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Streaming Analytics at the Edge With CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline

By marketing@site-a.com

You Envision the Future

LAKE FOREST, CALIF., AUGUST 6, 2019 — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High Performance Computing and Big Data computing solutions today announced the launch of a new product. The ability to ingest, transform and analyze data at the edge is the new IT frontier. Data processing has become increasingly complicated for many organizations, and this rings particularly true for organizations that find themselves constantly dealing with large influxes of data. 

CyberRax

Data processing has become increasingly complicated for many organizations, and this rings particularly true for organizations that find themselves constantly dealing with large influxes of data. Not only can those influxes be time-consuming and difficult to manage, but more often than not, that data needs to be processed, analyzed and delivered to employees with real-time access. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t have the resources to do this and the solutions they implement in an attempt to get their data into the right hands often fall short.   

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Fortunately there is an answer.  NSA developers released an open source version of their “Niagrafiles” application to the Apache project and dubbed it “NiFi”. 

Organizations can now identify key patterns, compare against existing models and potentially solve problems before they even occur.  As with many successful open source projects, NiFi is now available as a commercially supported offering by Cloudera, called Cloudera Data Flow (CDF).  CDF includes all of the open source features of NiFi including data governance, integration with other tools including Cloudera’s HDP Data Platform, Apache Ranger for security, and Apache Kafka for streaming data.  

Our mission at PSSC Labs is to provide organizations with the equipment and means that they need in order to succeed. That’s why we created our purpose-built, high performance, truly redundant CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline solution (https://pssclabs.losangeles.dev.buckupstudio.com/solutions/streaming-analytics/).  Working with Cloudera engineers, PSSC Labs engineers the CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline with the latest in technology to scale for any organization’s streaming analytics needs.  Included in the solution is a three node redundant configuration with 16TB usable storage for Content Repo, 8 TB usable storage for Flowfile Rep, 8 TB usable storage for Provenance Repo and an additional 8 TB for other NiFi components.   CyberRax Data Flow Pipleine includes all of the enterprise features and functions necessary for production deployments at US Government Agencies as well as Fortune 5000 Corporations.  

CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline Key features include:  

  • Certified compatible with Cloudera Dataflow (Apache NiFi) 
  • Delivered with and without back end data platform 
  • Significant Capital Expenditure and Operating Expense reduction 
  • Truly turn-key deployment 
  • Manage & Secure Your Data 
  • Reduced time to deployment and value 

Our solutions have assisted in the prevention of many disasters by helping our clients better predict flooding, prevent wildfires, know when to perform maintenance on aircraft, and more.   

CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline is already being deployed at various Department of Defense departments and well as serious cybersecurity focused firms.  These organizations have combined their CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline with PSSC Labs’ CloudOOP Rax Enterprise Data Lake platform to create a powerful and highly scalable environment to not only process and ingest data at the edge but also store that data for additional analysis using Apache Spark for data science and machine learning.  

About PSSC Labs 

For technology powered visionaries with a passion for challenging the status quo, PSSC Labs is the answer for hand-crafted HPC and Big Data computing solutions that deliver relentless performance with the absolute lowest total cost of ownership.  

 We are true innovators offering high performance computing solutions to solve the world’s most demanding problems. For 25+ years, organizations of all sizes and from a variety of sectors rely on PSSC Labs’ computing systems. We are proud to support many departments within the United States government, Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses.  

All products are designed and built at the company’s headquarters in Lake Forest, California.

PSSC Labs and CyberSecurity Malaysia Team Up to Crunch Data and Crush Hackers

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National cybersecurity specialist agency selected PSSC Labs to combat cybersecurity threats

LAKE FOREST, CALIF., FEBRUARY 26, 2018 /PRWEB/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High Performance Computing and Big Data computing solutions, announced today it was selected by CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) to help facilitate, manage, securely store and access massive amounts of cyber forensic data by building a custom turn-key cluster server.

CyberSecurity Malaysia is the national cybersecurity specialist agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). The role of CSM is to provide specialized cybersecurity services that contribute towards a bigger national objective of preventing or minimizing disruptions to critical information infrastructure in order to protect the public, the economy and government services. CSM receives about 10,000 security incident reports each year. Recently, CSM has seen a growing number of cyber-incidents with fraud topping the list followed by intrusion, malicious codes and cyber-harassment. As of October 2017, CSM received 3,240 reported incidents on fraud; 1,781 on intrusion; 694 on malicious codes and 499 on cyber-harassment.

