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PSSC Labs Cumulus Private Cloud Server Helps Companies Take Back Control (and Security) from the Cloud

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End of year capital expenditures provide an attractive opportunity for tax write offs that cloud services don’t qualify for

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and big data computing solutions, has developed a complete private cloud solution that can be customized for enterprises to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership without compromising performance. The timing is perfect for companies looking to maximize their end of year tax write offs through capital expenditures, which cloud services like Amazon Web Services don’t qualify for.

The PSSC Labs Cumulus Private Cloud includes all the necessary compute, storage and networking resources packed into a solution that is ready to run on delivery. Cumulus Private Clouds offers support for leading cloud software platforms including Openstock, Mesos, Docker, Kubernetes, Joyent and Rancher and can be deployed in any custom configuration worldwide.

Today’s companies are often faced with the complex decision of whether to use public cloud resources or build and deploy their own IT infrastructure. For organizations in search of an enterprise solution with improved performance, scalability and cost efficiency, the Cumulus Private Cloud offers an array of attractive advantages including the ability to garner capital equipment tax write offs, something which can save money over using a public cloud.

“Cloud computing has become an increasingly popular choice for many organizations – though not always the right choice,” said Lawrence J. Lesser, founder and Chief Technology Officer for PSSC Labs. “In many ways, public cloud usage for services like AWS is considered the ‘easy button’ that hides many downsides and risks. IT departments should consider all options that factor in any hidden costs that the cloud presents.”

Cloud computing can present many drawbacks that often come back to haunt users, such as skyrocketing fees, poor performance and security concerns. The decision between using a public cloud versus owning your own infrastructure is not so different than deciding between renting and a buying a home.  It is a choice between controlling your own environment versus living within someone else’s domain.

“Because the Cumulus Private Cloud can be easily configured to the company’s precise requirements and to suit the deployment needs of any application, many IT departments are now choosing to forgo the public cloud option entirely,” said Lesser.

Cumulus Private Cloud’s advanced features include:

  • Customized to specific needs and budget. Customers can select from a range of processors, memory, OS storage and network bandwidth
  • Lowest TCO compared to other manufacturers
  • 2x the density
  • 35% lower power draw without compromising performance
  • Easily scale computer and storage capacity
  • Remote management interface
  • Network bandwidth options include 10GigE and 100GigE+ with 40GigE, 100GigE and Infiniband network connectivity possible
  • Compatible with leading virtualization platforms including VMWare, KVM and Citrix
  • Ideal platform for Docker containers and Rancher as well as data center OS’s including Mesos and Joyent.
  • Increased rack density saving significant space while optimizing network connectivity

Improved Performance

One of the biggest names in cloud computing is Amazon EC2. It alleges cost savings, using a “pay for what you use” pricing model, security, control, and greater flexibility for deployment. However, a lot of these promises don’t hold up. The virtual cores used in cloud computing can’t offer the same application performance level as real cores, and because Amazon’s servers have dispersed locations, its users often experience latency issues – the solution for which costs more money, according to PSSC Labs. For industries such as life sciences that have high computing demands, a private cloud is a better option.

Improved Security

For Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, security can be automatically affected by anything that happens to their cloud provider.  Anyone using a public or shared cloud can experience a data breach and information loss through no fault of their own. This potential security loophole makes public clouds a concern for enterprises running mission-critical applications with high-availability and compliance or regulatory requirements. Because private clouds are in-house solutions, the threat of another company accidentally gaining access to your data center by accident is eliminated entirely.

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pssc-labs-cumulus-private-cloud-server-helps-companies-take-back-control-and-security-from-the-cloud-300555352.html

PSSC Labs Named a 10 Best Hadoop Solution Provider Companies to Watch

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Providers of custom turnkey platforms built specifically for Hadoop recognized in leading industry magazine

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct 18, 2017 /PRWEB/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it has been named to Insights Success Magazine’s 10 Best Hadoop Solution Provider Companies to Watch. Providing industry leading server platforms engineered specifically for Hadoop, PSSC Labs is a leader in providing turn-key solutions for enterprise Big Data needs.

