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SiCortex Signs European Reseller Agreement
SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux cluster from the silicon up, announced that it has entered into an agreement with MEGWARE, a leading European high performance computing systems integrator, to sell SiCortex's family of ultra compact, high performance Linux systems to the European market. MEGWARE will distribute SiCortex's products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the Czech Republic. 
"We expect SiCortex's products to be very well received in the European market," said Dirk Viertel, MEGWARE managing director. "Power consumption has become an increasing concern in Europe, and SiCortex's ability to dramatically reduce power usage while providing industry-leading performance enables us to offer a unique solution to our customers." Since 1990 MEGWARE has been providing systems integration services to customers throughout Europe, with a specialty in HPC clusters. The company designs and builds custom systems as well as reselling systems and components from leading vendors. MEGWARE's projects include cluster systems for the automotive, aircraft and aerospace industries, including Czech Republic automaker SKODA, Volkswagen AG and Voith Turbo Marine. MEGWARE has also assembled a supercomputer for the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. This compute cluster with 772 CPU cores reaches a Linpack benchmark performance of 6,52 TeraFlop/s, and is ranked 192 on the Top500 List of the world's fastest supercomputers. "Our agreement with MEGWARE is an important step for SiCortex," said SiCortex CEO Dr. John Mucci. "Europe represents a significant market opportunity for us, and working with one of Germany's leading systems integrators is the ideal introduction." SiCortex has introduced a new concept in high performance computing, limiting power consumption and physical size to gain performance. The company has implemented a complete cluster node on a chip, including six 64-bit processors, multiple memory controllers, a high performance cluster interconnect and a PCIexpress connection to storage and internetworking. A SiCortex cluster node consumes 15 watts of power, an order of magnitude less than the 250 watts used in a conventional cluster node. The SC5832 can perform six trillion operations per second in a cabinet that is less than one-third the size of conventional clusters.
"We expect SiCortex's products to be very well received in the European market," said Dirk Viertel, MEGWARE managing director. "Power consumption has become an increasing concern in Europe, and SiCortex's ability to dramatically reduce power usage while providing industry-leading performance enables us to offer a unique solution to our customers." Since 1990 MEGWARE has been providing systems integration services to customers throughout Europe, with a specialty in HPC clusters. The company designs and builds custom systems as well as reselling systems and components from leading vendors. MEGWARE's projects include cluster systems for the automotive, aircraft and aerospace industries, including Czech Republic automaker SKODA, Volkswagen AG and Voith Turbo Marine. MEGWARE has also assembled a supercomputer for the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. This compute cluster with 772 CPU cores reaches a Linpack benchmark performance of 6,52 TeraFlop/s, and is ranked 192 on the Top500 List of the world's fastest supercomputers. "Our agreement with MEGWARE is an important step for SiCortex," said SiCortex CEO Dr. John Mucci. "Europe represents a significant market opportunity for us, and working with one of Germany's leading systems integrators is the ideal introduction." SiCortex has introduced a new concept in high performance computing, limiting power consumption and physical size to gain performance. The company has implemented a complete cluster node on a chip, including six 64-bit processors, multiple memory controllers, a high performance cluster interconnect and a PCIexpress connection to storage and internetworking. A SiCortex cluster node consumes 15 watts of power, an order of magnitude less than the 250 watts used in a conventional cluster node. The SC5832 can perform six trillion operations per second in a cabinet that is less than one-third the size of conventional clusters.