To facilitate, manage, securely store and access massive amounts of cyber-forensic data, CSM required an infrastructure upgrade. CSM security experts embarked on a worldwide hunt for a vendor partner and selected PSSC Labs to custom build a turn-key cluster server that could be delivered to Malaysia. With over 25 years of experience providing the most cutting edge HPC and Big Data computing solutions to customers including the US Army, NASA and other major US research universities such as Harvard, PSSC Labs had the precise expertise that CSM was looking for.

PSSC Labs engineers custom-built a CloudOOP Rax Cluster server solution to meet CSM’s requirements of a powerful ready-to-deploy system that would not be an energy drain. The tightly integrated CloudOOP Rax solution provides superior performance with a framework that enables a single view of diverse streams of security data, allowing CSM to rapidly detect and respond to emerging threats.

The complete system included ten PSSC Labs CloudOOP 12000 Data Nodes and three CloudSeek Name Nodes. All the necessary rack, 10GigE network switch and power connections were preconfigured and included. They also installed Hortonworks HDP Data Platform and Apache Metron which were preconfigured for the CSM team. Apache Metron is a streaming analytics application that makes it faster and easier for security operations personnel to do their job. It is a next generation SOC (security operations center) data analytics and response application that integrates a variety of open source big data technologies into a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Total storage capacity of the system is 150 terabytes.

By using PSSC Labs hardware and system, CSM hopes to have high processing performance for central analysis in analyzing multiple incident images. CSM will also utilize the hardware to analyze and visualize large amounts of data for malware analytics where the size of data can be as big as 100gb/year and increasing, said CyberSecurity Malaysia’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Solahuddin Shamsuddin. “The PSSC Labs system will act as the platform for data processing and analytics as well as visualization. The visualization will be fed to stakeholders with dashboard access.”

To ensure the installation was flawless, CSM organized a Strategic Training and Working Visit to PSSC Labs in the fall of 2017. The participants were from the Digital Forensic Department in CyberSecurity Malaysia. They were trained on Big Data platform and technology by PSSC Labs engineers.

The PSSC Labs platform will also provide sufficient resources for CSM to incorporate AI into its offerings. Artificial intelligence will enable CSM to predict cyberattacks before they happen by detecting changes or anomalies. The country has a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, and AI will act as a “force multiplier” to enable fewer analysts to identify, thwart and counter a far greater number of attacks. It will also provide analysts with “situational awareness” by identifying and classifying any backend limitations a system may have. Artificial intelligence enables a “proactive defense”, constantly monitoring for vulnerabilities that could be exploited for malicious purposes.

About PSSC Labs 

For technology powered visionaries with a passion for challenging the status quo, PSSC Labs is the answer for hand-crafted HPC and Big Data computing solutions that deliver relentless performance with the absolute lowest total cost of ownership.  

 We are true innovators offering high performance computing solutions to solve the world’s most demanding problems. For 25+ years, organizations of all sizes and from a variety of sectors rely on PSSC Labs’ computing systems. We are proud to support many departments within the United States government, Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses.  

All products are designed and built at the company’s headquarters in Lake Forest, California.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/02/prweb15236866.htm

 

PSSC Labs Announces Hadoop Big Data Servers with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

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Custom-built and certified compatible with leading Hadoop distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks & MapR

LAKE FOREST, CALIF., JANUARY 31, 2018 /PRWEB/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced a new version of its CloudOOP 12000 cluster server integrated with Intel’s newest Xeon® Scalable Processors to deliver breakthrough performance for handling big data tasks such as real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing.

In additional to advanced architecture, the Intel new processors feature a rich suite of platform and security innovations for enhanced application performance including Intel AVX-512, Intel Mesh Architecture, Intel QuickAssist, Intel Optane SSDs and Intel Omni-Path Fabric.

The CloudOOP 12000 is the only server specifically designed for Hadoop, Kafka, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT). It offers 2x the density and up to 35% lower power draw than traditional manufacturers, as well as a near 50% increase in data throughput performance. Reducing power draw means a lower datacenter footprint and a significantly reduced total cost of ownership with an over 90% efficiency rating.

Organizations can custom build CloudOOP 12000 servers from the company’s new EZ System Configurator https://www.site-a.com/servers/big-data-servers/#chassis. Every system is ready-to-run on delivery and comes with all necessary hardware, software, networking, integrations, as well as support from PSSC Lab’s US-based team of experienced engineers. Each CloudOOP 12000 is also customized with the Hadoop distribution of choice.

