Linux Networx Sets Visualization World Record by Tripling Previous Rendering Rate

June 27 2006

the largest ever for EnSight DR --enabling extremely large data sets to be visualized in their entirety,thereby substantially enhancing the price/performance of the system. Thesystem is currently being delivered to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)and is the first production visualization cluster ever ordered under theDepartment of Defense's (DoD) High Performance Computing ModernizationProgram (HPCMP).

"We're proud that EnSight DR running on Linux Networx Supersystems achievedthis significant performance landmark," says Darin McKinnis, vice presidentof marketing and sales for CEI, maker of EnSight and other products forextreme visualization and meshing. "This is proof of EnSight DR's uniqueability to exploit the distributed memory capacity of networked systemscontaining high-performance graphics cards, enabling users to handledatasets and display sizes well beyond other commercial and researchapplications."

"We're committed to helping our customers solve their most challengingsupercomputing problems," said Robert "Bo" Ewald, CEO of Linux Networx."This latest visualization system takes the most complex visualizationmodel available today and runs it as smoothly and simply as if it were ascreen-saver on your desktop. That's yet another example of the power andprice/performance that Linux Networx offers our customers in everysupercomputer that we deliver."

Linux Networx LS-V Visual Supersystems deliver the ultimate visualizationpower and work throughput in the high performance visualization industry.LS-V Visual Supersystems double the performance of legacy visualizationcomputers at half of their cost. With its comprehensive integration, tunedapplications, superior graphics and computational power, lower operationaland management costs, and reduced system complexity, the application-tunedLS-V delivers leading Total Application Throughput and reduced Total Costof Ownership for visualization solutions. The system that set thevisualization record features 64 Linux Networx visualization nodes with 128AMD Model 280 Dual-Core processors. Each node features two GraphicsProcessing Units. The system has 1,024 GB of total RAM, an InfiniBandinterconnect, and includes EnSight DR Version 8, RedHat Enterprise Linux,Linux Networx Clusterworx Management Suite and Linux Networx Host FailoverSolution.

EnSight DR performs distributed rendering for analyzing, visualizing andcommunicating high-end scientific and engineering data sets. The datamodels used represent one time step of a very high resolution simulation ofthe resultant compressible turbulence that occurs when a shockwave passesthrough the interface of two fluids. The original work to produce thismodel was conducted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

About Linux Networx

For over a decade Linux Networx has delivered Linux Supercomputersspecifically designed to drive new levels of Total Application Throughputfor our customers. The company's Linux Supercomputing offerings powervalue in application-tuned price/performance and utilization, overallsystem reliability, uptime and Total Cost of Operations. The company hasdelivered over 500 supercomputing systems to more than 200 supercomputingcustomers around the world. In 2005, the company achieved record growth inorders. Our global customer base represents supercomputing leaders rangingfrom Boeing in aerospace; BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Audi, Caterpillar and JohnDeere in heavy manufacturing; Total, Schlumberger and Shell Oil in the Oiland Gas industry; and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia NationalLaboratories and the Department of Defense in the government arena. In 2005the company was awarded three HPCWire Editor and Reader's Choice Awards --for Most Innovative Technology in two categories and for BestPrice/Performance. For more information about Linux Networx, visitwww.linuxnetworx.com.

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