FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Ohio Supercomputer
Center provides new remote visualization capabilities
to Ohio’s academic and industry researchers
with the delivery of dedicated multi-GPU visualization
solutions
.
PARSIPPANY, NJ -
(September 30th, 2009) – PNY®
Technologies and James River Technical, Inc, (JRTI)
announced today that the Ohio Supercomputer Center
(OSC) has taken delivery of multiple NVIDIA®
Quadro® Plex 2200 S4 systems to be integrated
into its “lights out” operation room
at the State of Ohio Computing Center. These dedicated
multi-GPU visual computing solutions will allow
Ohio’s academic and industry researchers,
for the first time, to visualize and interact with
extremely large models remotely from their classrooms
or labs.
OSC needed to increase its interactive
visualization capacity to meet the needs of its
clients such as veterinary students probing the
depths of animal anatomy or researchers investigating
the histology of cancers. To meet this demand, OSC
built powerful visualization nodes associated with
its IBM Cluster 1350, which are used for remote
and batch visualization as well as GP/GPU computing.
OSC is particularly excited about the remote capabilities
because it allows a much broader range of clients
to take advantage of advanced visualization, in
effect giving them the power of a supercomputer
from their desktop. OSC relies on its new NVIDIA
Quadro Plex 2200 S4 visual computing systems to
power these GPU nodes because they deliver massive
computational power : 16GB memory, CUDA parallel
computing processor (960 parallel processing cores),
and 64 bit floating point support.
“OSC chose the NVIDIA Quadro Plex solutions
for their optimized support of CG, GLSL, CUDA and
OpenCL”, said Don Stredney, Director, OSC
Interface lab. “This will allow OSC to further
explore both interactive volume rendering of extremely
large data sets, through CUDA programming, and additional
uses in remote visualization. Now, numerous faculty,
staff, and students will have access to the unique
architectural environment to expand current coursework
as well as research in the areas of extremely large
scale image processing, molecular dynamics, data
mining, scientific and information visualization.”
JRTI, a company specializing in
delivering innovative and cost effective solutions,
collaborated with OSC on building the new visualization
nodes as well as upgrading their existing visualization
cluster. According to Leo Iantosca, CEO, James River
Technical, Inc., “JRTI worked closely with
the OSC to identify the optimal solution for their
needs. The NVIDIA Quadro Plex units are uniquely
qualified due to both the GPU compute and visualization
capabilities that they deliver. We’re excited
to have collaborated with our partner PNY to provide
this unique solution.”
“Once again OSC leads the
way in advanced visualization. By using the NVIDIA
Quadro Plex systems to offer remote interactive
advanced visualization, OSC is providing Ohio’s
academic and industry researchers with the high
performance computational resources they need to
break new ground in a variety of disciplines.”
said Jeff Medeiros, Director of Marketing, PNY Technologies,
Inc.
PNY along with JRTI and additional
partners will be exhibiting at the GPU Technology
Conference held in San Jose, CA September 30 –
October 2nd, 2009. To schedule an appointment at
the conference or to obtain more information about
NVIDIA Quadro by PNY professional graphics solutions
contact: Jeff Medeiros, Director of Marketing at
PNY jmedeiros@pny.com or Jeff Fettig, Director,
Innovative Solutions Group, James River Technical,
Inc, JFettig@jrti.com.
About PNY Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1985, PNY Technologies®, Inc.
is a leading supplier and marketer of NVIDIA®
Quadro® by PNY Technologies professional graphics
solutions. The company also offers a full line of
high-end memory upgrade modules, flash media, USB
flash drives, portable hard drives and flash peripherals.
Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains
facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. For
more information, please visit www.pny.com.
About Ohio Supercomputer Center
OSC is Ohio's high performance computing and networking
center. Established in 1987 by the Ohio Board of
Regents, the Center provides scientific computing,
networking, educational outreach, and information
technology resources to state and national high
performance computing and networking groups. OSC
empowers its academic, industrial, and government
partners to make Ohio the education and technology
state of the future. www.osc.edu
About JRTI
James River Technical, (JRTI) delivers (HPC) solutions
to the Academic, Government, and Commercial marketplaces.
JRTI has delivered HPC solutions to a diverse customer
base over the last 10 years. JRTI is focused on
delivering HPC solutions that provide the most cost
effective path to research discovery and insight.
JRTI's coverage model serves clients throughout
North America. Please visit us www.jrti.com.
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