Penguin in the News

Penguin Pushes Envelope on Compute Density

“In the midst of the GPU Technology Conference this week, Penguin Computing served up a new high-power system, heavy on the GPU/coprocessor side, to meet the needs of HPC customers with heavy processing needs..”

ARM Muscles In on Intel's Dominance in Datacenters

“"Among the customers that we serve, both HPC as well as large web farms, one of the common themes that comes up is that in the world of semiconductors today, it's all about performance per watt," says Charles Wuischpard, CEO of Penguin Computing.”

AMD Rolls Out Open Compute Servers for Wall Street

“We have eagerly awaited the AMD Open 3.0 platform as it brings the benefits and spirit of the Open Compute Project to a much wider set of customers,” said Charlie Wuischpard, CEO of Penguin Computing. “As we deliver a new line of Penguin servers based on AMD Open 3.0 and AMD Opteron 6300 processors, our high performance computing, cloud, and enterprise customers can now deploy application specific systems using the same core building blocks that are cost, performance, and energy optimized and perhaps most important, consistent. We think this initiative eliminates unnecessary complexity and provides new levels of supportability and reliability to the modern data center.”

AMD Honors Top Channel Partners Helping Drive Success in North American Commercial Market

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced the recipients of its North American Commercial Channel Partner Awards at the annual AMD North American Executive Commercial Channel Summit in San Francisco on July 25, 2012. During the two-day event, AMD’s valued channel partners came together to share insights on topics that will help define the future of the commercial channel.

HPC Clouds – An Opportunity Not Just for the “Missing Middle”

The term “missing middle” was coined by the Council on Competitiveness and refers to small and medium-sized manufacturers that are missing out on the benefits of advanced modeling and simulation technologies. Capital and operational expenses associated with high performance computing (HPC) deployments required to run simulation codes are a barrier of entry for these organizations.

Penguin Computing is flapping its wings, as it has received Intel's Data Center Innovation Award at the Intel Solutions Summit.

A press release describes the award as going to a company that exhibits "… successful deployment and integration of a data center or server solution resulting in superior return on investment for the client." This year, the Penguin on Demand (POD) cloud service gained that recognition from Intel.

Another under-the-radar Linux server supplier is Penguin Computing, although it's been in business for more than ten years. The company focuses more on high performance computing (HPC), cloud computing and high-efficiency computing solutions than on standard data center workload fodder. Its line of high-efficiency systems for server farms compare to other server systems on this list. Unfortunately, there's no pricing information on the website. System pricing is by quotation only.

Systems ship with a standard three-year parts warranty. On-site support is an extra charge. You can customize systems with the online configurator page but, again, your system's price is a mystery until you submit the configuration for a quote.

insideHPC

November 27th, 2011

In this video, Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorny discusses the company’s latest innovation–an APU-based supercomputer deployed at Sandia National Labs. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle.

DANVILLE, Calif., and FREMONT, Calif, Nov. 15 — Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from a worldwide network of high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, announced today a world-wide Lustre support agreement with Penguin Computing, experts in integrated high performance computing (HPC) solutions. The agreement will allow a wide range of cooperation on Penguin’s HPC cluster solutions and Penguin's on-demand HPC cloud service, known as Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD). Support services will begin immediately.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 2 -- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced several new installations of advanced research and academic supercomputers will run on a wide range of AMD technology including the upcoming 16-core processor codenamed “Interlagos,” the AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and the AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor. Included among the latest deployments are Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) supercomputers at the university of Edinburgh (HECToR), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).

Big Things Come in Small Packages

AMD Blog

November 1st, 2011

As the evangelist for AMD Opteron™ processors, it isn’t often that I get to talk about some of the things taking shape on the consumer side of the housewith our Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). But every now and then something comes up that catches my attention.

For example, I recently blogged about running a home server on an APU. But that was a real low-power server with very light workloads; I chose the APU for the power efficiency, and the GPU side of my APU rarely ever comes to life unless I tunnel in via remote console for management.

Most conferences provide an opportunity for event sponsors to get their messages across to attendees in one way or another, at the very least by providing a platform to talk amidst the glow of a PowerPoint presentation. Oftentimes, these overviews address audiences at large—and avoid the “big questions” about potential problems, drawbacks or other points of weakness.

