VIA EPIA EN-Powered Ainkaboot Octimod Cluster Makes HPC Scalable and Affordable

VIA EPIA EN-Powered Ainkaboot Octimod Cluster Makes HPC Scalable and Affordable

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that Ainkaboot, a London-based company designing cluster servers for high performance computing (HPC) and high availability computing, is shipping the first ultra compact Octimod MPC7-1500 cluster modules powered by VIA EPIA EN15000 mainboards.

Based on the Beowulf concept of providing HPC using off-the-shelf hardware, Octimod is a power-efficient, modular approach to parallel computing, database replication, batch processing and supercomputing for small, medium and large scale companies, academic institutions, government agencies and research facilities. Its high performance computing services include rapid financial simulations for the banking sector, 3D modeling for the special FX industry and software code compiling and testing, as well as high availability and load balancing for web and database serving or file system clustering.

Each Octimod MPC7-1500 processing module contains a VIA EPIA EN15000, with Octimod’s 4U units geared for flexible configuration of processing and storage modules, with up to four Serial ATA hard drive RAID modules, while at 300mm, half the depth of standard cabinets, data center managers can double their unit density. The dedicated cluster operating system KlustOS enables Octimod to take advantage of hardware features such as the VIA PadLock Security Engine integrated into VIA C7 processors, using the dual quantum-based RNGs and Montgomery Multiplier for speedy encryption/decryption in financial and other applications.

Density and reliability are further increased with a backplane that distributes DC power and SATA connectivity, lowering the cost of scaling up as well as reducing heat generation and power consumption – with each module consuming less than 30 watts at full power and around 1 watt idle, a fully populated cabinet can boast up to 216GHz of processing power at less than 4.3kW, which equates to less than 20 watts per gigahertz.

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