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Weather Modeling at Atmospheric Data Solutions Gets a Boost with HPC Clusters from PSSC Labs

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High functioning PowerWulf Cluster will help weather modeling analysis that benefit public safety and ongoing research

LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JULY 06, 2017

PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data computing solutions, today announced its work with Atmospheric Data Solutions, LLC (ADS) to provide powerful, turn-key HPC Cluster solutions for its weather modeling solutions.

Atmospheric Data Solutions works with various public and private agencies, including major utility providers, to develop atmospheric science products that help mitigate and manage risk from severe weather and future climate change. The weather modeling solutions that ADS create 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 will work with ADS to provide powerful and customized supercomputing solutions for their weather modeling products, maximizing performance while staying within the budgetary constraints of each organization utilizing the end product. In addition to deploying PSSC Lab’s PowerWulf Clusters, ADS works with PSSC Labs to ensure the installation of custom modeling software on all HPC solutions, providing a truly turn key solution that is delivered ready to use.

The PowerWulf Cluster consists of 768 Intel Xeon Processor Cores, 4 Nvidia Tesla GPU Adapters, 2.1 TB System Memory, and 40TB+ Storage, all connected via Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnects, with additional configurations available. The PowerWulf Cluster includes PSSC Labs’ CBeST Cluster Management Toolkit to simplify the management, monitoring and maintenance. PSSC Labs will continue to support the HPC Cluster by providing operating system upgrades and continued system maintenance.

“PSSC Labs was accommodating every step of the way, whether it was finding the best hardware configuration within our client’s budget or allowing our own engineers on site to work on the clusters before delivery,” said Scott Capps, Principal and Founder of ADS. “The result is that our clients can now run models four times a day, as opposed to only twice a day with previous HPC set ups, with the results from the models delivered faster, as well.”

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/2017/07/prweb14478281.htm

PSSC Labs’ HPC Clusters Selected by University of Dayton for Atmospheric Optics Systems Research

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High functioning PowerWulf Cluster will serve as backbone of research on effects of atmospheric disturbances of laser systems

LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JUNE 20, 2017
PSSC Labs, a developer of custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data computing solutions, today announced its work with University of Dayton’s Intelligent Optics Laboratory (IOL) to provide a powerful, turn-key HPC Cluster solution for its atmospheric optics system research.

The IOL investigates the effects of atmospheric disturbances on various laser systems. These include turbulence and other phenomena that cause changes in the refractive index of air, including solar-induced thermal gradients, humidity, precipitation, and heating induced by the laser itself. To accomplish this research, the IOL relies on “Weather Research and Forecasting” (WRF) software paired with input of weather conditions from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or similar agencies to provide predictions of temperature, pressure, wind, humidity and related conditions for any area. The widely used software, developed by a cadre of international research teams, is enhanced by techniques developed at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and University of Dayton (UD) to derive very high resolution (“micro-scale”) estimations of these conditions. These calculated conditions are used as inputs to wave optics modeling software developed at UD to provide high-fidelity estimates of the effects of lasers propagated through real-world atmospheric conditions. It is critical that the calculation time is reduced as much as possible to accommodate the high number of input variables.

After receiving a DURIP (Defense University Research Instrumentation Program) grant, the University selected PSSC Labs to manufacture the HPC Cluster system. “It was important for us to select a vendor familiar with the systems requirements of this type of advanced research, that can simultaneously offer the processing power we need while staying within the budget permitted by our research grants,” said Morris Maynard, Sr. Software Engineer at UD. “PSSC offered the best combination of price, software and support available to help advance our research goals.” 

The PowerWulf Cluster consists of 768 Intel® Xeon® Processor Cores, 4 Nvidia® Tesla® GPU Adapters, 2.1 TB System Memory, and 40TB+ Storage, all connected via Mellanox® InfiniBand® Interconnects. The PowerWulf Cluster includes PSSC Labs’ CBeST Cluster Management Toolkit to simplify the management, monitoring and maintenance. PSSC Labs will continue to support the HPC Cluster by providing operating system upgrades in order to maintain compatibility with newer versions of software and continued system maintenance.

