Deskside Development System: SC072-PDS

The world’s most complete and energy-efficient Personal Development System

Put the power of 72 processors to work for you, at your desk

The SiCortex SC072-PDS™ Personal Development System provides a powerful, easy-to-use development environment for parallel programming. Packaged with Linux, the operating system of choice for HPC, and a plethora of open systems tools and libraries, the PDS harnesses the power of 72 processors while using less electricity than a typical PC. Installation is quick and easy: plug it in next to your desk and start coding ready-to-scale parallel applications.

Development Features:

  • 72-core SiCortex cluster integrated into a Redhat Enterprise Linux workstation
  • Unified Open Source development environment including the PathScale Optimizing Compilers for Fortran, C and C++
  • Rich debugging infrastructure, including memory debugger, GDB, and TotalView parallel debugger (license required)
  • The industry’s leading integrated, easy-to-use parallel performance analysis tool suite, including PAPI support and sophisticated TAU and Vampir (license required) visualization tools
  • Rich selection of optimized open source scientific libraries for the SiCortex architecture, including fast math and string libraries, FFTW, PETSc, ATLAS, Scalapack and more.
  • Optimized MPI implementation delivering world-class performance
  • 100% Open Source; source code available for everything
  • 1000's of additional open source packages available through 3rd party repositories
  • Extensive online documentation library and active user forum

Hardware Features:

  • Whisper-quiet desk-side package; draws approximately 300 Watts from a standard office electrical outlet
  • 48 GByte and 96 GByte memory systems available
  • 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • 3 PCI Express slots
  • 250 GByte disk drive, expandable to 6 industry standard disk drives
  • Advanced SiCortex interconnect fabric
  • Note: monitor, keyboard and mouse not included

Questions? Contact us at PDS@sicortex.com, or call Rich Dischler at 978-897-0214, ext. 220.