Exludus Technologies Will Showcase European Market Momentum At ISC2006

SPECIAL COVERAGE FROM ISC2006 - At the ISC2006 international supercomputer conference in Dresden, Germany, eXludus Technologies plans to tout the growing market momentum, especially in Europe, for the company's RepliCator data provisioning software. Bielefeld University's CeBiTec unit recently purchased RepliCator licences for their 256-processor (128 nodes) Sun Microsystems Sun Fire cluster based on AMD Opteron processors. CeBiTec is already seeing three times faster throughput for their bioinformatics workload, according to Stephen Perrenod, eXludus' vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. The CeBiTec is a central scientific institution dedicated to interdisciplinary research in life sciences. The University of York (United Kingdom), a member of the White Rose Grid, has acquired RepliCator data provisioning software for use on their new cluster as part of a collaborative agreement with eXludus, Perrenod said. The White Rose Grid operates under the auspices of the White Rose University Consortium, an affiliation of the three Yorkshire Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield. In May 2006, eXludus reported that the RepliCator software product accelerated run times more than ten-fold over NFS and five-fold over a dedicated cluster file system, on a cluster located at AMD headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. In a separate medical imaging test at a U.S. university, RepliCator performed eight times faster than NFS. "We are excited that our initial customers in Europe and around the world are reporting substantial benefits in their day-to-day operations from RepliCator's data broadcasting and data provisioning capabilities," said eXludus Technologies founder and CEO Benoît Marchand. "RepliCator is providing excellent ROI when incorporated into their existing infrastructures." eXludus also recently announced that high performance computing (HPC) industry veteran Shahin Khan joined the company's board of directors, where he is serving alongside notables including Wolfgang Gentzsch. Gentzsch is the coordinator of the D-Grid, Germany's national e-science infrastructure initiative. eXludus hired another well-known industry figure, Robert Nikora, as vice president of Americas Sales. At ISC2006, eXludus will be available at booth D15.