Penguin Computing announced the immediate availability of the Icebreaker CS storage platform for large scale-out cloud storage deployments. The Icebreaker CS is a fully integrated and pre-configured appliance that incorporates Scality's RING Organic Storage software. It will be available directly from Penguin as well as through Scality. The Icebreaker CS is based on the company's Icebreaker 4860 storage server. The system offers an extremely high storage density of 240TB of raw data in a 4U form factor. It is powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2600 processor and configured with 128GB of RAM. The system is offered with two configuration options featuring SATA hard drives for capacity focused deployments and a mix of SSDs and SATA drives for deployments that require maximum performance. The Icebreaker CS solution combines Scality's RING Organic Storage software with Penguin's high-density Icebreaker 4860 storage servers. Scality RING is based on a distributed, object based storage architecture that implements a 'shared nothing' approach without any single point of failure. Scality RING scales to billions of files andzettabytes of data and addresses the specific challenges associated with large scale storage where high data availability cannot be achieved through RAID configurations and data replication is costly. Scality RING delivers the levels of availability with its Advanced Resilience Configuration (ARC), a method based on erasure coding technology. With a 30% redundancy ratio a single 19" Icebreaker CS rack can store over 1.8 petabytes of data with 'six nines' of durability. The system is also self-healing, constantly 'scrubbing' data in the background. Organizations with multiple sites can achieve even higher levels of availability with Scality RING's geo-redundancy features. For enterprises storing data sets that need to be accessed at the levels of performance and other 'cold' data sets that are accessed less frequently Scality RING provides auto-tiering capabilities. Applications that access data stored on the Icebreaker CS can use a unified data interface capable of delivering local and remote, object and file access.

Penguin Computing, Inc. announced the availability of the Relion 2808GT. The Relion 2808GT supports eight GPUs or coprocessors in two rack units and provides a higher compute density than any other server on the market. The system's eight GPUs or coprocessors are supported by a dual socket platform based on Intel's Xeon E5-2600 product family. The Relion 2808GT also features an on board Dual 10GbE BASE-T controller and up to 512GB of ECC memory. Fully configured with eight NVidia K20 GPUs, for example, a single Relion 2808GT can achieve 28TFLOPs of single precision floating point performance. The Relion 2808GT is the ideal platform for running scientific and engineering applications that support GPUs or coprocessors such as Matlab, Amber or Abaqus. The Relion 2808GT will be displayed at the NVidia GPU Technology Conference from March 18 to March 21 in San Jose, California.

Penguin Computing, Inc. Presents at AGC Partners' 9th Annual InfoSec and Emerging Growth Conference, Feb-26-2013 09:15 AM. Venue: The Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States.