CloudOOP 12000 big data servers feature: 

  • Support for Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. Intel Xeon Scalable Processors deliver an overall performance increase up to 1.65x from the previous generation, and up to 5x OLTP warehouse workloads versus the current install base.
  • OS installed on separate SSD hard drive(s) to increase system speed, reliability and usability support for Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions, as well as Microsoft Windows
  • Supports up to 512GB DDR memory modules featuring Error Correcting (ECC) support that automatically detects and corrects memory errors
  • Redundant 90%+ Energy Efficient Power Supplies
  • Redundant RAID 1 Mirror Operating System Hard Drives
  • Up to 144TB storage with support for SSD, SAS and SATAIII
  • Configurable to RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD
  • Dual GigE network bandwidth comes standard, with 10GigE, 40GigE, 100GigE and Infiniband network connectivity possible. Also, optional network integration with Intel OmniPath Architecture.

“Our CloudOOP 12000 series not only reduces both capital expenditure and operating expenses but offers superior data I/O performance for real-time processing,” said Alex Lesser, Executive Vice President of PSSC Labs. “It’s the perfect pre-configured server for a variety of applications across government, academic and commercial environments including Design & Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Science, Financial Services and Machine/Deep Learning.”

Every PSSC Labs server and cluster comes with three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional support available) with all support provided by a US-based team of experienced engineers. Pricing for a CloudOOP 12000 with Intel Xeon Scalable processors start at only $2,500.

PSSC Labs services with every custom-build include: 

  • Operating system installation
  • Storage partitioning and configuration (JBOD or RAID)
  • Net Connect integration service for easy network boot
  • BIOS customization
  • Power and cooling consultation prior to delivery
  • Mac address recording and reporting
  • Node name labeling
  • Rack ‘n Roll Services Available for Turn-Key Installation

 Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15135188.htm

PSSC Labs to Exhibit HPC Clusters for Weather Modeling and Analyzing Wildfire Fuel Loads at American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

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High Performance Computing manufacturer teams with Atmospheric Data Solutions to provide turn-key supercomputer solutions for the AMS community

LAKE FOREST, CALIF., JANUARY 06, 2018 /PRWEB/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High Performance Computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, today announced it will showcase a series of High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions that are custom-built for weather modeling and wildfire analysis at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (AMS) January 7-11, 2018 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas in Booth #736 in the Main Hall.

This year, the 2018 AMS Annual Meeting theme is “Transforming Communication in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise Focusing on Challenges Facing Our Sciences.” The theme aims to enhance the scientific conference with a focus on communication science and practice to ensure the strengthened success of the enterprise in the future.

Weather research is rapidly advancing aided by the technological evolution of High Performance Computing servers. PSSC Labs delivers hand-crafted HPC and big data computing solutions based on its PowerWulf HPC cluster that are customized for the AMS community. PowerWulf HPC Clusters include pre-configured and fully validated blocks with the latest Intel HPC technology and all the necessary hardware, network settings, and cluster management software prior to shipping. Such solutions are paramount for dependable information in forecasting and air quality assessments for environmental analysts. Through the use of powerful, turn-key HPC cluster solutions for weather modeling solutions, climate scientists are able to combat wild fires such as the ones seen recently in Southern California.

PSSC Labs offers a complete hardware/software solution through its partnership with Atmospheric Data Solutions, LLC (ADS) to deliver powerful and customized supercomputing solutions for ADS’ weather modeling products. The weather modeling solutions that ADS creates include high impact weather forecast guidance products, tailored regional wildfire forecast guidance products, and utility load and outage forecasts – all requiring analysis of a large quantity of data that demands high performance computing to maximize accuracy and maximize the number of times models can be run daily.

PSSC Labs PowerWulf HPC Cluster offers a reliable, flexible, high performance computing platform for a variety of applications in the following verticals besides meteorological sciences including: Design & Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Science, Financial Services and Machine/Deep Learning.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15058987.htm

PSSC Labs Launches PowerWulf HPC Clusters With Pre-Configured Intel Data Center Blocks

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Built with Intel Scalable CPUs and Omni-Path to address cloud, HPC and business critical workloads

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced its PowerWulf HPC clusters are now available with Intel’s new Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel’s Omni-Path HPC Fabric to deliver the performance needed to tackle cutting edge computing tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing. 

PowerWulf clusters are built with Intel’s Data Center Blocks to ensure a truly turnkey solution that addresses customer integration challenges. Today’s customer datacenters require unique server solutions that run complex, business-critical workloads. Intel Data Center Blocks configurations are purpose-built with all-Intel technology, optimized to address the needs of specific market segments. These fully validated blocks deliver performance, reliability and quality for solutions customer want and can trust to handle their demanding cloud, HPC, and business critical workloads.

