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Eurotech: 10M USD contract to supply embedded computers for automated fare collection systems

Posted By pivari

Date: July 14th, 2010

Category: Informatics

Amaro (Italy), July 12th, 2010Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products and systems, today announces a 10 million USD contract to supply embedded computers to Cubic Transportation, the world’s leading turnkey solution provider of automated fare collection systems for public transport. Destined for use in the smart card ticketing system on the transport system of a major European capital, the contract will see 20,000+ units installed in buses and station gates throughout the network. Each unit will interface directly to a smart card reader and relay both passenger and journey information into the fare collection system

“Transportation is proving to be a rewarding market for Eurotech” says Roberto Siagri, President and CEO of Eurotech. “The order book is growing and I’m very pleased about how things are moving forward: after the 7.5 million USD contract that was announced in March, this is the second multi-million contract win this year, and I’m confident there’s more to come.”

“The successful introduction of this single board computer demonstrates not only Eurotech’s technical capabilities in embedded solutions, but also is testament to our ability to build design partnerships with our clients and find pragmatic solutions to the challenges that companies face during such projects” explains Frank Cutri, Eurotech’s European Managing Director. ”Cubic’s requirements needed a combination of hardware, software and domain expertise, backed by the stability of a global Group and the service of a local organisation, and Eurotech was able to demonstrate capability in all of these areas.”

ABOUT EUROTECH
Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a global leader in the design, development and production of application-ready embedded computers and systems. Eurotech architects systems that help companies bring their products to market quickly through the latest technologies with low-power consumption, multiple connectivity options and robust functionality. Eurotech specializes in helping customers connect their applications to the latest available wireless, mobile and pervasive technologies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

Company contacts:
Investor relations
Andrea Barbaro
Tel. +39 0433 485411
e-mail: andrea.barbaro@eurotech.com

Corporate Press Office
Cristiana della Zonca
Tel. +39 0433 485411
e-mail: cristiana.dellazonca@eurotech.com
International Press Office
Giovanni Sanfelice di Monteforte
Barabino & Partners UK Plc.
53, Davies Street - London W1 K5JH
Tel.: +44 (0)20 71526425
e-mail: G.Sanfelice@barabino.co.uk

Backorder domain, how to do it

Posted By MisterX

Date: June 16th, 2010

Category: Informatics

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You have probably heard about backorder domain lately, everybody talks about backorder domain, but no one tells how to do it.

Since the birth of Wix, backorder seems to be the new trend of the year, but how to do it?

Until a few years ago, anyone who wanted to do the backorder domain (recovering an expiring domain), followed the domain daily through the NIC in Pisa or the various Whois around the net. You can easily understand that such a job takes away an enormous number of hours.

Everyday you needed to be careful and wait for the right moment to register the domain. For a lot of domains with automatic renewal, this strategy turned out to be a huge waste of time, a true waterhole.

Nowadays, with the coming of services for backorder domain, things do not work out that way anymore. Trying to challenge a backorder service on its own battlefield is really unthinkable, so it is better to adapt ourselves to it.

Once signed to one of backorder domains in Italy (Wix the most famous), we will find at our disposal a very large variety of expiring domains, among which we will be able to select the one we will like the most. A domain list characterized by expiring domains of very high quality and old age.

Once selected the domain, to do the backorder we will just have to make an offer for it and wait for its recovery; in case that we will not be able to do the backorder domain or in case that someone made a higher offer for that domain, we will not have to pay a single euro cent to the service.

Unleashing Green Petascale Computing: Eurotech presents Aurora Au-5600, one of the first Intel® Cluster Ready supercomputers supporting the new 6-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series.

Posted By pivari

Date: June 14th, 2010

Category: Informatics

Eurotech presents Aurora Au-5600, the new release of its ultra-efficient HPC system family. Aurora is one of the leading supercomputing platforms in terms of power saving and scalability; with support for the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series CPU, Aurora delivers unprecedented levels of performance with the advantage of a certified Intel® Cluster Ready software environment.

