SiCortex Signs European Reseller Agreement.Combination of Performance and Low Power Appealing to European Market MAYNARD, Mass. & CHEMNITZ, Germany -- SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux[R] 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 Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. . "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 (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. 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 Volkswagen AG (VW) Major German automobile manufacturer. It was founded in 1937 to mass-produce a low-priced “people's car” (Volkswagen). After World War II the company was rebuilt with Allied help, and within a decade it was producing half of West Germany's and Voith Turbo Marine. MEGWARE has also assembled a supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very for the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein’s theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational wave in Potsdam, Germany. This compute cluster with 772 CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. 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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. 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, an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. 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 one-third the size of conventional clusters. About SiCortex SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux cluster from the silicon up, is dedicated to the spread of open teraflop (unit) teraflop - 10^12 flops. Intel beat Hitachi to the record of 1.06 teraflops, on 04 Dec 1996, unofficially in Beverton, Oregon, using 7264 Pentium Pro chips. computing to a wide variety of users by providing "Teraflops from Milliwatts." Founded in 2003 by a respected team of computer industry executives, the company is backed by a number of top tier investors, including Chevron Technology Ventures, Flagship Ventures, JK&B Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, Prism VentureWorks and Hercules Technology Growth Capital. For more information visit http://www.sicortex.com/. 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 Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a journal for parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. . 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. http://www.megware.com |
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