SiCortex Signs European Reseller Agreement
SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux® cluster from the silicon up, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with MEGWARE, a leading European high performance computing systems integrator, to sell SiCortex’s family of ultra compact, high performance Linux systems to the European market. MEGWARE will distribute SiCortex’s products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the Czech Republic.
“We expect SiCortex’s products to be very well received in the European market,” said Dirk Viertel, MEGWARE managing director. “Power consumption has become an increasing concern in Europe, and SiCortex’s ability to dramatically reduce power usage while providing industry-leading performance enables us to offer a unique solution to our customers.”
Since 1990 MEGWARE has been providing systems integration services to customers throughout Europe, with a specialty in HPC clusters. The company designs and builds custom systems as well as reselling systems and components from leading vendors. MEGWARE’s projects include cluster systems for the automotive, aircraft and aerospace industries, including Czech Republic automaker SKODA, Volkswagen AG and Voith Turbo Marine. MEGWARE has also assembled a supercomputer for the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. This compute cluster with 772 CPU cores reaches a Linpack benchmark performance of 6,52 TeraFlop/s, and is ranked 192nd on the Top500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
“Our agreement with MEGWARE is an important step for SiCortex,” said SiCortex CEO Dr. John Mucci. “Europe represents a significant market opportunity for us, and working with one of Germany’s leading systems integrators is the ideal introduction.”
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, anorder of magnitude less than the 250 watts used in a conventional cluster node. The SC5832 can perform six trillion operations per second in a cabinet that is less than onethird the size of conventional clusters.
About MEGWARE
Founded in 1990 in Chemnitz (Saxony/Germany), MEGWARE Computer GmbH focuses on a holistic IT system approach to the development, sale, and service of a range of High Performance Computers, specializing in cluster computing. To date, several hundred such clusters have been delivered to prominent educational and research facilities, and also to commercial enterprises in Germany and other countries in Europe. MEGWARE has developed hardware components and management tools for clusters and is in close partnership with international supercomputer manufacturers.
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/.
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