BIOLOGY

Dolphin Interconnect announced today that they have support from Scyld Software, a leader in second-generation Beowulf clustering software. Starting with the 29-series release of Scyld Beowulf for the Intel® Xeon™ and AMD® Opteron™ platforms. The 29-series significantly reduces the time necessary to develop and deploy a distributed parallel application by providing scientists and application developers with out-of-the-box integrated parallel programming code libraries, a scalable deployment architecture and cluster management interfaces. In addition to 64-bit support, the 29-series includes software code library compatibility and binary compatibility with other market-leading commercial Linux distributions. "Scyld is a major and respected player in the Beowulf clustering market and Dolphin Interconnect is committed to offering their customers the widest range of clustering software options," said Keith Murphy Vice President of Sales for Dolphin Interconnect "High-performance computing applications in life sciences, computational fluid dynamics, integrated circuit design and data warehousing have massive processing, and memory addressing requirements," said Donald Becker, founder and chief technical officer of Scyld. "The successful deployment of the Opteron and Itanium architectures is driving the migration from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, which significantly expands the class of problems addressable with Beowulf clusters." "Scyld Beowulf leverages the performance advantages of Dolphin SCI technology to create some of the highest cluster performance available," said Kare Lochsen, Dolphin Interconnect CEO. "With this level of operating system support, Dolphin continues to fulfill its mission with industry leading cluster performance."