Eurotech Aurora Au-5600Hamburg (Germany), May 31, 2010 – Aurora is the smart HPC architecture for the most demanding needs: thanks to its highly integrated, minimalistic and streamlined design it allows exceptional Flops per Watt ratio, outstanding TCO savings and one of the best Flops per square meter density.
“Aurora marks a new approach to HPC”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, Eurotech Group VP and CTO, “An approach that fits the quest for sustainable performance. Clearly, performance has always been a priority, but TCO, scalability and reliability are crucial. We have created Aurora to deliver much more than top-class performance: with Aurora we offer an HPC system that is sustainable at any size”.
With Aurora Au-5600, Eurotech updates its groundbreaking architecture with the latest 6-core Intel® CPU, the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series .By using the new processor, Aurora Au-5600 allows packing an unprecedented number of cores: one single Aurora rack contains up to 3.072 cores and delivers up to 41TFlops.
This massive computational capacity is compatible with the existing X86 software applications and development tools; in fact, Aurora Au-5600 is one of the first Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series based systems that is Intel® Cluster Ready certified.
“Aurora brings an exceptional value to the HPC customers”, said Dr. Herbert Cornelius, Intel Director Advanced Computing Center EMEA, “by utilizing the Intel® Cluster Ready architecture it allows that creating, installing and managing even the most sophisticated software setup is greatly simplified and delivering increased productivity and interoperability of HPC cluster solutions”.
Aurora features a number of high end technologies, such as 100Gb/s bandwidth per node, with a 60Gb/s 3D torus and a 40Gb/s Infiniband interface; multilevel synchronization networks for highly efficient scalability, and an on board, programmable accelerator can be used to implement highly optimized algorithms
With its exclusive liquid cooling system, Aurora has one of the best Power Usage Efficiency values and is one of the most reliable HPC platforms: by using liquid cooling it’s possible to control the temperature of each component with a precision and efficiency that air cooling simply cannot match; moreover, the total absence of fans and moving parts completely eliminates one of the most significant sources of downtime.
Visit Eurotech Aurora Booth #830 at the International Supercomputing Conference 2010 and check out the live demo of the Aurora Supercomputing system.
For more information, please visit the Eurotech website at http://www.eurotech.com/aurora

Media Contacts

Eurotech GroupGiuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com

Eurotech launches Aurora Au-5600, the green petascale supercomputer based on the latest Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processor

Posted By pivari

Date: March 30th, 2010

Category: Informatics

Eurotech introduces Aurora Au-5600, the next-generation Green supercomputer that unleashes the performance of the brand new Intel® Xeon® 5600 series

Eurotech Aurora Au-5600Amaro (Italy), March 17th, 2010 – Eurotech today launched Aurora Au-5600, the next-generation supercomputer for Green Petascale computing.

This announcement follows Intel’s introduction of Intel Xeon 5600 series processor and makes Eurotech one of the first market leaders to release an HPC platform based on it. This achievement is the last success in a series of joint launches made available by a strong collaboration between the two companies.

Based on the latest Intel 32 nm processors processor and relying on the cutting-edge, liquid cooled Aurora design, the new Aurora Au-5600 brings the efficiency and power of the 32nm architecture to the HPC domain.

“Aurora has always been a clear leader in terms of capability, TCO and optimal resource use” said Giampietro Tecchiolli, VP and CTO of the Eurotech Group. “The new 6-core Intel Xeon 5600 series are a perfect match for the Aurora architecture, bringing new levels of performance while further reducing the total power requirement footprint”.

Aurora Au-5600 benefits from the liquid cooling solution that Eurotech has designed for its HPC family, enabling unprecedented levels of density and reliability.

“Aurora HPC systems are liquid cooled and this brings exceptional savings on the electric bill,” said Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager. “With a coolant inlet temperature that can be as high as 40C, Aurora is one of the greenest HPC systems available today”.