The new PowerWulf Cluster will effectively reduce the time it takes to run the WRF models from 1-3 weeks to just a few days. In addition, the University will be able to perform analysis locally without transmitting the gigabytes of output from WRF to another location. This improvement will allow the IOL to improve the modeling technique considerably, due to quick turnaround from modification of our code to the output. In addition, it will also improve confidence in the results as researchers are able to observe consistent trends when parameters for a scenario are adjusted across several runs – none of which would be practical on a smaller or slower system. 

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 our 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/2017/06/prweb14436049.htm

PSSC Labs Introduces Compact Enterprise Server Designed Specifically for Hadoop with up to 240 TB of Storage

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Upgrade of the CloudOOP Server Line offers better storage, performance for best value server solutions

LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JUNE 15, 2017
PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced the next generation of its CloudOOP Big Data Server Line – the CloudOOP 24000. The next iteration of the company’s industry leading CloudOOP 12000, the only Enterprise server platform engineered specifically for Hadoop, the CloudOOP 24000 offers double the capacity of the original in just 2U of rack space for up to 240 TB of storage capacity.

The CloudOOP Big Data Server Line is ideal for organizations new to Big Data or looking to expand their existing environment. Proven compatible with leading data platforms including Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR, the CloudOOP 24000 offers enterprises a platform that will significantly lower both capital expenditure and operating expenses while achieving higher data throughput performance. Utilizing this specialized server design, enterprises can now deploy 3 PByte+ storage within a single rack and reduce energy consumption up to 26% compared to other server manufacturers.

Designed specifically for Hadoop, Kafka, Big Data and edge computing with IOT devices and sensors, the CloudOOP 24000 is engineered for faster data ingestion and processing. Data analytics continues to push enterprises to find new technologies while at the same time work with smaller budget. The CloudOOP 24000 is the big data server platform that can satisfy both the data scientists and the budget minded executives.

“PSSC Labs continues to push the envelope of innovation in the Big Data server market place. As Big Data environments continue to grow, we understand our clients’ struggles with maintaining their CapEx and OpEx while still keeping up with the demands of their big data operations. At PSSC Labs, we continually work to deliver solutions that ensure the absolute high performance and lowest total cost of ownership for Enterprise Big Data computing,” said Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs.

CloudOOP 24000 Features Include

High Processing Power

  • The CloudOOP 24000 is powered by 2 x Intel Xeon E5 Series processors with up to 32 Processor Cores & up to 512GB high performance memory – get higher performance and reduced computing time.

Optimal Storage and Design

  • 24 x SSD, SATA III and / or SAS Hard Drives for Up to 240 TB of Storage Space. Unique 2U Rackmount Form Factor with Redundant Power Supply gives each hard drive its own independent path to the motherboard – removing unnecessary components that restrict data pathways and improving data ingestion & IO rates.

Connectivity Options

  • 10 GigE / 40 GigE / 100 GigE Network Connectivity Options available. Dual GigE network bandwidth comes standard, with addition network adapters from Intel, Mellanox, Solarflare and others available.

Operating System

  • Red Hat and CentOS Linux Certified Compatibility. Supports Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu & most other Linux distributions. OS installed on separate SSD hard drive(s) for increased system speed, reliability and usability as well as easy upgrade or repair of OS without interfering with Data drives

All CloudOOP 24000 server configurations service and support from PSSC Lab’s US based, expert in house engineers. Prices for a custom CloudOOP 24000 server start at $8,995.
For more information and configuration options see https://www.site-a.com/servers/big-data-servers/.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/06/prweb14424924.htm

PSSC Labs Announces Integration of Intel Omni-Path into HPC Solutions

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New fabric provides higher performance, lower cost and better support for current and future processors

LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) MAY 30, 2017

PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it has certified the Intel Omni-Path High Performance Fabric on its PowerWulf HPC solutions. Omni-Path is already a proven solution deployed and deployed in several high-performance computing instillations that are ranked in the Top 500 List. This additional option will continue to expand PSSC Lab’s wide array of high value, high performance HPC solutions.

