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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 02, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 22
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Breaking News - Platforms:
Atipa Launches AMD Opteron Processor-Based 64-Bit Cluster
Atipa Technologies announced that it will offer its new Talladega-64 computer
systems to the scientific and business communities. Atipa’s Talladega-64
supports the AMD Opteron processor.
For many years, Atipa Technologies has deployed world-class Beowulf-class
supercomputers and high-performance computing solutions in almost every major
university, research laboratory and Fortune 500 Company in the U.S. Now, Atipa
will offer 64-bit x86 systems that will raise the bar in commodity computing.
The Talladega-64 series will spearhead this new standard of commodity
computing products. The new AMD Opteron processor-based systems will be built
according to the quality standards of its ISO-9002 certified manufacturing
facility.
Already, Atipa Technologies has seen an overwhelming demand for the new
Talladega-64 systems. "We are pleased that Advanced Micro Devices is working
directly with Atipa to provide a positive launch of this new technology,"
commented Bret Stouder, Director of Atipa technologies. "We believe the
Talladega-64 with AMD64 technology will be heavily accepted in the open source
community for both server and desktop applications."
Atipa’s first Talladega-64 system, a 33-node (66-processor) system has been
delivered to COLSA Corporation of Huntsville, AL for their continuing studies
of high-performance computing in support of their customer, the US Army
Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM). The COLSA project uses computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) for the analysis of hypersonic missile flight on high-end
supercomputers and supercluster systems. COLSA’s primary objective is to
provide the Army with enabling technology that will allow revolutionary
hypersonic concepts to be developed for both offensive and defensive missile
systems. As an added benefit, this technology will also reduce overall
supercomputing costs through the use of new cluster technology. The features
of the new AMD Opteron processor-based systems include:
- Simultaneous 32- and 64-bit high-performance computing
- HyperTransport technology designed to increase the communication speed
between integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and
networking and telecommunications equipment up to 48 times faster than some
existing technologies
- Integrated DDR memory controller which greatly increases bandwidth directly
available to the processor at significantly reduced latencies
"Atipa is gaining significant momentum in the scientific and business
computing communities and AMD is working cooperatively to help ensure that our
shared customers can reap the benefits of Atipa’s Talladega-64 servers based
on the AMD Opteron processor," said Ben Williams, director, AMD’s
Server/Workstation Business Segment. "AMD Opteron processors offer native
support for 32- and 64-bit computing and can dramatically boost system
performance for high-performance computing."
Atípa offers customers a single point of contact for delivering turnkey Linux-
based solutions, including software, hardware, appliances, support and
professional services. Atipa Technologies has a unique ability to provided
quality systems that meet ISO-Certified standards at a price that keeps its
solutions not only available for U.S. researches but, those World-wide.
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