Terra Soft Offers Xserve Bioinformatics Cluster

LOVELAND, Colorado - 8 February 2006 - Terra Soft Solutions, the leading developer of integrated Power Architecture Linux solutions today announced the release of a mobile, pre-configured 8-node Xserve bioinformatics cluster.

The Y-Bio Cluster is a natural follow-on offering to Y-Bio, Terra Soft's bioinformatics solution that combines over 100 genomics sequencing applications into a single, managed interface. Y-Bio Cluster enables bioinformaticists to conduct research in the time required to apply power, log-in, and upload data. No configuration or system administration experience is required. Terra Soft ships the cluster with the base user accounts pre-configured and pre-tested by the end-user via remote connection.

"The Apple G5 Xserve running Y-HPC is an ideal platform for genomics research, taking advantage of the 970's incredible 32-bit performance and light-weight, flexible Linux OS," said Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions. "In addition, we have bundled Cluster Resource's Moab, an elegant, professional cluster workload management solution that does not require the user to be a cluster administration expert."

Moab Cluster Suite (R) eliminates the complexity of cluster management so users with limited experience can benefit from the power of a cluster. Through Moab, Y-Bio Cluster users submit and manage workload via the Web interface. Moab empowers the cluster administrator to schedule, report, and monitor jobs; visually track architecture, OS, status, and CPU utilization; reserve, on-line / off-line connectivity, and cycle power nodes through a single desktop Java application. Both user and admin tools function with OSX, Windows, and Linux desktops with little to no training.

"We are pleased that Terra Soft came to us with request for our support of their bioinformatics cluster," said Michael Jackson, President of Cluster Resources. "As our Moab solution runs on many of the Top500.org clusters, we believe it provides great value for Terra Soft's unique combination of Power hardware, the Linux OS, and a well integrated bioinformatics package."