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UNIVERSITY
OF FLORIDA SELECTS RACKABLE SYSTEMS SERVERS AND STORAGE FOR RESEARCH
FACILITY EXPANSION
-- Rackable Systems Servers and Storage Deployed
in One of the Largest Academic HPC Data Centers in the US --
MILPITAS, Calif., DECEMBER 13, 2005 – Rackable
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK), a leading provider of servers and storage
for large scale data centers, today announced completion of a major
deployment of servers and storage at the University of Florida's (UF)
High-Performance Computing Center. UF chose Rackable Systems' award
winning, rack-mount Foundation Series servers and clustered file system
storage solutions for their leading performance levels, high density,
exceptional thermal management and low power consumption.
Faced with data center space constraints and skyrocketing power bills,
the University of Florida turned to Rackable Systems. To take full
advantage of the thermal and space efficiencies of the Foundation Series
platform, UF not only purchased new servers, but also replaced its
existing single-core servers from a legacy vendor to expand the size
of the cluster to 198 nodes featuring 800 processing cores. Rackable
Systems' award-winning clustered file system solution was also deployed
to provide 43 Terabytes of fibre channel storage for the facility.
Leveraging Rackable Systems' half-depth, highly dense, rack-mount
servers powered by dual-core AMD Opteron™ processors, UF was
able to triple its compute power in half the space occupied by its
previous cluster. By deploying DC-powered nodes, UF also achieved significant
savings in power and cooling while greatly enhancing overall reliability.
"As one of the nation's leading research institutions, our distributed-memory
cluster must run the most demanding and computationally intensive scientific
and engineering applications available while maintaining a high level
of performance and reliability," said Dr. Charles Taylor, senior
HPC systems engineer at the University of Florida. "Rackable Systems
provided a complete package of clustered servers and storage that tripled
our computational capacity while reducing our power and cooling costs—all
in less than half the space of our previous cluster."
The University also deployed Rackable Systems servers at its Tier-2
Center, a member of a global grid computing infrastructure supporting
the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment and other computationally
intensive scientific applications.
"Rackable Systems' efficient, DC-powered servers and well-designed
clusters allowed us to greatly increase our processing capability while
reducing operational costs," said Dr. Jorge Luis Rodriguez, lead
scientist for the University of Florida's CMS Tier-2 Center.
"World-class HPC research facilities like the University of Florida
are increasingly choosing Rackable Systems servers and storage for
their data centers," said Tom Barton, president and CEO of Rackable
Systems.
"As the need for maximum compute performance and storage capacity
continues to rise, organizations require solutions that are more efficiently
powered, cooled and maintained. We look forward to working closely
with UF to provide the industry's most advanced data center solutions
for their computing needs."
About Rackable Systems
Rackable Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RACK) is a provider of servers and
storage products for scale out data center deployments. The company's
servers are designed to provide benefits in the areas of density,
thermal efficiency, serviceability, power distribution and remote
management. Founded in 1999 and based in Milpitas, California, Rackable
Systems serves Internet, semiconductor design, enterprise software,
federal government, entertainment, financial services, HPC, oil and
gas exploration and biotechnology customers worldwide.
To learn more about Rackable Systems, go to www.rackable.com,
call 408-240-8300, or write to info@rackable.com.
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holders.
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