“Choosing the latest Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors proves Eurotech’s ability in offering always solutions at the leading edge. The new features of the 32 nm processors provide incredible levels of performances and processing speed, reaching an efficiency extent able to respond with immediacy to all types of application”, comments Luca Romani, Regional Channel Manager Intel Italy & Switzerland

Aurora is the ideal choice for installations of any size: its noiseless operation and high density make it possible to fit the power of a datacenter right at the side of the user’s desk, while its scalable and efficient design enable the deployment of a Petascale facility in a fraction of the space and with operating costs that are significantly lower than for traditional HPC solutions.

About Eurotech

Eurotech, a global company listed on the Milan stock exchange (Borsa Italiana) integrates hardware, software, services, and expertise to deliver HPC platforms, embedded computing platforms and sophisticated systems to leading OEMs, system integrators, and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size, and reduces coding complexity to bring high performance computers, sensors, embedded boards and platforms, and stand-alone systems to market, specializing in research, defense, healthcare, security, transportation, energy, and industrial segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing, and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify embedded computing so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

Media Contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com

Incredible Features Chooses Momapix to Enhance Their Agency Presence on the Web

Posted By pivari

Date: March 30th, 2010

Category: Informatics

Incredible FeaturesBased in Los Angeles, the international features agency, Incredible Features has chosen MomaPIX as its web management and sales platform.

Rome, 8 march 2010 - In the early days of August 2009, Stacy Linh, Incredible Features’ Creative Director, found a message in her mailbox entitled “MomaPIX - the service tailored for photo and video agencies”.
Mistaking it for spam which escaped the control of the corporate firewall, Stacy was about to delete it when her curiosity was aroused by the title. She opened the message and began to investigate. From that day on, the relationship between Stacy and MomaSoft has been uninterrupted.

After the first email, asking for clarification, MomaSoft immediately sent an invitation to a web meeting for a presentation of the service.
Stacy said, “In September we spent a week in which we met on the internet every day, sometimes the meetings lasted for hours sometimes it took a few minutes. I realized that I was dealing with people technically valid and seriously involved in seeking appropriate solutions to my needs.

Incredible Features offers a unique collection of still and moving images for editorial and commercial usage. Stacy was looking for a means to permit the agency to manage and sell both videos and photos. A month after the first email, in September 2009, Stacy decided that the time was ripe and so left Los Angeles and went to Rome for 4 days where they set up the final details and signed the contract.

Some days ago, we asked to Stacey to comment on her choice and on what has happened, six months after the contract signature:

“When deciding to update our agency website, we chose the Momapix system because of its built-in features and the ability to customize it to suit our specific needs. The Momapix team has been stellar and instrumental in supporting our growth”

Thanks to this agreement, MomaPIX continues to strengthen its role as the company to look to for all those agencies seeking a valuable new partner in enhancing the value of their photographic and video assets on the web.

About MomaSoft
MomaSoft is a global company based in Italy that develops and markets worldwide MomaPIX as its single product. MomaPIX PLUS is a photo management and e-commerce service for photo agencies and MomaPIX ONE is for photographers. With these two product categories, MomaSoft aims to become a leader in providing professional solutions for managing and marketing video and photographic archives on the web. MomaSoft is capable of providing an entire range of solutions and value added services that can easily meet any client’s requirements and can be adapted or developed to suit them.

Company Contacts:
MomaSoft srl
Tel: +39 06 45214668
info@momapix.com
www.momapix.com

About Incredible Features
Incredible Features is an international features news agency based in Los Angeles, syndicating to magazine and publishing markets in over twenty-five countries. Specializing in unique and unusual stories that cover diverse topics such as human interest, stunts, action, animals, business, people, celebrities and world-records, Incredible Features offers a unique collection of still and moving images for editorial and commercial usage.

Eurotech presents DuraNAS 1000 Rugged Network Attached Storage for harsh environment applications.

Posted By pivari

Date: March 2nd, 2010

Category: Informatics

DuraNAS 1000 rugged network attached storage (NAS) for harsh environment applications

Eurotech DuraNAS 1000Amaro (Italy), February 16th, 2010 – Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, announces availability of the DuraNAS 1000 rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS).

