Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:33:22 -0500
To: lwn@lwn.net
From: Mary Beth West <mwest@LNScom.com>
Subject: API NetWorks Unveils The World's Most Powerful 1U Server


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SC 2000, Booth Number: 608

API NetWorks Unveils CS20, The World's Most Powerful 1U Server

Industry's First Pizza Box-Sized, Dual-Processor Alpha Server Packs 140
GFLOPS of Compute Power in a Standard Rack, Delivering the Power of a
World-Class Supercomputer

SuperComputing 2000, Dallas, TX, November 6, 2000 - API NetWorks, Inc., a
leading developer of high-performance, high-density technologies, today
introduced the CS20, the world's most powerful server in a 1U package and
the company's most advanced platform for computer clustering. The CS20 is
the industry's first rack-optimized, 1U, dual-processor Alpha server and
gives the high-performance computing (HPC) and Internet community the
ability to scale clusters into state-of-the-art supercomputer facilities,
providing the most economic solution with the minimum computer room
footprint.

"API NetWorks creates the building blocks for the world's most powerful
computing clusters, and our CS20 revolutionizes the cluster computing
world," said Gerry Talbot, president and CTO of API NetWorks.  "Prior to
its development, no one would have thought it possible to pack the
computing power of a large supercomputer in such a dense package.  Every
aspect of the CS20 has been designed with the requirements of
high-performance computing users in mind."

The CS20 will be used to build advanced Web servers and render farms and as
a cost-effective platform in creating clustered equivalents of
supercomputers for large scale facilities, grand challenge problems and
complex research.

"Our customers need supercomputing power to run the computationally
intensive codes used to solve their real world problems, including
increasing fuel efficiency in commercial aircraft by improving jet engine
turbines, looking for extraterrestrial life, determining the structure of
the organic molecules that go into pharmaceuticals, computing the path of
weather systems and testing our country's defense without firing a shot,"
said Stephen Fried, president of Microway, Inc. "We use Alphas for our
high-end computational engines because the platform offers the highest
floating point performance and the fastest inter-processor connection
speed. The CS20 has the highest floating point density of any general
purpose product that has come to market in the history of computers."

Key features and functionality of the CS20 include:

Fast "Over-the-Network" cluster deployment
o "Network aware" Linux in the firmware boots directly at power on --
minimizing start up and recovery times
o Dual on-board Ethernet controllers, use of Disk and 2 PCI slots are
optional -- enabling simple, minimal deployment
o Can exploit all available Linux drivers -- enabling easy configuration of
custom systems
o Advanced remote management capabilities -- greatly facilitating
installation, re-configuration, management and monitoring

 Most computing power in 1U form factor
o 3.3 GFLOPS (billion floating point operations per second) -- allowing
advanced applications to run faster than ever before
o Dual 833 MHz Alphas -- no other 1U system in the world offers dual Alpha
processor support

 Optimized for building high performance clusters
o Scales to 42 CS20s in each standard rack --  creating "supercomputing"
power and performance with minimum real estate
o 140 GFLOPS of numerical computing power per standard rack -- meaning a
Teraflops scale facility can be housed in just 8 racks

"Performance and space efficiency are priorities for clustered system
developers. This high-density rack mount server provides a solid building
block for the creation of reliable high-performance, scalable and
manageable Alpha Linux clusters in a small foot print," said Bill
Claybrook, research director, Linux and Open Source, at Aberdeen Group.
"This cost-effective server solution is ideal for government, education and
scientific communities, as well as for Internet solutions where hardware
real estate is at a premium."

The CS20 will be available in Q1 of 2001.

About API NetWorks, Inc.
Addressing the demand for increased memory and I/O bandwidth, API NetWorks'
high-performance, high-density component and server technologies are ideal
for today's high-performance computing (HPC) and network infrastructure
markets.  API NetWorks' industry-recognized design team is committed to
working with leading companies to deliver the highest performing, scalable
solutions available for OEMs, VARs and system integrators.  For more
information about API NetWorks and product offerings, see
www.api-networks.com.

Mary Beth West
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f:  617.577.9888
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