Hadoop is a constantly evolving and expanding ecosystem that is disrupting the traditional storage and analytics platforms with more flexibility, speed, and reliability – creating an ideal, low cost, and scalable solution for today’s enterprise market. PSSC Labs’ exceptional record of offering the most powerful Hadoop solutions to its customers around the world has earned the company a place on this year’s Best Hadoop Solution Providers list. Editors at Insight Success Magazine analyze companies large and small to find the most unique and disruptive Hadoop solution providers on the market, choosing PSSC Labs as one of its standouts. To view the complete profile visit http://www.insightssuccess.com/pssc-labs-delivering-hand-crafted-hpc-extraordinary-big-data-computing-solutions/.

Designed for Hadoop

PSSC Labs has deployed over 100 petabytes of Hadoop infrastructure, including small POC clusters to production environments exceeding 10 PB. PSSC Labs’ CloudOOP Big Data Server Line is ideal for organizations looking for Hadoop solutions, and ideal for numerous industries including Ad Tech, Healthcare, Telecom, Media & Entertainment, and Cybersecurity. Designed specifically for Hadoop, Kafka, Big Data and edge computing with IOT devices and sensors, the CloudOOP line is engineered for faster data ingestion and processing.

Proven compatible with leading data platforms including Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR, the line offers enterprises a platform that will significantly lower both capital expenditure and operating expenses while achieving higher data throughput performance. Utilizing PSSC Labs’ specialized server design and unique, customized solutions, the CloudOOP line delivers high performance, high density, flexibility and scalability while reducing overall footprint and power usage. Offering 2x the density, 35% reduction in power use and up to 50% increase in data throughput, the CloudOOP line allows companies to scale their infrastructure while reducing the need for additional network, rack and power components – reducing total cost of ownership.

All CloudOOP server configurations receive service and support from PSSC Labs’ US-based, expert in-house engineers. For more information and configuration options see https://www.site-a.com/servers/big-data-servers/

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PSSC Labs Partners with Biosoft Integrators to Debut Specialized Genetic Research Cluster at ASHG 2017

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High functioning PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster provides unique turn-key solution for genetic research

LAKE FOREST, Calif., October 12, 2017 /PRWeb/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it will be showcasing its PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster at ASHG 2017. PSSC Labs will be on the main exhibition floor at booth #830.

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide. With nearly 8,000 members, the ASHG gathers researchers, academicians, clinicians, laboratory practice professionals, genetic counselors, and others who have a special interest in the field of human genetics. Their annual meeting, attended by over 6,000 people yearly, advances genetic research and education as well as attracting displays of cutting edge service and support for the genetic research community.

PSSC Labs has partnered with Biosoft Integrators (BSI) to create a superior, complete turn-key hardware and software platform designed specifically for genetic research, which it will debut at this year’s ASHG meeting. The PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster is a plug-and-play supercomputing solution proven compatible with all leading sequencing platforms.

Biosoft Integrators (BSI) works with researchers around the world to integrate laboratory technology platforms. With extensive experience in laboratory settings, BSI provides researchers with greater efficiency and management by providing tools which unify the laboratory and laboratory informatics, eliminating the need to manually communicate work and data between different software and equipment. Combine their deep research knowledge with PSSC’s superior customizable hardware, the resulting PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster provides an unprecedented level of integration and support. With a fully customizable suite of hardware and software, and available onsite installation and training, it is the simplest way for research scientist to set up or expand their research computing ability.

PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster Features: 

  • Latest Intel Xeon processors
  • High Memory Amounts for Large Data Sets
  • High Performance Network Backplane providing up to 100 Gbps speeds
  • Large Storage Capabilities Ranging from 20TB to Multiple Petabytes.