  • Ideal for Public Transportation, Security and Defense markets
  • Video surveillance and multimedia applications
  • Compact enclosure with standard M12 connector for data storage in a harsh environment
  • Up to 1 TB of storage – Solid State Disk versions – RAID 1 storage
  • POE: no need for an external power supply
  • Quick and easy setup thanks to its DHCP client interface
  • Fully compliant with EN 50155 for rolling stock installations
  • Wide operating temperature range

The DuraNAS 1000 provides reliable high capacity Network Attached Storage (NAS) to IP-based systems installed on rolling stocks as well as in all applications where a rugged device designed for harsh environment is required.

The DuraNAS 1000 is ideally suited to complement the DuraCOR-NVR video recording system by providing expandable and removable mass storage for compressed video data.

The DuraNAS 1000 is a network device which can be accessed from anywhere the network is accessible, even from remote locations.

An Ethernet interface to mass storage is a reliable interconnection technology in harsh environment applications where EMC and immunity to electromagnetic interference are key requirements. Long cables are supported and the inherent insulation of Ethernet increases the operational reliability of the DuraNAS 1000 compared to other technologies such as USB2.0.

A high-performance NAS controller chip is used to bridge two 2.5” form factor SATA HDDs to a 10/100Mbit Ethernet interface.

Extensive measures have been taken to ensure reliable operation under all conditions and compatibility with internationally respected standards. The sealed Ethernet I/O connector, a Power Over Ethernet (POE) power supply and a compact rugged mechanical enclosure increase field reliability.

The Eurotech NAS system is intended to be used together with an external DuraCOR NVR and provides storage for up to 30 days of compressed video. Two DuraNAS 1000 can be joined for redundancy or capacity expansion.

Contact sales@eurotech.com for updated availability and pricing information. For additional specifications or to download a product datasheet, visit http://www.eurotech.com.

About Eurotech
Eurotech is a global company based in Italy and with locations in Europe, North America and Asia. The Eurotech group develops and markets miniaturised computers for special uses (NanoPCs) and computers featuring major computing capacity (HPCs – High-Performance Computers). With these two product categories, Eurotech aims to become a leader in implementation of the pervasive computing infrastructure commonly known as Cloud, capable of enabling an entire range of activities and value-added services in the transport, defence, industrial, medical and scientific-research sectors.

Company contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com

Intel Atom-based Tactical Mission Computer Subsystem with MIL-STD-1553 Displayed by Parvus at AFCEA West

Posted By pivari

Date: February 8th, 2010

Category: Informatics

Eurotech Parvus Duracor820-ADuraCOR 820-A Optimized for Size, Weight and Power Constrained Unmanned Aerial & Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Computing Platforms

Amaro (ITALY), February 1, 2010. (ETH.MI) Eurotech subsidiary Parvus Corporation will preview a new MIL-COTS rugged mission computer subsystem based on the low-power Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor with Gigabit Ethernet and MIL-STD-1553 databus connectivity at Booth #1411 of the AFCEA/USNI West 2010 Conference. AFCEA West is the largest defense and technology exposition and conference on the West Coast, being held at the San Diego Convention Center Feb. 2-4

Optimally designed for Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-constrained military / aerospace vehicle and aircraft installations, the new DuraCOR 820-A small form-factor rugged processor delivers processing and multimedia performance comparable (or better) to Pentium M-based DuraCOR solutions, but with less power consumption, double the RAM memory capacity, and dual Flash Solid State Disks (SSDs). The system is equipped with a 28V high efficiency power supply compliant with MIL-STD-1275 and MIL-STD-704 voltages, spikes, and surges, which makes the unit compatible with not only airborne, but also military ground vehicle platforms. System I/O includes 1x Gigabit Ethernet, 1x MIL-STD-1553, 3x USB 2.0, 2x RS-232, 2x PS/2, 8 DIO, and VGA, which are brought out through lightweight, high-density MIL-38999-like connectors, making the product an ideal solution for a variety of unmanned and manned command and control (C2) applications.

