SiCortex Expands Presence with UK Reseller Agreement
Maynard, Mass. and Warwick, UK, March 4, 2008 -- SiCortex, the emerging leader in
compact, low power Linux® clusters, today announced that it has entered into an
agreement with Streamline Computing, a leading provider of high performance
computing (HPC) systems and software, to sell SiCortex’s family of ultra compact, high
performance Linux systems in the United Kingdom.
“We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the most advanced high
performance computing technology,” said John Taylor, chief technology officer for
Streamline. “SiCortex’s combination of dramatically reduced power usage and industryleading
performance enables us to offer a compelling alternative to our customers.”
Streamline Computing is the UK's leading provider of HPC clusters and services. With
specialist knowledge of operating systems (including Linux, Microsoft and Unix), enduser
applications and cluster middleware, Streamline provides integrated compute,
storage and visualization solutions with outstanding value for money and maximum
system performance. Streamline reduces the total cost of owning an HPC capability by
offering pre-qualified commodity hardware, fault-tolerant system designs, professional
management tools and first-class system support.
“We are seeing increasing customer acceptance of our groundbreaking approach to high
performance computing as we enter new markets and expand our product line to include
the SC072 and SC1458,” said SiCortex CEO Dr. John Mucci. “Working with a leading
HPC provider such as Streamline is another important step in the growth of our
company.”
SiCortex has introduced a new concept in high performance computing, limiting power
consumption and physical size to gain performance. The company has implemented a
complete cluster node on a chip, including six 64-bit processors, multiple memory
controllers, a high performance cluster interconnect and a PCIexpress connection to
storage and internetworking. A SiCortex cluster node consumes 15 watts of power, an
order of magnitude less than the 250 watts used in a conventional cluster node.
SiCortex’s product line ranges from the SC072 deskside supercomputer to the SC5832,
which can perform six trillion operations per second in a cabinet that is less than onethird
the size of conventional clusters.
“At Streamline, we recognize that low power, high performance computing systems, as
developed by SiCortex, fill a growing need in the HPC space as cost and competition for
power, space and cooling increases. The Sicortex platform is also an ideal solution for
parallel software developers who need desktop and office-based supercomputers to
ensure that their applications can scale to large numbers of processors on production
systems.We are very pleased to be able to offer SiCortex's competitive solutions
alongside our existing product portfolio” said Dr Richard Groves, COO at Streamline
Computing. “By addressing the total cost of cluster ownership, we believe we can satisfy
a growing need for more efficient high performance computing systems by offering
SiCortex systems."
About SiCortex
Headquartered near Boston, Mass., SiCortex, Inc. makes the world's most energy-efficient high-productivity computers. Its proven architecture was designed from the silicon up to provide breakthrough delivered performance at the lowest power consumption in the industry. SiCortex computers scale from 72 to 5,832 processors running Linux and other open-source codes, in packages ranging from deskside to departmental to data center. SiCortex systems are the compute-power behind some of the most important research initiatives at the country's national laboratories and academic institutions. For more information, visit http://www.sicortex.com/.
SiCortex Public Relations:
Dana Gulick
Racepoint Group
781-487-4673 (direct)
dgulick@racepointgroup.com
SiCortex:
Mark Blessing
Vice President, Marketing
SiCortex, Inc.
877.742.6783 x289
press@sicortex.com