“Our partnership with PSSC Labs over the last 6 years has allowed us to provide the fastest and most reliable computing solutions to our customers across the globe,” said Stu Shannon Co- Founder and COO of BSI. “PSSC’s expertise in High Performance Computing components and server architecture allowed us to configure a best in class turn-key solution for our worldwide customer base to support rapid time to answer, high availability and complete customer satisfaction.”

Every PowerWulf Bio Titanium Cluster includes a three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available) with all support provided by a US based team of experienced engineers. For more information https://www.site-a.com/solutions/hpc-cluster/

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/10/prweb14789255.htm

Biosoft Integrates Lab Equipment for Genetics Research with Help from PSSC Labs

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High functioning PowerWulf Clusters working to power research projects in remote locations all over the world

LAKE FOREST, Calif., September 21, 2017 /PRWeb/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data computing solutions, today announced its work with Biosoft Integrators to provide powerful, turn-key HPC Cluster solutions for researchers in the biotech and genetic research fields.

Biosoft Integrators (BSI) works with researchers around the world to integrate laboratory technology platforms. With extensive experience in laboratory settings, the company’s founders realized that often equipment and software are poorly integrated and lack the functionality to work with each other, requiring researchers to manually transfer work and data between software and equipment. BSI provides researchers with greater efficiency and management by providing tools which unify the laboratory and laboratory informatics. BSI combines knowledge, experience and technology platforms to the biotechnology marketplace including the manually tracked lab to the fully automated and integrated consumer genomics facility.

PSSC Labs will work with BSI to create truly, turn-key high performance computing (HPC) clusters, servers and storage solutions. PSSC Labs has already delivered several hundred computing platforms for worldwide genomics and bioinformatics research. Utilizing the PowerWulf HPC Cluster as a base solution platform, PSSC Labs and BSI can customize individual components for a specific end user’s research goals.

PowerWulf HPC Clusters are proven compatible with several genomics research platforms including both Illumina® and Pacific Biosciences®. Each solution includes the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, high performance memory, advanced storage arrays and fast networking topology. The PoweWulf HPC Clusters also include PSSC Labs CBeST Cluster Management Toolkit to help researchers easily manage, monitor, maintain and upgrade their clusters.

“PSSC Labs was willing to work with us to design each HPC systems, even allowing our software engineers to work directly with personnel at their production facility to ensure each HPC platform was built to work with each individual research project. “said Stu Shannon Co- Founder and COO of BSI. “The performance and reliability of PSSC Labs’ products are amazing. Many of our clients are conducting research in remote regions in southeast Asia, where repairs to equipment is extremely difficult to perform, and since partnering with PSSC Labs’ the HPC systems have required little more than the occasional hard drive replacement.”

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

Every PowerWulf HPC Cluster includes a three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available) with all support provided by their US based team of experienced engineers. Prices for a custom built PowerWulf HPC Cluster solution start at $20,000. For more information see https://www.site-a.com/solutions/hpc-cluster/

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/09/prweb14726007.htm

Optoro Ends Reliance on Public Cloud with the Help of PSSC Labs

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Enterprise CloudOOP 12000 server platform helps reduce cost nearly 50% compared to using Amazon Web Services (AWS) while increasing performance, usability, and scalability

LAKE FOREST, Calif., August 4, 2017 /PRWeb/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it has successfully helped reverse logistics platform Optoro migrate off Amazon Web Services (AWS) and create its own in-house infrastructure.

Optoro is the world’s leading reverse logistics platform, offering a superior end-to-end reverse logistics solution that helps retailers process, manage, and sell their returned and excess inventory. Optoro’s software platform helps retailers optimize the management of returned and excess inventory in a more efficient and cost-effective way, maximizing recovery value, enabling consumers to get great deals, and reducing environmental waste. Founded in 2010, Optoro has seen phenomenal growth as ecommerce continues to rise, and has therefore seen a steady rise in data infrastructure needs.