The DuraCOR 820-A offers a compact mechanical design (~3lbs weight, ~ 3.0” height) very similar in form factor to flight-qualified legacy Parvus DuraCOR 820 systems currently deployed in unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and other military applications. The unit is fanless, conduction cooled and designed for use under extended temperature (-40 to +71C) and other demanding MIL-STD-810F environmental conditions (thermal, shock, vibration, altitude, humidity). The new 820-A model offers enhanced ingress protection from dust and water immersion, along with improved filtering and shielding from EMI/EMC conditions. The system is designed to meet and will undergo MIL-STD-810F and MIL-STD-461E environmental and emissions/susceptibility qualification testing as it prepares for production.

For application flexibility, the unit comes with a 4GB industrial SSD pre-loaded with a Linux or Windows Embedded operating system, as well as a 16 GB Compact Flash disk for file storage. The unit is based on a modular PC/104-Plus open architecture, making it possible to customize/special order and meet program-specific I/O requirements. For programs requiring additional I/O expansion capabilities, Parvus offers the DuraCOR 810 and DuraCOR 810-Duo platforms, which feature up to 6x PC104(+) expansion slots.

AVAILABILITY
The DuraCOR 820-A is currently in pre-production. Official pricing is not yet available. MIL-STD qualification testing should begin later in Q1 2010 with production to follow.

Company contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com
Sales: sales.it@eurotech.com

Greener, smarter, faster: Eurotech presents Aurora, the petascale HPC solution at SCO9 in Portland (USA)

Posted By pivari

Date: November 24th, 2009

Category: Informatics

Eurotech presents Aurora, the lean, smart supercomputing solution that can grow with less. With Aurora, users can now have a Supercomputing system that is light on the TCO and easy to scale up to the PetaFLOP and beyond.

Eurotech AuroraPortland, OR (USA) – 16 November 2009. Aurora has been designed to deliver more: more number crunching, more scalability, more energy savings and more compatibility with existing software applications and environments.
“Aurora is the smart system for a resource conscious world”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, Eurotech Group VP and CTO, “With Aurora it is possible to achieve unprecedented scalability and energy savings; in designing Aurora, we have taken a radical approach to efficiency, both in raw performance and in TCO management”.

Sporting the new Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor, Aurora is Intel® Cluster Ready Certified and offers the fullest compatibility with the existing X86 software applications and development tools.

“Intel® Cluster Ready certification reduces the risks and challenges of deployment and speeds time to productive results for highly scalable HPC Clusters” said Richard Dracott, General Manager, HPC, Intel . “By establishing a hardware and software basis for clustered systems, Intel Cluster Ready certification helps HPC users rapidly realize the great TCO and performance benefits of Xeon 5500 based Aurora clusters.”

Aurora delivers high end features, such as 100Gb/s cluster interconnect bandwidth per node, with a 60Gb/s 3D torus and a 40Gb/s Infiniband interface; multilevel synchronization networks for highly efficient scalability, and an on board, programmable accelerator that can be used to implement highly optimized algorithms.
Another exclusive feature is the ultra-precise liquid cooling system, which keeps the tightest control over the temperature of every component, ensuring the best operating conditions and exceptional savings compared to air cooling.
In Aurora, the traditional sources of failure have been removed: there are no mechanical parts, thanks to liquid cooling and the Intel® Solid State Disks; memory reliability and performance are exceptional thanks to a groundbreaking coupling technology and the multi-level monitoring and control system provides a flexible infrastructure to implement fault tolerance schemes.

Visit Eurotech Booth #745 at SC’09 2009 and check out the live demo of the Aurora Supercomputing system.

