Press Release(s) 2007 - 2009 Release Date Subject Oct 13, 2009 Colfax International Unveils World's First 8 NVIDIA Tesla GPU Server; Delivers Supercomputing Performance at a Lower Cost, Power and Footprint - Colfax CXT8000 offers nearly 8 Teraflops in a single 4U server Sunnyvale, CA. - Oct 13, 2009 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully-customizable, high-performance computing solutions, today introduced the world's first server featuring up to 8 NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060 GPUs. The Colfax CXT8000 supports up to 8 CPU cores and 1920 GPU cores with nearly 8 Teraflops of peak single precision GPU performance in a single 4U system. more...PDF Aug 12, 2009 Colfax International Offers Two New Low-Cost HPC Cluster Computing Bundles - Partners with Mellanox and Platform Computing to bring Highly-Efficient Computing to Organizations of All Sizes Sunnyvale, CA. - Aug 12, 2009 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully-customizable, high-performance computing solutions, today announced the availability of two new low-cost HPC cluster computing bundles, which include InfiniBand switches and adapters provided by Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), and Platform Computing’s Platform Cluster Manager. more...PDF May 08, 2009 Colfax International Delivers Unprecedented Power to PixBlitz Studios with a Real-Time HD Video Processing System - The combined solution is a result of an on going close working relationship between Colfax International, NVIDIA and PixBlitz Studios. The companies together combine a vast knowledge in rendering software, GPU acceleration and reliable systems customization that brings the supercomputer capabilities to online video users. Sunnyvale, CA. - May 08, 2009 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully-customizable, high-performance computing solutions, today announced their collaboration with PixBlitz Studios to create a high-end solution for broadcast and online premium video content. Colfax's GPU-based high-performance systems enable a rich set of real-time video processing applications using PixBlitz's highly parallel and scalable software architecture for photo-realistic video rendering. The system incorporates NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU Computing processors, NVIDIA® Quadro® SDI, and AJA LHe for maximum rendering performance and efficiency. more...PDF May 05, 2009 Colfax International Unveils NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Clusters; Delivers Supercomputing Performance at a Lower Cost, Power and Footprint - New GPU-based clusters help research institutes, universities and enterprises accelerate research and business outcomes Sunnyvale, CA. - May 05, 2009 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully-customizable, high-performance computing solutions, today announced immediate availability of four fully integrated Colfax CXT6000 series of NVIDIA Tesla GPU and Intel® Xeon® / AMD Opteron™ CPU based clusters that offer customers massive parallel processing capabilities to speed calculations and solve problems impossible with current computing approaches. more...PDF Apr. 30, 2009 Colfax International Accelerates Neuroscience Engineering at Evolved Machines with a New 40TFlop System - Colfax's Advanced Design of GPU-Focused, 10,136-Core Parallel Computing Facility to Further the Artificial Evolution of Neural Circuitry Sunnyvale, CA. - Apr. 30, 2009 - Colfax International today announced that the company has configured and installed a fully-customized, GPU-based high-performance system for Evolved Machines that will accelerate the development of artificial neural circuits for a new generation of devices in artificial olfaction and vision. The system incorporates 42 NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU Computing processors, controlled by 14 Quad-Core AMD Phenom® conventional microprocessors, and has a nominal computation capacity of over 40 TFlops. more...PDF Apr. 28, 2009 Colfax International Unveils New DigiStation Line of Ultra High Performance Workstations for Video Producers - The Colfax DigiStation CX980 based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors and pre-loaded with Sony's professional software is a compact multimedia production studio in a box. Sunnyvale, CA. - Apr. 28, 2009 - Colfax International today announced a collaboration with AMD and Sony Creative Software to offer video producers a dynamic new hardware platform to fully realize their creative potential. more...PDF Feb. 23, 2009 Colfax International selected as Authorized Integrator of Dolphin Products - Provides integrated solutions for remote PCI Express IO and accelerator scaling Sunnyvale, CA. - Feb. 23, 2009 - Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a global provider of high performance PCI Express interconnect solutions, today announced that Colfax International has been signed as an Authorized Integrator for its expansion products. Dolphin's PCI Express expansion