OIL & GAS

Terrascale Technologies, a breakthrough developer of next generation input/output (I/O) software for cluster and grid computing, today announced that Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems business has selected its TerraGrid product as the I/O platform for its new Toro high performance computing (HPC) cluster architecture. Raytheon's Toro is a 100% commodity-based Linux cluster architecture that has set a new price/performance standard in HPC. Toro dramatically lowers the total cost of ownership of an HPC solution and eliminates traditional cluster shortcomings, including scalability, I/O bandwidth and "enterprise class" availability. TerraGrid is the "glue" binding together commodity servers, networks and Open Source software, enabling sustained application performance levels previously attainable only on traditional expensive and proprietary systems. TerraGrid-enabled systems are ideally suited to applications in energy, manufacturing, media, sciences, government and defense. By eliminating the I/O bottlenecks that have traditionally limited cluster computing, the integration of TerraGrid into Toro is a critical element in the architecture's unprecedented price to performance ratio. "We like to joke that all clusters wait at the same speed!" said Gautham Sastri, President and CEO, Terrascale Technologies. "So, Terrascale was founded on the principle of bringing commodity computing and virtually infinite scaling to the last bottleneck in cluster computing - I/O. As one of the world's largest technology companies, Raytheon's selection of TerraGrid, as a key component of their Toro architecture, is a major milestone in the continued adoption of Terrascale's technology. We look forward to working with Raytheon to further develop the adoption of Toro as an industry standard in HPC," Mr. Sastri added.