For years, the Mellanox Infiniband has dominated high performance fabric in the parallel computing space. Intel’s Omni-Path architecture is a game changing technology that increases speed and performance, at a cost lower than the Mellanox counterpart. By integrating Intel Omni-Path Fabric into its PowerWulf solutions, PSSC Labs continues its mission of providing cutting edge solutions that push the boundaries of price and performance, while maintaining the absolute highest level of application support and system reliability.

“PSSC Labs is proud to offer our solutions with the latest Intel technology, providing our customers with the highest level of performance and stability,” said Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs. “PSSC Labs is an Intel HPC Data Center Specialist and has been a Platinum Provider with Intel since 2009, and our knowledge and experience is what allows us to incorporate the best in Intel Technology with our leading turn-key, custom HPC solutions.”

Benefits of the Omnipath Processor compared to Mellanox Infiniband include: 

  • Omni-Path clusters have up to 9% higher application performance than Infiniband
  • Omni-Path is up to 33% less expensive than Infiniband
  • Omni-Path is compatible with applications currently supported by Infiniband
  • Direct connection to the CPU in Future generations of Intel Xeon and Phi processors, thereby eliminating the cost and latency of a host bus adapter.
  • Higher bandwidth support with up to 100 Gbps

PSSC Lab’s PowerWulf HPC solutions 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 with Intel Omni-Path 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. Prices for a custom built PowerWulf solution start at $20,000. For more information see https://www.site-a.com/solutions/hpc-cluster/.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/05/prweb14375915.htm

PSSC Labs Announces “Greenest” New Eco Blade Server Platform for High Performance Computing

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Most energy efficient server on the market offers power, performance, and energy savings of up to 46% per server

LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced its new Eco Blade server platform, the most energy efficient high performance blade server on the market.

The Eco Blade is a unique server platform engineered specifically for high performance, high density computing environments – simultaneously increasing compute density while decreasing power use. Eco Blade offers two complete, independent servers within 1U of rack space. Each independent server supports up to 64 Intel® Xeon® processor cores and 1.0 TB of enterprise memory for a total of up to 128 Cores and 2 TB of memory per 1U.

There is no shared power supply or backplane, a unique design feature that translates to power savings of up to 46% on a per server comparison with servers of similar capabilities from leading brands. By lowering the power consumption of these servers, PSSC Labs is offering the greenest server of its kind on the market, translating to lower lifetime ownership costs for institutions that adopt the Eco Blade servers.

According to the EPA, volume servers are responsible for 68% of all electricity consumed by IT equipment in data centers in 2006. A study by the US government found that in 2014 US data centers consumed about 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, making up 2% of the country’s total energy consumption. Using over 90% energy efficient power supplies and combining them with power saving features, the Eco Blade servers result in significant savings in energy costs over the lifetime of the product. Along with the significant reduction in power used, the Eco Blade is built using 55% recyclable material, it a move that cements PSSC Labs’ commitment to finding sustainable enterprise server solutions that reduce waste and powers progress.

“The global thirst for more computing power and storage see demand for volume servers and the resulting energy consumption to continue to rise. As an industry, it is our responsibility to find ways to reduce power consumption while still providing the computing ability needed to fuel cutting edge research and groundbreaking enterprises,” said Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs. “PSSC Labs has taken a big step in engineering a HPC / data center server that does not compromise on performance but will significantly reduce power consumption. By deploying the Eco Blade server instead of traditional servers from other manufacturers, companies will reduce their cap ex and op ex while being good stewards of the environment.”

In addition to the lifetime saving in energy costs, the Eco Blade servers allow higher density rack configurations which reduce the amount of infrastructure and networking equipment required, translating to huge cost savings during the initial purchase as well as savings to recurring maintenance costs.

Eco Blade Technical Specs:

  • Supports 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2600v4 Processors
    • Up to 128 Processor Cores in just 1U of rack space (with hypertheading enabled)
  • Up to 1.0TB of High Performance ECC Registered System Memory Per Server
  • 2 x Redundant SSD Operating System Hard Drives
  • Network Connectivity Options include 10GigE, 40GigE and 100GigE
    • Support for Mellanox Infiniband and Intel Omnipath
  • Remote Management through Dedicated IPMI 2.0 Network
  • Certified Compatible with Red Hat Linux, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Operating Systems

Application Compatibility

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Mesos
  • OpenStack
  • Joyent
  • Rancher
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads

All PSSC Labs server installation includes a one year unlimited phone / email support package (additional year support available), with fully US based support staff. Prices for a custom-built Eco Blade servers start at $2,299.

