance their careers – and America’s technical prowess – in the future.

New Quadro graphics card has low profile, two GPUs

2009-01-20T18:20:00.000-08:00

Now you can get multi-GPU workstation graphics goodness in one of those slim desktops, too. Nvidia has announced the Quadro NVS 420, a graphics card it claims to be "the industry's only low profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor computer."

The firm isn't kidding when it talks about display real estate, either. This small card can accommodate up to four 30" 2560x1600 displays thanks to a proprietary-looking connector at the back, which can apparently spider out into four dual-link DVI ports. Other than that, the official spec sheet advertises two GPUs each with 256MB of memory, a 64-bit memory interface, and 11.2GB/s of memory bandwidth. Nvidia specifies 16 stream processors for the entire card, as well.

Despite the two GPUs and the active cooling, the card has pretty reasonable power draw—just 40W at full load, Nvidia claims. Nevertheless, you'll have to cough up $499 for one of these babies when they hit the market next month.

NVIDIA® Quadro®. Built for Professionals™

2009-01-06T11:19:00.000-08:00

Are you ready to maximize your AutoCAD productivity? Boost your performance with NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics solutions that are Built For Professionals™. With AutoCAD you can leverage the capabilities of NVIDIA® Quadro® professional-class GPUs to fully incorporate high-quality 3D models into your work flow. The partnership between NVIDIA® and Autodesk delivers a certified hardware-software solution that enables you to create and interact with complex product designs without sacrificing visual quality. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com/builtforpros.

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Colfax CXT3000 Personal Supercomputer (PSC)

2008-11-21T12:04:00.000-08:00

The Colfax CXT3000 PSC lets you own the computing power you need to visualize large data-sets, speed calculations, and solve problems impossible with current computing approaches. Configurable with up to 3 NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060’s and 1 NVIDIA® Quadro® FX5800 to deliver multi-Teraflops of peak performance, the CXT3000 delivers cluster level computing performance — right at your desktop.

Overview
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Supercomputer For EveryoneIntroduction of Colfax CXT3000 PSC democratizes HPC by providing today’s professionals an affordable personal supercomputing resource on their desktop that is much faster and more energy-efficient than a shared cluster in the data center.
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NVIDIA CUDA™ Architecture Unlocks the Power Of GPU Parallel ComputingThe CUDA parallel computing architecture enhances performance by offloading computationally-intensive activities from the CPU to the GPU — unlocking the many-core processing power of NVIDIA GPUs to solve the most complex computation-intensive challenges such as protein docking, molecular dynamics, financial analysis, fluid dynamics, structural analysis and many others.

Visual Supercomputing Right On Your WorkstationThe Colfax CXT3000 PSC also features NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics, providing a powerful versatile solution that has been engineered to meet the graphics and high-performance computing demands of professional users. Working together, Colfax integrates NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla solutions to ensure optimized system performance.

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