For more information please contact:
Giuliana Vidoni, Aurora Marketing & Communication (giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com)
Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager (walter.rinaldi@eurotech.com)

Eurotech S.p.A.
www.eurotech.com

Eurotech Launches Helios™ Platform, Industry’s First Programmable Edge Controller

Posted By pivari

Date: September 16th, 2009

Category: Informatics

Configurable Helios™ Platform Allows OEMs to Speed Time to Market with Industrial, Application-Ready DeviceEurotech Helios

Amaro (UD), Italy, 14 Sept 2009 - Eurotech Group, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, announces today that it is launching the highly configurable Helios™ edge controller platform. The Helios platform offers data access and control on the edge of the cloud, to aggregate and deliver data from edge devices, pervasive sensors, and distributed monitors to the network core for further analysis and action. The Helios platform offers the greatest possible flexibility:

  • Flexible hardware: Select an Intel Atom® Series Z5xx processor-based configuration, at up to 1.6 GHz with memory and video display options
  • Software options: Choose Windows Embedded Standard, Windows CE 6.0 or Wind River Linux 3.0 for the operating system.
  • Programmable: Quickly go-to-market with simple to use APIs offered within the Eurotech Everyware™ Software Framework (ESF)
  • Connectivity choices: Use wired or pre-certified wireless network services for devices for cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi access within the secure and rugged USB bay area.

The Eurotech Helios platform can be equipped with the Eurotech ESF middleware to offer the industry’s first easily programmable edge controller system. With ESF, OEMs have a Java-based middleware framework as a starting point for their application coding, leading to faster time to market and ultimately, future-proofing and greater market success.

“Combining our configurable hardware platform, Helios, with the ESF middleware gives Eurotech customers the greatest range of flexibility, in I/O options, connectivity choices, and object-oriented programming,” comments Arlen Nipper, President and CTO at Eurotech, Inc. “The Helios platform is the next step in our product progression, and gives our customers the ability to go to market quickly with proven embedded hardware and software technology in a truly application-ready and programmable package.”

“With the Helios platform, Eurotech launches a packaged device that makes it easy for OEMs to select Intel-based architectures for applications that are part of the 15 billion connected devices Intel sees in the near future,” said Joe Jensen, general manager, Embedded and Computing Division, Intel. “With software and hardware configurability, Eurotech offers leading Intel technology to give OEMs a high degree of flexibility to deliver medical, transportation, or industrial applications to precisely meet their users’ needs.”

Eurotech designs and manufactures a range of innovative embedded single board computers, application-ready platforms and configurable systems for customers who operate within the transportation, medical, communications, defense, security, and industrial industries.

The Helios platform will be generally available in the first quarter of 2010.

About Eurotech
Eurotech is a global leader in the design, development and production of application-ready embedded computers and systems. Eurotech architects systems that help companies bring their products to market quickly through the latest technologies with advanced graphics capabilities, low-power consumption, and robust functionality. Eurotech specializes in helping customers connect their applications to the latest available wireless, mobile and enabling technologies. Eurotech develops digital technologies aiming to create a better world by making everyday life safer and more comfortable, today and for tomorrow. For more information, please visit the Eurotech website at http://www.eurotech.com

Media Contacts

USA Eurotech Group
Hilary Tomasson Giuliana Vidoni
+1.301.490.4700 Ext. 113 +39.0433.485462
hilary.tomasson@eurotech.com g.vidoni@eurotech.com
Europe Asia
Jenny Shepperd Tomi Hanninen
+44.1223.403421 +358.9.477.888.0
jenny.shepperd@eurotech.com tomi.hanninen@eurotech.fi

Eurotech Presents Aurora, the New Petascale Supercomputer that Sets a Landmark in High Performance Computing

Posted By pivari

Date: July 7th, 2009

Category: Informatics

Eurotech AuroraEurotech, one of the leading companies in Embedded and High Performance Computing, presents Aurora, the revolutionary HPC system for installations of any size, up to multiple PetaFLOPS

Hamburg (Germany), June 23rd, 2009 – Eurotech, a leading provider of special purpose computing platforms, today unveiled Aurora, a revolutionary supercomputer that sets the pace for performance and efficiency. Aurora is packed with the most advanced solutions, such as quad-core high performance Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors series, 100Gbps per node bandwidth capacity, programmable on-node acceleration, multi-level synchronization networks and direct liquid cooling. Aurora sets a new standard of excellence in high performance computing.

