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RSC Tornado RSC Group has demonstrated an update of its RSC Tornado architecture. Supporting the new Intel Xeon E5 processor and Intel server boards, RSC Tornado is the first energy-efficient super-dense blade solution with liquid cooling. The complete hardware and optimised software stack were showcased by RSC Group as a part of official launch of the Intel Xeon E5- 2600 processor series for servers and data centres in Russia and CIS countries.
At a technology showcase during an Intel event in Moscow, RSC Group’s specialists demonstrated a fully functional super-dense solution based on RSC Tornado architecture. This represented a rack with
liquid-cooled blade servers based on Intel S2600JF server boards, with two of the latest Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors per board (eight computing cores with the clock speed of 2.9 GHz and 20MB of cache memory per chip and 135W thermal design power). In Turbo Boost mode, the Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors used in the new solution stably operate at a higher clock speed of 3.3 GHz – 400 MHz higher than the nominal clock speed – due to the liquid cooling.
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Lustre 2.2
With a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of less than 1.06, a maximum of 5.7 per cent of the consumed energy will be used for cooling the system.
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Penguin Computing’s Intel-based product portfolio
Penguin Computing has announced the immediate availability of the company’s new product portfolio that is entirely based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family. The new line-up includes the Relion series rack-mounted servers, Icebreaker series storage solutions and Niveus series workstations. The new products are designed
to enable technical and scientific users to achieve a higher simulation throughput. Compared to the previous generation of CPUs, the performance benefits of the new processor line include AVX instructions for higher computational throughput, support for the third generation PCI-E architecture for higher I/O bandwidth,
level three cache of up to 20MB, support for higher memory speeds and additional memory controller for increased memory bandwidth. The company has been providing early access to this new processor architecture through its public HPC cloud offering, Penguin On Demand (POD).
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Whamcloud has announced the availability of Lustre 2.2, the first of the company’s releases to be partially funded by financial support from OpenSFS, the North American Lustre community group. Features include improved support for mmap and better performance using checksums, increased performance accessing object attributes (file sizes/ xtime), imperative recovery, and better performance when multiple processes access the same directory in parallel. ‘Collaboration around Lustre development has never been better,’ commented Norman Morse, CEO of OpenSFS. ‘The collaborative community support model led by the open source file system community with important leadership and contributions by Whamcloud has enabled Lustre to not only meet end user requirements but also follow a strict roadmap schedule. Lustre 2.2 is a great example of what open source technology can accomplish. Congratulations to all community contributors.’
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Liquid-cooled cabinets UK-based liquid cooling specialist Iceotope has launched what it describes as ‘free cooling for ICT, anywhere’ at the Cebit trade event in Hanover, Germany. The company’s unique system encapsulates all electronics in a sealed unit containing 3M’s Novec as the inert chemical coolant. Heat is transferred away from the electronics to a sealed low pressure gravity fed sub system where it can be passively cooled or repurposed to centrally heat
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or provide hot water to other buildings or facilities.
Eliminating the need for fans, the power consumed at server level is reduced, addressing both the energy costs and environmental footprint of data centres and HPC facilities. Iceotope reports that this approach can save 97 per cent of the energy cost of cooling and more than 75 per cent of the mechanical costs of such facilities.
www.iceotope.com
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In-memory analytics company Kognitio will base the pricing of its Analytical Platform solely on the amount of memory employed by the servers hosting the platform. The Kognitio Analytical Platform utilises the performance of data held in memory to satisfy queries quickly. Data that is instantly needed by systems can stay in memory, while the remaining data can stay on cost-effective
standard mechanical hard disks. The Massively Parallel
Processing (MPP) scale-out architecture enables platforms to be built with memory sizes ranging from half a terabyte to hundreds of terabytes. Customers are free to attach as much disk as they like to these systems, insulating them against increasing software license costs.
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