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Silicon Mechanics Showcases Computing and Storage Solutions at TechKnowFile Conference

Tailoring high-performance computing and storage solutions for reseachers

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it will be showcasing its high-performance computing, storage, general computing, and server solutions at the University of Toronto's TechKnowFile 2013, which will be held May 9-10, 2013 at the University's downtown St. George campus. Silicon Mechanics is a gold sponsor of the event, which provides IT professionals and administrative staff from academia a forum in which to discuss, share, and disseminate innovative and pioneering views on recent IT trends and developments. News Release

Knome and Silicon Mechanics Form Partnership to Bring the knoSYS™ 100 to Market

Unique turnkey cluster appliance offers privacy, security, and file transfer speed

Knome Inc. and Silicon Mechanics, Inc. today announced their partnership to bring the knoSYS™100, an end-to-end human genome interpretation system, to market in Q2, 2013. As per the terms of the partnership, Knome will supply the core genomics software for the system, including its knoSOFT™ genome interpretation application and kGAP™ NGS informatics engine. Silicon Mechanics will construct and support the system's turn-key grid computing hardware platform, a Lustre®-based storage system, and server systems built around the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 product family. News release

Silicon Mechanics Showcases Enterprise-Class, Software-Defined Storage at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

Take a ride on zStax StorCore 104 best-in-class storage

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it will be showcasing its zStax StorCore 104 enterprise-class, software-defined storage solution at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, April 9-11, 2013 at the World Trade Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, Booth #339. Silicon Mechanics invites Bio-IT attendees to "Take a ride on zStax StorCore 104" and see how it delivers high-performance, scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy vendors. With a growing presence in medical research and higher education, Silicon Mechanics will be highlighting features that make the zStax StorCore ideal for electronic medical record storage. News Release

Silicon Mechanics Supplies zStax Unified Storage Appliance to Global Legal Discovery

Performance and reliability at a fraction of the cost of legacy tiered storage

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it has supplied its zStax unified storage appliance, powered by NexentaStor, to Global Legal Discovery, an Atlanta, Georgia-based firm that provides electronic discovery (eDiscovery) services. Silicon Mechanics configured a unified storage appliance specifically tailored to meet Global Legal's needs, using a software-defined storage model, at a fraction of the cost of legacy tiered storage. News Release

Tufts University Wins High-Performance Computer Cluster Research Grant from Silicon Mechanics

Multidisciplinary team will use cluster to understand processing of patterning information

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, is the winner of a complete high-performance computer cluster donated by Silicon Mechanics and its vendor partners as part of its second annual Research Cluster Grant competition. Tufts will use the cluster as a key component of an exciting, multidisciplinary effort to transform the way biological pattern formation is investigated. Their long-term mission is to integrate computer science, molecular biology, and biophysics to understand the processing of patterning information in living systems. News Release

Silicon Mechanics Announces Sponsorship of Cascadia IT Conference

Regional gathering focuses on education for open source system administrators

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it will sponsor the Seattle Area System Administration Guild's (SASAG's) opening reception at Cascadia IT, an annual regional conference for up to 150 computer and network administration professionals from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. Cascadia IT will take place March 15-16, 2013, at the Hotel Deca, in Seattle, Washington. Silicon Mechanics will be hosting the conference's opening reception on behalf of SASAG. In addition, Silicon Mechanics will be showcasing its zStax unified storage appliance and high-performance computing, integration, and general computing products and services. News Release

Kelly Colucci Joins Silicon Mechanics as Technical Support Manager

Respected leader of support teams is dedicated to customer satisfaction

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that Kelly Colucci has joined the company as technical support manager. As the leader of the organization's customer service operations, Mr. Colucci will be at the forefront of fulfilling the "Expert included" promise and guiding principle, which defines Silicon Mechanics and differentiates it in the marketplace. He will be responsible for building a support team totally invested in complete customer satisfaction. News Release

Silicon Mechanics to Showcase and Demonstrate zStax Open Storage Solution Powered by Nexentastor™ at SCaLE 11x

Real-time demonstration of appliance featuring enterprise storage features at mid-tier prices

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. will be highlighting and demonstrating its zStax open architecture storage solutions based on NexentaStor™ at SCALE 11x, the Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo, which will be held February 22-24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport, Booth #2. News release

Silicon Mechanics Announces It Will Provide Shared Storage for Virtualization as a Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance Partner

Offering expert pre-sales consultation and advanced technology to decrease storage costs

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it has been designated as a Cloud Builder Alliance Partner by Seagate a worldwide leader in storage solutions. News Release

Susan Lewis Joins Silicon Mechanics as Director of Product Management

Hardware expertise will help extend the company's reputation as a solution integrator

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that Susan Lewis has joined the company as director of product management. With more than 20 years of experience at prominent industry-leading hardware and software companies, she will help build Silicon Mechanics' superior solutions, position the company for growth, and ensure exceptional customer service as part of the "Expert included" motto and guiding principle that defines Silicon Mechanics and differentiates it in the marketplace. News release

Silicon Mechanics Wins Intel Custer Ready Explorer Award

Award salutes commitment to turnkey cluster solutions

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it has been awarded the 2012 Intel Cluster Ready Explorer Award. Presented at the annual Intel® Cluster Ready Partner Appreciation Awards held during Supercomputing 2012, this award recognizes Silicon Mechanics' commitment to high-quality turnkey cluster solutions. News Release

Silicon Mechanics Signs Letter of Intent to Collaborate with InkTank on CEPH: The Future of Storage™

Unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability, and scalability

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it has signed a letter of intent to collaborate with Inktank, the company delivering Ceph ­ the massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system designed to run on commodity-based storage servers. News Release

Silicon Mechanics Announces that it Now Offers the New Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor

Parallelize applications with higher than ever aggregate performance

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it now offers the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor, based on Intel® Many Integrated Cores technology. Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors deliver higher-than-ever aggregate performance for highly parallel applications, and eliminate much of the need for dual-programming architecture.News release

Silicon Mechanics now offers NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator

Designed for high throughput of both dual- and single-precision workloads

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it now offers the new NVIDIA® Tesla® K20 GPU Computing Accelerator in its hybrid architecture server product line. The new ultra-efficient Kepler-based GPU is designed for high throughput of both dual- and single-precision workloads. It is ideal for climate and weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided engineering, computational physics, biochemistry simulations, and computational finance. News release

Silicon Mechanics Now Offers AMD OPTERON™ 6300 Series Processors

Balances performance, scalability, and cost effectiveness to help lower total cost of ownership

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that that it now offers the new AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series processors (NYSE: AMD), which deliver superior performance and scalability for virtualized server platforms central to private and public cloud deployments, big data systems, and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. The new processors are now available in most of Silicon Mechanics' Rackform nServ server configurations.News release

Silicon Mechanics Announces it is Now a Premium Reseller of Nexentastor Open Storage Solution

Superior customer service and "Expert included" pledge key to selection as top tier partner

Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announces that it is now a premium reseller of NexentaStor, the industry-standard, software-only, open architecture, hardware-agnostic storage solution, which provides enterprise storage features at mid-tier prices. Nexenta, the leader in Software-defined Storage, granted Silicon Mechanics premium status based on its "Expert included" pledge, which takes customer service and consultation to a whole new level, and one highly valued by Nexenta. News Release


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