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Two
of World's Top 500 Supercomputers Powered by Rackable Systems
-- Rackable Systems Servers Deployed to Triple
Compute Power and Reduce Energy Costs
at University of Florida High Performance Computing Center --
MILPITAS, Calif., June 30, 2006 –
Rackable Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK), a leading provider of servers
and storage for large-scale data center deployments, today announced
that its cluster deployment at the University of Florida's High Performance
Computing (HPC) Center achieved a ranking of 280 in the latest TOP500
Supercomputing list, released this week at ISC2006. Based on the
High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, the TOP500 list highlights
the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world.
The University of Florida deployed highly dense, thermally efficient
rack-mount servers and storage from Rackable Systems in its HPC distributed-memory
cluster, as well as at the university's Tier-2 Center, a member of
a global grid computing infrastructure that supports the CMS (Compact
Muon Solenoid) experiment and other computationally intensive scientific
applications. The HPC Center's distributed-memory cluster earned an
impressive 2.974 Teraflops and 81.3% parallel efficiency using the
HPL benchmark to secure its spot as one of the world's fastest supercomputers.
"Powering our facility with Rackable Systems' DC-powered servers
ensures we maintain high levels of performance and reliability while
running our demanding scientific and engineering applications,"
said Dr. Charles Taylor, senior HPC systems engineer at the University
of Florida. "We packed three times the computational capacity
of our previous cluster in half the space without significantly increasing
our power consumption," he added.
The University of Florida's distributed memory cluster consists of
Rackable Systems Foundation Series 1U servers with over 800 AMD Opteron
275 processor cores. Additionally, an Infiniband interconnect fabric
consisting of channel adapters, switches and software from Cisco Systems
was used in conjunction with 40 Terabytes of OmniStor Fibre Channel
RAID storage from Rackable Systems.
"The TOP500 list serves as the benchmark of excellence among
the supercomputing community, and we are thrilled to be recognized
for powering the University of Florida's HPC Center," said Giovanni
Coglitore, founder and chief technology officer of Rackable Systems. "Increasing
computational requirements and power costs are driving demand for Rackable
Systems' unmatched thermal and power efficient servers for HPC environments."
Rackable Systems was also ranked 483 on the TOP500 list for its Emerald
cluster at AMD's Developer Center in Sunnyvale, California. The cluster
consists of 144 nodes, each leveraging two Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model
275 processors.
About Rackable Systems
Rackable Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK) is a provider of servers and
storage products for scale out data center deployments. The company's
servers are designed to provide benefits in the areas of density,
thermal efficiency, serviceability, power distribution and remote
management. Founded in 1999 and based in Milpitas, California, Rackable
Systems serves Internet, semiconductor design, enterprise software,
federal government, entertainment, financial services, oil and gas
exploration and biotechnology customers worldwide.
To learn more about Rackable Systems visit www.rackable.com.
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