PSSC Labs worked with Optoro to completely build a self-hosted infrastructure from the ground up, emphasizing flexibility and maintainability, utilizing its CloudOOP 12000 Enterprise Big Data server platform connected via a 10 GigE network backbone. Performance benefits were maximized using only Flash SSD hard drives from Micron® and the latest Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 series processors.

PSSC Labs also worked extensively with Optoro to customize the solution so that they could continue running on an API infrastructure with a Joyent Triton platform. “Unlike other providers, PSSC Labs provided the flexibility and knowledge needed to deliver Optoro with hardware that maximized performance without upselling of unnecessary upgrades” said Zach Dunn, Optoro’s Director of DevOps. “PSSC Labs delivered a complete solution with all necessary rack, power connection and out of band management tightly integrated into a simple-to-deploy datacenter environment.”

Upon the completion of the migration, Optoro saw an immediate increase in the consistency and stability of performance as well as increase to storage capacity compared to AWS. The new self-hosted solution immediately halved Optoro’s costs as well as greatly increasing performance, and private infrastructure has also resulted in better visibility, with a clearer breakdown of usage for proper reporting and monitoring. Detailed information on Optoro’s migration from AWS will be available as a case study at https://www.site-a.com/.

The CloudOOP12000 is PSSC Lab’s unique platform for enterprise users. 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. All CloudOOP 12000 server configurations receive service and support from PSSC Lab’s US based, expert in house engineers. Prices for a custom CloudOOP 12000 server start at $5000. For more information see https://pssclabs.losangeles.dev.buckupstudio.com/products/big-data-servers/.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/08/prweb14625720.htm

PSSC Labs Integrates Latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processors in its HPC Solutions

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Custom, high performance PowerServe Servers and PowerWulf Clusters now with next gen processing power available

LAKE FOREST, Calif., August 07, 2017 /PRWEB/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it now offers integration of Intel’s new Xeon® Scalable Processors in its PowerServe line of HPC servers and PowerWulf line of HPC clusters. The integration provides PSSC Labs customers with breakthrough technology, offering performance capable of handling cutting edge computing tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing.

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

PSSC Labs’ PowerServe and PowerWulf HPC solutions offer reliable, flexible, high performance computing solutions for a variety of applications across government, academic, and commercial environments including: Design & Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Science, Financial Services and Machine/Deep Learning.

“PSSC Labs endeavors to offer our customers the latest and best hardware options in our line of custom turn-key HPC servers and clusters,” said Alex Lesser, Executive Vice President of PSSC Labs. “The new Intel® Xeon® processors are a major advancement for enhanced performance on resource hungry computing tasks and we are happy to make this technology available to our customers.”

Every PowerWulf Server and PowerServe Cluster come with a three-year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available) with all support provided by a US-based team of experienced engineers. Configurations start at $2,495.

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Features:

Advanced Architecture: new core microarchitecture, new on-die interconnects and memory controllers means optimized performance, reliability, security and manageability. The processor also offers better efficiency and lower energy costs as well as space efficiency.

Performance: The Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors deliver an overall performance increase up to 1.65x versus the previous generation, and up to 5x OLTP warehouse workloads versus the current install base.

Scalability: Up to 28 cores and up to 6 terabytes of system memory, and can scale to support 2-socket – 8-socket systems.

Agility: Optimized computing, network, and storage performance on premise, through a network, or in the cloud. Optional network integration with Intel OmniPath Architecture.

Security: 3.1x performance improvement in cryptography performance compared to the previous generation. Application can now run with less than 1% overhead with data-at-rest encryption turned on. Intel Key Protection Technology delivers enhanced protection to security key attacks.

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. All products are designed and built at the company’s headquarters in Lake Forest, California. For more information, 949-380-7288, https://www.site-a.com, sales@site-a.com.

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