UK Supercomputer Announced in Paris
Added: (Thu Sep 22 2005)
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APPLE EXPO 2005, PARIS, FRANCE
DR STEVEN WINDMILL, CEO OF OMNETA, today announced that Omneta is building a 120-teraflop supercomputer – one of the fastest computers on the planet. The Omneta supercomputer is to be powered by Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage systems; directly connected by the high speed Interoute AG network to the top 61 major cities across nineteen countries; enabling customers to access Omneta’s phenomenal power from their computer desktop. With Beta testing to begin shortly, the system is expected to be available commercially in 2006.
Omneta revolutionises cluster computing, launching its fully scaleable ‘internal’ grid.
Dr Windmill says “With our supercomputer located in secure, bombproof, ‘bunkers’, Omneta can provide phenomenal computer power at a competitive cost, with technological and physical security well beyond industry standards; a compelling argument for our customers. Omneta will make supercomputer power easily available - enabling doctors to rapidly analayse data that can save lives. Banks will also be able to monitor and detect money laundering and insider trading on a real-time basis; potentially reducing the threat of terrorism".
Working closely with both Apple Inc and Interoute AG, Omneta launches with ultra high levels of technological and physical security.
Tony Clark, Omneta CTO says: “We are purchasing Xserve G5 computers and Xserve RAID storage systems to build a fully scaleable, very powerful, multi-site, secure computing environment. Omneta will be launching a wide portfolio of services over the coming months, the first of which is R-A-P (RentAProcessor); providing clients with the capability of purchasing compute time on a contract or pay-as-you-go basis, just like mobile telephony.”
More information available on www.omnetaplc.com
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