Penguin Computing Announces New Altus™ Family of HPC Computing Solutions based on the new Six-Core AMD® Opteron™ 2400 and 8400 Series processors

Penguin’s AMD® Opteron® based servers deliver a new level of performance, compute power and efficiency for HPC customers

San Francisco, Calif, (June 11th, 2009)

Penguin Computing®, experts in high performance computing (“HPC”) solutions, announced today a new family of Altus Series products based on the AMD Opteron processor code-named “Istanbul”. Penguin has now added the Altus 1701 and Altus 2701 dual-processor enterprise servers, the Altus 1702 twin-node HPC cluster server and the Altus 2704 quad processor enterprise server to its Altus product line Penguin’s new servers feature AMD’s six-core Opteron 2400 and 8400 series processors. This new generation of Altus servers delivers outstanding performance, scalability, and energy efficiency leading to an outstanding return on your investment.

These new Penguin Altus servers are available immediately. Penguin’s new Altus servers provide 50 percent more processor cores compared to previous Altus models, as well as increased memory and I/O bandwidth, due to the HyperTransport Assist feature. Similar to other Penguin Computing servers, the new Altus 1701, Altus 1702, Altus 2701 and Altus 2704 servers provide management and serviceability features to support large HPC cluster deployments and mission critical enterprise applications. Penguin Computing also provides these new Altus servers in integrated, Application Ready™ clusters configured with single or twin-node Altus servers, high performance interconnect fabrics, including InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and managed by Penguin’s Scyld ClusterWare cluster management software suite.

“Our new processor innovations, dense computing efficiencies and consistent 1U to 4U platforms provide Penguin’s customers with a step up in high-performance computing,” said John Fruehe, director, Business Development, Server and Workstation products, AMD. “Our superior value at every price point helps Penguin’s customers achieve more with every server computing dollar.”

“We are excited to provide this new family of Altus servers to our HPC customers,” said Jussi Kukkonen, director of hardware product management at Penguin Computing. “Distributed applications will benefit greatly from the 50 percent increase in core count and physical density, while HT Assist boosts the RAM performance for our customer’s large, memory hungry applications.”

See www.penguincomputing.com/products/[Altus landing page] for details or more information.