[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Launches HPC Consortium: Press Release 10 January 2007

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TERRA SOFT LAUNCHES HPC CONSORTIUM

LOVELAND, Colorado - 10 January 2007 - In character with its record of 
innovation and community involvement, Terra Soft has founded a consortium of 
thought leaders dedicated to developing and disseminating best practice 
solutions for high productivity life science computing at the petascale 
level.

Glen Otero, Ph.D., Chief Scientist at Terra Soft Solutions explains, "The 
consortium's primary goal is developing, validating, and disseminating next 
generation tools and procedures for the creation, management, and growth of 
life science HPC ecosystems; software technologies that enable high 
throughput as well as high performance computing in the life sciences. We 
launched the consortium concept at SC2006 in Tampa Bay, Florida. It has since 
quickly gained momentum and an enthusiastic registrant list."

Initial participants include research professionals from the Department of 
Energy: Argonne, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratories; IBM, Mercury Computers, Tungsten Graphics, and several 
university researchers.

Much of the consortium's excitement revolves around the Cell-based clusters 
scheduled to be installed in Terra Soft's new 3000 sq-ft supercomputing 
center. Once the clusters are up and running, Terra Soft will assist the 
membership with cluster access. There are no membership fees or access 
charges for public and non-profit institutions such as the Department of 
Energy labs or university research departments. Commercial organizations will 
pay a reasonable access fee.

The consortium welcomes participation from the public, commercial, and 
non-profit sectors. Ideal candidates are actively engaged in computationally 
intensive research projects, the creation of new frameworks for HPC and life 
science research workflow integration, and application development for the 
Cell processor.

	Researchers who desire to gain access to consortium resources 
	are asked to submit a brief proposal for consideration:
	www.hpc-consortium.net/proposal.shtml

	For more information about the HPC Consortium:
	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.

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