“The Aurora supercomputer breaks the rules by removing the bottlenecks that limit the performance, efficiency and scalability of traditional systems”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, CTO and VP of Eurotech. “Its advanced technology permits unprecedented effective performance, sets a record for footprint reduction and radically cuts the total cost of ownership for installations of any size, with energy savings as high as 60%.”

“The Aurora project is the result of a multi-group effort and we are excited that the unique features of the Intel Xeon 5500 series processor have become the base for such an innovative supercomputer system architecture. The Intel Xeon 5500 series brings up the bar considerably by turning the chip into a intelligent, adaptable part of the server solution,” said Richard Dracott, general manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing Group.

Aurora takes full advantage of the latest high performance, power efficient Intel Xeon 5500 processors series.

The new generation processor is Intel’s most revolutionary server processor since the introduction of the Intel Pentium® Pro processor 14 years ago. It can automatically adjust to specified energy usage levels, speed-up data center transactions and customer database queries thanks to new features such as Intel Turbo Boost which increases system performance based on the user’s needs, and Integrated Power Gates that turn off unused cores to save electricity and reduce heat. In particular, Intel® Turbo Boost is a feature that allows the processor to operate at higher speeds if a workload needs it and as long the processor isn’t operating above its power and thermal limits. This allows the CPU to dynamically deliver additional performance above the base frequency if needed.

The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series also takes intelligent power to a new level with up to 15 automated operating states. These create significant improvements in chip power management by adjusting system power consumption based on real-time throughput and without sacrificing performance.

In addition, the user-friendly software environment is fully compatible with most existing HPC codes and tools, and requires minimal or no porting for near optimal performance. Extra acceleration is available using the integrated programmable accelerator.

Eurotech introduces the Unified Network Architecture™ (UNA) in Aurora, which offers dramatic advantages over conventional HPC systems by radically improving performance and feature set. At the same time, the UNA reduces the number of physical and logical layers for exceptionally low memory to memory latency.

In each node, the UNA integrates a 60Gbps switchless 3D torus, a 40Gbps switched Infiniband® network, three multilevel synchronization networks and a programmable network processor. User-programmable logic transparently enables the optimal routing of data packets and manages the multilevel synchronization networks, for seamless scalability up to multiple PetaFLOPS.

Another exciting innovation is the Aurora direct liquid cooling system, which eliminates vibrations and rotating parts while providing precise control over component temperature. By removing the typical sources of failure in traditional HPC systems – even the on-node storage is solid-state – and thanks to the embedded redundant design, Aurora is exceptionally reliable.

Aurora is one of the greenest HPC systems on the market: its efficient design is both light on the energy bill, eliminating the additional costs of traditional cooling, and also makes it possible to squeeze as much number crunching as possible from every Watt. Moreover, Aurora is environmentally conscious and so compact that even PetaFLOPS installations may be possible in existing locations, allowing a sustainable growth in performance and preservation of existing assets.

Come and see a live Aurora demo at ISC 09 (www.supercomp.de), Intel® Booth 430

Developed by the Alliance of Eurotech, PSI RAS, RSC SKIF with support from Intel® : “Aurora”, “SKIF series 4”, and “SKIF-Aurora” are different trademarks of the same product in different geographical areas

For more information, please visit the Eurotech website at www.eurotech.com/aurora

Companies contacts:

Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com
Eurotech USA Eurotech Europe
Hilary Tomasson Jenny Shepperd
+1.301.490.4700 int. 113 +44.1223.403421
hilary.tomasson@eurotech.com jenny.shepperd@eurotech.com
Eurotech South and South East Asia Eurotech Japan
Tomi Hanninen Masaki Takahashi
+358.9.477.888.0 +81.904.5798683
tomi.hanninen@eurotech.fi takahasi@advanet.co.jp
Intel Corporation Italia S.p.A. Intel EMEA Intel USA
Nicola Procaccio Mike Bonello Nick Knupffer
+39.02.575441    
nicola.procaccio@intel.com mike.bonello@intel.com nick.knupffer@intel.com