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Xtreme Compute Technologies (XCT) has announced the immediate availability of a full line of the high performance computing (HPC)-focused "v-BriX" product family of visual compute solutions, powered by the new NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions featuring NVIDIA Fermi architecture.

XCT brings together a team of seasoned HPC professionals and their associated partners with decades of successfully designing and delivering best of breed solutions to address the constantly expanding challenges that HPC presents, across all disciplines.

"Our team has collectively delivered over $300M in HPC deployments, across commercial, government, and research projects. We formed XCT to further expand upon our extensive foundational expertise to continue to deliver innovative and cost effective solutions for the challenges that lay ahead," said Leo Iantosca, managing partner, XCT. "XCT will strive to be fully dedicated to our customers' success in maintaining a competitive edge through the intelligent application of the latest innovative technologies, like NVIDIA Quadro pro graphics. XCT is committed to extend our knowledge and expertise in partnership with our engineers, researchers, developers, and vendors for the benefit of our clients. "

"The new v-BriX family of NVIDIA Quadro GPU-enabled solutions, brings much needed scalability, to the marketplace," said Jeff Fettig, vice president and partner, XCT. "Available in varying configurations and chassis options, including 1u, 2u and the convenient Side-Car, our v-BriX product family gives the marketplace additional choices, as well as a standard 3 year warranty."

"XCT offers its customers a tremendous amount of flexibility with their NVIDIA Quadro GPU solutions," says Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group, NVIDIA. "Combining the incredible computational capabilities with the exceptional graphics performance in our new NVIDIA Fermi based solutions provides XCT clients with very attractive application development options."

"XCT and PNY are partnering to bring together the advantages of the new Fermi based NVIDIA Quadro multi GPU capabilities within the XCT family of compute solutions. Featuring CUDA, OpenGL 4.1 hardware acceleration, ECC and fast double precision, these new high performance compute solutions are ideal for XCT clients" said Jeff Medeiros, director of marketing and business development, PNY Technologies.

Available XCT v-BriX configurations include:

• 1u rackmount, single PCIe x16/Gen2 connection, 850W PSU, supporting up to 4 single wide (NVIDIA Quadro 4000) or 2 double wide GPUs (Quadro 5000 or Quadro 6000).
• 2u, dual PCIe x16/Gen2 connections, dual 850W redundant PSUs, supporting up to 8 single wide (Quadro 4000) or 4 double wide GPUs (Quadro 5000 or Quadro 6000).
• Deskside "Side-Car" workstation add on chassis, single PCIe x16/Gen2 connection, 850W PSU, supporting up to 3 double wide GPU's (Quadro 5000 or Quadro 6000)...Great for PCIe constrained mainstream workstations.