Biotechs Hop on Cloud Nine with Better Resources Gained from New Technology

www.genengnews.com

May 23rd, 2011

Once described as less a technological advance than a new business model, cloud computing offers small biotechs access to big technology and heavy computing power relatively cheaply. Ranging from complete IT infrastructures in the sky to basic data storage, features of cloud computing include resource outsourcing, utility computing, large collections of inexpensive machines, automated resource management, virtualization, and parallel computing.

Next generation DNA sequencing has brought a wealth of opportunities in research, pharmaceutical and clinical contexts, but for those who are in the high performance computing space, this particular market is bursting with a different array of opportunities. From specialty clusters dedicated exclusively to crunching the overwhelming amounts of data coming of sequencers (not to mention the storage might to keep it all in check) the biosciences industry is a prime target for vendors of all stripes.

The morning started with a Plenary Kenote by Bryn Roberts from Roche. His talk was titled "Interacting with Complex Information Landscapes: Integration and Next Generation User Interfaces." He talked about the challenges of Pharma, and focused on integration tools. He asked the bioinformatics audience to be innovative and create solutions beyond what scientists want today. He believes that team decision making will accelerate discovery, and feels technology can assist this essential step for scientific breakthroughs.

Genomes, Clouds, and No Headaches

www.genomeweb.com

April 13th, 2011

Probably the best sound bite from day two of the Bio-It World Expo in Boston was provided by Nicholas Socci, assistant director of the Bioinformatic Core at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: “Either the computers are ready for me to use, in the way that I want to use them, or they’re not ready-and those are the only real pros and cons.”

Linux server specialist Penguin Computing has jumped into the overclocked server fray with a new Altus server aimed at clock-hungry high frequency stock trading applications.

Dan Dufault, Novell’s Global Director of Partner Marketing, recently sat down with Penguin Computing’s Chief Hardware Architect, Philip Pokorny and the Company’s director of product management for high performance computing, Arend Dittmer to discuss their experience providing solutions to the Linux market as well as Penguin’s partnership with Novell. Specializing 100% on Linux since 1998, Penguin’s areas of expertise include high performance computing, cluster management, as well as on-demand HPC resources.

Podcast: Penguin On Demand is One Cloud That’s All About HPC

Inside HPC

December 7th, 2010

In this podcast, Penguin Computing product manager Arend Dittmer shares his insights into what the company has learned from 18 months of Penguin on Demand. The POD cloud is all about HPC and they built it that way from ground up.

Penguin Adds HPC On-Demand Service

HPCwire.com

August 12th, 2009

Linux cluster maker Penguin Computing hopped on the HPC-in-a-cloud bandwagon this week with the announcement of its HPC on-demand service. Called Penguin On Demand (POD), the service consists of an HPC compute infrastructure whose capacity can be rented on a pay-as-you-go basis or through a monthly subscription.

Penguin on Demand

Cloud Computing Journal

August 11th, 2009

Penguin Computing is going into the cloud business.

Not your ordinary cloud, mind you, an HPC cloud, called Penguin on Demand (POD), an extension of its usual fare, and a first.

Today, the San Francisco-based outfit announced the debut of what it calls Penguin on Demand - POD, for short - a service that offers remote access to high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. The idea is to provide researchers, engineers, and simulation scientists with the sort of number-crunching power they can't get from something along the lines of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Adaptec Introduces Series 5Z RAID Controllers With First Maintenance Free, Flash-Based Cached Data Protection for On-Demand Cloud Computing Data Centers

www.merinews.com

June 24th, 2009

Innovative, HighPerformance Adaptec Series 5Z Unified Serial(R) RAID Controllers Reduce Data Center Operating Costs, Enhance Data Protection, and Minimize Environmental Hazards.

Building Market Awareness on a Budget

Utah Business

June 1st, 2009

Marketing programs can be one of the first casualties in a down economy. Such budgetary decisions are usually made with short-term objectives in mind, but can often lead to long-term negative results if not properly managed. Even with limited budgets, there are a number of smart, creative, and low cost methods for continuing to build market awareness, while weathering the economic storm:

Linux Cluster Vendor Penguin Making Its Move

eweek.com

April 27th, 2009

Penguin Computing, which makes Linux-based virtualized computing clusters, is looking to build on its solid financials to expand its business. Penguin is building an on-demand system for HPC customers, and is looking to grow through acquisition. Penguin officials say the recent deals in the infrastructure space, including Oracle buying Sun and Rackable acquiring SGI, give the company opportunities to gain greater traction in the competitive HPC market.