PRESS RELEASE
Verari Systems Software™ MPI/Pro® Selected for Cornell Theory Center Cluster
Explanation goes here (sub title stuff, not on all PR pages, if not comment this line out)
Contact Mike LaPan (858) 874-3800
Ithaca, NY – December 13, 2006 – The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), an interdisciplinary research center at Cornell University focused on providing cyberinfrastructure resources for research and education, upgraded a part of its Velocity III Cluster to Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 64-bit operating system and deployed Verari Systems Software’s (VSS) MPI/Pro®.
CTC’s Velocity III cluster is comprised of 180 Intel Dual Processor 3.6GHz Xeon machines, a portion of which, were upgraded to 64-bit operating system. CTC selected VSS’s MPI/Pro 2.1.0 a commercial version of the MPI standard, for the cluster’s message passing architecture.
VSS’s MPI/Pro 2.1.0 handles long-running, complex scientific simulations with the scalability and reliability required by Cornell researchers and CTC’s corporate program members. It supports OpenMP, a variety of compilers, and the features of MPI-2, such as one sided communication and extended collective operations. CTC has been running MPI/Pro on its production clusters since the product was first released in 1999. Verari Systems Software’s recent 64-bit version enables CTC to continue to run the latest high-performance computing software stacks.
“The newest release of MPI/Pro will allow our users’ codes to use more memory and therefore run larger, more accurate simulations,” explains David Lifka, CTC’s Technical Director for Data Intensive Computing.
“Verari Systems Software and CTC have worked successfully as partners for the last seven years. CTC choosing Verari Systems Software’s 64-bit MPI/Pro reinforces our place as a leading commercial MPI provider,” stated Jennifer Skjellum, VSS’s President.
About CTC
CTC is an interdisciplinary research center at Cornell University focused on providing cyberinfrastructure resources for research and education; these resources include high-performance and data-intensive computing hardware and expertise, visualization, and K-12 outreach. Scientific and engineering projects supported by CTC represent a wide variety of disciplines, including bioinformatics, behavioral and social sciences, computer science, engineering, geosciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and business.
About Verari Systems Software
Verari Systems Software, Inc., is a leading provider of cluster computing and embedded high performance computing software. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Verari Systems Software specializes in COTS and COTS+ solutions for enterprise parallel computing. Please visit the Verari Systems Software web site at www.verarisoft.com.
About Verari Systems
Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of powerful, flexible and scalable platform-independent blade-based compute and storage solutions that are defining a new era in enterprise and high performance utility computing for the data center. Organizations such as Akamai, CGGVeritas, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm and Sony Imageworks, as well as top universities and research institutions worldwide, are among the customers who have chosen Verari Systems' line of high density blade servers, modular storage blades, rack-optimized servers and award-winning software solutions. To learn more about Verari Systems and its unique solutions, please visit us on the web at http://www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.