PSSC Labs PowerWulf HPC Clusters are available as config-to-order (CTO) to meet the specific needs of a customer. Key features of these solutions include:

  • Pre-configured and fully validated blocks with the latest Intel HPC technology
  • Powered by the Intel Xeon processor Scalable family, delivers an overall performance increase up to 1.65x compared to the previous generation, and up to 5x Online Transaction Processing warehouse workloads versus the current install base.
  • 2 operating system options to choose: RedHat, SUSE, and CentOS Linux
  • Multiple models with different support options
  • Intel Fabric Suite 10.5.1, Lustre 2.10
  • Intel Omni-Path Host Fabric Interface (Intel OP HFI) Adapter 100 Series and FDR/EDR InfiniBand Fabric
  • Intel Datacenter SATA and NVMe Solid State Drives (SSD)

“Intel’s integrated and fully-validated Data Center Blocks enables PSSC Labs to deliver more efficient and turnkey approach and reduce time to market, complexity and the costs of system design, validation and integration,” said Alex Lesser, EVP of PSSC Labs. “Partnering with Intel allows us to offer our customers the latest hardware options in our line of custom turn-key PowerWulf HPC clusters for a variety of applications across government, academic and commercial environments.”

PowerWulf HPC clusters also feature PSSC Labs CBeST Cluster Management Toolkit (Complete Beowulf Software Toolkit) to deliver a preconfigured solution with all the necessary hardware, network settings and cluster management software prior to shipping. With its component structure, CBeST is the most flexible cluster management software package available.

Every PowerWulf HPC Cluster includes a three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available) with all support provided by PSSC Labs US-based team of engineers. PSSC Labs is an Intel HPC Data Center Specialist and has been a Platinum Provider with Intel since 2009. For more information see https://www.site-a.com/solutions/hpc-cluster/

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pssc-labs-launches-powerwulf-hpc-clusters-with-pre-configured-intel-data-center-blocks-300569232.html

PSSC Labs Announces Big Data Clusters with Certification for Apache Metron

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Leveraging Hortonwork Data Platform, CloudOOP Rax delivers turn-key, ready to use platform for deployment of cybersecurity solutions

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and big data computing solutions, today announced it has certified its CloudOOP Rax cluster for compatibility with Apache Metron.  Leveraging the Hortonworks Data Platform, PSSC Labs can now deliver its signature turnkey, high performance, cost effective CloudOOP Rax platform, preconfigured with Apache Metron. With this new certification, PSSC Labs has created a platform ideal for deployment of cybersecurity solutions.

“Cybersecurity is one of the most important applications for big data platforms, with Apache Metron being a standout framework for cybersecurity solutions,” said Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs. “At PSSC Labs, we’ve deployed over 100 petabytes of Hadoop infrastructure, and understand that open source packages like Apache Metron are not easy to configure or get working. By certifying our CloudOOP Rax Clusters for Apache Metron via the Hortonworks Data Platform, we can do both for our customers, delivering a cybersecurity ready big data cluster primed for use on arrival.” 

Benefits of Apache Metron

Apache Metron allows for real-time big data enabled cybersecurity analytics with a tightly integrated solution that provides superior performance. The framework enables a single view of diverse streams of security data, allowing cybersecurity solutions to rapidly detect and respond to emerging threats. The streaming analytics application allows for greater speed, processing and scalability, making it an ideal next-gen solution of security operations centers to perform data analytics and incidence response. It integrates with a variety of open source big data technologies, serving as a centralized tool for monitoring and analysis. 

Built for Big Data and Cybersecurity

PSSC Lab’s CloudOOP Rax is a complete, turn-key Hadoop cluster that is ready to run on delivery. The big data cluster comes with all necessary hardware, software, networking, integrations, as well as support from PSSC Lab’s US-based team of experienced engineers. Each CloudOOP Rax Cluster is customized with the Hadoop distribution of choice, including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR. Features include:

  • Hardware with the latest Intel Xeon processor, high speed network backplane
  • CentOS Linux Operating System
  • Optional Hortonworks Data Platform Distribution preconfigured with Apache Metron or Apache Spot cybersecurity package
  • Scalable from 100TB to 10+PB
  • 2x the density and 35% lower power draw for the lowest total cost of ownership on the market

Every CloudOOP Rax Cluster includes a three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available) with all support provided by our US-based team of experienced engineers. For more information visit https://www.site-a.com/solutions/big-data-cluster/

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pssc-labs-announces-big-data-clusters-with-certification-for-apache-metron-300558581.html