[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft, Power.org Host Hack-a-thon II: Press Release 2 August 2007

[Announce List for all Terra Soft products (moderated)]

TERRA SOFT, POWER.ORG HOST CELL HACK-A-THON II

LOVELAND, Colorado - 2 August 2007 - Terra Soft Solutions is proud to announce 
Hack-a-thon II, to be held in Austin, Texas, September 22-25, two days prior 
to and then in conjunction with the Power Architecture Developer Conference.

In this 4 day event, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on 
workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment 
via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and Moab for job management. Hack-a-thon 
attendees will be invited to working hands-on with the cluster to test their 
own parallel and distributed code.

Tim Wilcox, Sales Engineer for Terra Soft describes this four day event as "a 
unique opportunity to work with a new kind of commodity cluster for 
development and testing of science and engineering applications for the Cell 
processor ... the end product readily migrating to the Mercury and IBM Cell 
systems for even higher performance. I am excited to learn how attendees of 
the first Hack-a-thon have grown in their Cell programming experience, and to 
welcome new faces."

Event participants will enjoy:

	 - Support from Mercury and RapidMind engineers who will
	   answer questions and assist with code development using
	   the Mercury MultiCore Plus Cell development libraries and 
	   RapidMind Cell compiler tools.

	 - Support from IBM engineers and researchers.

	 - Support from Terra Soft staff.

	 - Interactive peer-to-peer presentations and forums.

	 - As with the first Hack-a-thon, an inviting, creative, and 
	   open atmosphere.

	 - One free, raffled PS3. Must attend the Hack-a-thon and be
	   present to win.

	 - A discount voucher which reduces the cost of attending 
	   the Power Architecture Developer Conference.

Programmers and cluster users of all experience are welcome. Availability is 
limited due to the number of available Cell systems and facility 
accommodations, so please register soon.

	Hack-a-thon II
	www.hpc-consortium.net/events/200709/

	Power Architecture Developer Conference
	http://www.power.org/devcon/07


About the HPC Consortium
As featured on the cover of the August issue (#160) of Linux Journal, the HPC 
Consortium provides access to high performance Linux OS systems with an 
immediate focus on the Cell Broadband Engine found in the IBM, Mercury, and 
Sony products. The Consortium facilities are free to DoE and university 
laboratories and to commercial entities for a fee.

For more information, visit www.hpc-consortium.net


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
As the recognized leader in Linux for Power since 1999, Terra Soft provides 
turn-key, integrated solutions built upon IBM, Mercury, and Sony systems, 
board support packages for Power OEMs, and cross-architecture Linux 
applications for high performance computing. Terra Soft develops Yellow Dog 
Linux, the leading 32/64-bit Linux OS for the Power architecture, first to 
market with support for the Cell processor; the Y-HPC cross-architecture 
cluster construction suite; and Y-Bio, a cross-architecture gene sequence 
analysis suite for both workstations and clusters.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com


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