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pssc-labs-announces-greenest-new-eco-blade-server-platform-for-high-performance-computing-300461080.html

PSSC Labs Announces New Release of CBeST Cluster Management Software Stack

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Provides everything needed to manage, monitor, maintain and upgrade PSSC Labs’ HPC clusters on delivery

The CloudOOP 12000 now supports all flash storage that can replace the disk drives shown here, maintaining the CloudOOP 12000's innovative design while delivering even faster analytics.
The CloudOOP 12000 now supports all flash storage that can replace the disk drives shown here, maintaining the CloudOOP 12000’s innovative design while delivering even faster analytics.

LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — PSSC Labs, a developer of custom HPC and Big Data computing solutions, today announced it now offers the option of complete flash storage for its CloudOOP 12000 enterprise server, built specifically for Hadoop. The faster storage option means PSSC Labs can now offer increased data analytics speeds and improved performance, making the CloudOOP 12000 the ideal enterprise Hadoop solution.

The CloudOOP 12000 now supports the new Micron 5100 series Solid State SATAIII (SSDs), with up to 14 x Micron SSDs (2 drives dedicated for operating system and 12 drives for data storage). The all flash storage option provides durability, reliability, and faster performance at a price point that makes the technology affordable to more enterprise users. The Micron SSD’s offer faster speeds that traditional non-flash storage, and when combined with the CloudOOP 12000’s made for Hadoop server, can achieves near real time performance for data analytics.

Using the largest capacity Micron SSDs, the CloudOOP 12000 can support up to 96 TBs of storage and is tailored to meet the needs of read-intensive video streaming, latency-sensitive transactional databases and write-intensive logging applications.  It also makes an excellent platform for edge computing with the ability to consume large amounts of data very quickly from IOT devices and sensors.

The CloudOOP 12000 is the only server specifically designed for Hadoop, Kafka, Big Data and 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 data center footprint and significantly reducing your total cost of ownership with an over 90% efficiency rating.

 “The CloudOOP1200 is PSSC Lab’s unique platform for enterprise users using applications like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka Streaming. PSSC Labs has already successfully deployed over 100 PBytes for Hadoop using the CloudOOP 12000 platform, and after stringent review of the SSD options on the market, we’ve certified of Micron’s new 5100 series of SSDs, which will allow us to offer our customers a high capacity, high performance, durable system with the absolute lowest cost of ownership, “said Alex Lesser, Vice President of PSSC Labs.

Micron 5100 Series SSD Features include

High Capacity

  • Unique range of solutions with up to 8TB of storage in a 2.5-inch form factor and 2TB in an M.2

High Performance

  • Three models optimized for varying workloads with consistent, steady state random writes at 74,000 IOPS.

Secure Encryption

  • Built-in AES-256-bit encryption and TCG Enterprise protection with FIPS 140-2 validation – available on the 5100 MAX.

Greater Flexibility

  • Micron’s FlexPro firmware architecture can be used to actively tune capacity to optimize drive performance and endurance

Best Reliability

  • Unmatched 99.999%2 quality of service (QoS) compared to spinning media. MTTF of 2 million device hours


CloudOOP 12000 Features Include

High Processing Power

  • The CloudOOP 12000 supports up to 2 x Intel Xeon E5 Series processors & up to 256GB high performance memory – get higher performance and reduced computing time

Direct Connect IO technology

  • Unique design gives each hard drive its own independent path to the motherboard – removing unnecessary components that restrict data pathways and improving data ingestion & IO rates.

Connectivity Options

  • GigE, 10GigE, 40GigE and Infiniband network connectivity options available. Dual GigE network bandwidth comes standard, with addition network adapters from Intel, Mellanox, Solarflare and others available.

Operating System Compatibility

  • Supports Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu & most other Linux distributions.

All CloudOOP 12000 server configurations 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/2017/04/prweb14251202.htm