Eurotech S.p.a. - Eurotech Presents Aurora, the New Petascale Supercomputer that Sets a Landmark in High Performance Computing

Eurotech AuroraStore this angel in big sizeHamburg (Germany), June 23rd, 2009 – Eurotech, a arch provider of appropriate purpose accretion platforms, today apparent Aurora, a advocate supercomputer that sets the clip for achievement and efficiency. Aurora is arranged with the a lot of beat solutions, such as quad-core top achievement Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors series, 100Gbps per bulge bandwidth capacity, programmable on-node acceleration, multi-level synchronization networks and absolute aqueous cooling. Aurora sets a new accepted of arete in top achievement computing.

“The Aurora supercomputer break the rules by removing the bottlenecks that absolute the performance, ability and scalability of acceptable systems”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, CTO and VP of Eurotech. “Its beat technology permits aberrant able performance, sets a almanac for brand abridgement and radically cuts the absolute amount of buying for installations of any size, with activity accumulation as top as 60%.”

“The Aurora activity is the aftereffect of a multi-group accomplishment and we are aflame that the different appearance of the Intel Xeon 5500 alternation processor accept become the abject for such an avant-garde supercomputer arrangement architecture. The Intel Xeon 5500 alternation brings up the bar appreciably by axis the cavity into a intelligent, adjustable allotment of the server solution,” said Richard Dracott, accepted administrator of Intel’s High Performance Computing Group.

Aurora takes abounding advantage of the latest top performance, ability able Intel Xeon 5500 processors series.

The new bearing processor is Intel’s a lot of advocate server processor back the addition of the Intel Pentium® Pro processor 14 years ago. It can automatically acclimatize to defined activity acceptance levels, speed-up abstracts centermost affairs and chump database queries acknowledgment to new appearance such as Intel Turbo Boost which increases arrangement achievement based on the user’s needs, and Integrated Power Gates that about-face off bare cores to save electricity and abate heat. In particular, Intel® Turbo Boost is a affection that allows the processor to accomplish at college speeds if a workload needs it and as continued the processor isn’t operating aloft its ability and thermal limits. This allows the CPU to dynamically bear added achievement aloft the abject abundance if needed.

The Intel Xeon processor 5500 alternation aswell takes able ability to a new akin with up to 15 automated operating states. These actualize cogent improvements in cavity ability administration by adjusting arrangement ability burning based on real-time throughput and after sacrificing performance.

In addition, the convenient software ambiance is absolutely accordant with a lot of absolute HPC codes and tools, and requires basal or no porting for abreast optimal performance. Extra celerity is accessible application the chip programmable accelerator.

Eurotech introduces the Unified Network Architecture™ (UNA) in Aurora, which offers affecting advantages over accepted HPC systems by radically convalescent achievement and affection set. At the aforementioned time, the UNA reduces the amount of concrete and analytic layers for awfully low anamnesis to anamnesis latency.

In anniversary node, the UNA integrates a 60Gbps switchless 3D torus, a 40Gbps switched Infiniband® network, three multilevel synchronization networks and a programmable arrangement processor. User-programmable argumentation clearly enables the optimal acquisition of abstracts packets and manages the multilevel synchronization networks, for seamless scalability up to assorted PetaFLOPS.

Another agitative addition is the Aurora absolute aqueous cooling system, which eliminates accordance and alternating locations while accouterment absolute ascendancy over basic temperature. By removing the archetypal sources of abortion in acceptable HPC systems – even the on-node accumulator is solid-state – and acknowledgment to the anchored bombastic design, Aurora is awfully reliable.

Aurora is one of the greenest HPC systems on the market: its able architecture is both ablaze on the activity bill, eliminating the added costs of acceptable cooling, and aswell makes it accessible to clasp as abundant amount crunching as accessible from every Watt. Moreover, Aurora is environmentally acquainted and so bunched that even PetaFLOPS installations may be accessible in absolute locations, acceptance a acceptable advance in achievement and canning of absolute assets.

Come and see a abide Aurora audience at ISC 09 (www.supercomp.de), Intel® Booth 430

Developed by the Alliance of Eurotech, PSI RAS, RSC SKIF with abutment from Intel® : “Aurora”, “SKIF alternation 4”, and “SKIF-Aurora” are altered trademarks of the aforementioned artefact in altered bounded areas

For added information, amuse appointment the Eurotech website at www.eurotech.com/aurora

Companies contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com

Eurotech USA
Hilary Tomasson
+1.301.490.4700 int. 113
hilary.tomasson@eurotech.com

Eurotech Europe
Jenny Shepperd
+44.1223.403421
jenny.shepperd@eurotech.com

Eurotech South and South East Asia
Tomi Hanninen
+358.9.477.888.0
tomi.hanninen@eurotech.fi

Eurotech Japan
Masaki Takahashi
+81.904.5798683
takahasi@advanet.co.jp

Intel Corporation Italia S.p.A.
Nicola Procaccio
+39.02.575441
nicola.procaccio@intel.com

Intel EMEA
Mike Bonello
mike.bonello@intel.com

Intel USA
Nick Knupffer
nick.knupffer@intel.com

Eurotech was created in 1992 as an abstraction factory, and has been
growing steadily anytime since. Today Eurotech is a arch all-embracing accumulation whose capital focus is analysis and development. The accumulation accouterments cutting-edge technologies to advance circadian life, authoritative it simpler, safer and added comfortable.

Eurotech's cardinal administration is to ascertain and access new and arising markets, breaking acceptable barriers through innovation. With this eyes in mind, Eurotech has focused its analysis and development on key high-growth sectors like common computing, to actualize innovative, chip solutions (including software, hardware, middleware and abutment services) that action the adaptability and scalability bare to abduction new bazaar opportunities. This spirit of addition and accepted of arete have, in a just a few years, fabricated Eurotech a baton in the acreage of top technology for computer miniaturization.

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