products are exclusively available through its Authorized Integrators ensuring the highest level of customer support including validation, benchmarking, customization and integration. more...PDF Nov. 18 2008 Colfax International Launches Tesla Personal Supercomputer - Colfax CXT3000 Leverages NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Deliver Cluster Level Performance to the Desktop, at a Fraction of the Cost Sunnyvale, CA. - Nov. 18, 2008 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully-customizable, high-performance computing solutions, today announced the launch of a personal supercomputer, engineered to deliver unprecedented computing power to the desktop. The Colfax CXT3000 Personal Supercomputer (PSC) leverages NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060 GPU Computing Processors, offering massive parallel processing capabilities to speed calculations and solve problems impossible with current computing approaches. Powered by 720 cores and 3 Teraflops of peak performance, the CXT3000 delivers cluster level computing performance - up to 250* times faster than standard PCs and workstations - right at your desk. more...PDF Nov. 18 2008 Colfax International and RNA Networks Partner to Deliver Breakthrough Performance Gains - RNA Networks' Memory Virtualization Platform Improves HPC Performance and Analysis Portland, OR - Nov. 18, 2008 - RNA networks, a memory virtualization company that dramatically improves performance by accelerating IT applications, today announced its partnership with Colfax International, a global supplier of customized high performance enterprise computing systems. The relationship will expand channel availability for RNA's Memory Virtualization Platform and further strengthen Colfax's high performance computing application acceleration solutions. Colfax addresses the needs of customers whose performance depends on optimally customized solutions engineered for high performance, reliability, serviceability and rapid deployment. RNA, with its Memory Virtualization Platform, makes application memory a shared network resource, further helping Colfax deliver unmatched performance at scale to organizations utilizing HPC applications. more...PDF Nov. 13, 2008 Colfax Servers Boost Performance and Energy-Efficiency With New Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors - “AMD is pleased to join Colfax International in its vision to deliver the latest technology to help its customers reach new levels of performance." said John Fruehe, director, Server and Workstation Division, AMD (NYSE: AMD). Sunnyvale, CA. - Nov. 13, 2008 - Colfax International, a leading provider of fully customizable, high-performance enterprise computing solutions, today enhanced its lineup of multi-core-based servers and workstations built to provide significantly better performance-per-watt. Based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, which is built on 45nm process technology, the enhanced Colfax CX Series systems deliver greater energy efficiency, improved functionality and increased capabilities without altering existing IT infrastructure. more...PDF Oct. 16, 2008 NVIDIA INTRODUCES NVIDIA QUADRO CX -THE ACCELERATOR FOR ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4 - “Photoshop users are always looking for maximum performance, and we recognized that tapping into the power of the GPU is one way to give it to them,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Professional Digital Imaging at Adobe. Santa Clara, CA. - Oct. 16, 2008 - Today NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, the NVIDIA® Quadro® CX. This new GPU provides creative professionals with a faster, better, more reliable way to maximize their creativity. Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. “Adobe is at the forefront of the Visual Computing Revolution,” said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVDIA. “CS4’s GPU features are sending shockwaves through the creative industry.” more...PDF Sept. 18, 2008 QLogic Teams with AMD to Establish HPC Partner Developer Center - Environment for Vendors, Partners and Customers to Optimize HPC Applications ALISO VIEJO, CA. - Sept. 18, 2008 - QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced that AMD (NYSE:AMD) is now a sponsor of the QLogic® NETtrack™ Developer Center. The QLogic HPC NETtrack Developer Center is designed to provide partners and customers with the high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to test, profile and certify their applications on high core count clusters that utilize the industry's latest AMD64 processors and QLogic interconnect technologies. ...The cluster is comprised of 32 Colfax International CX-1266 compute nodes, each containing two Quad-Core AMD Opteron Model 2360 processors running at 2.5 GHz, for a total of 256 cores. The cluster is offered to measure and optimize towards a variety of factors influencing application performance, including sustainable memory bandwidth and latency. This latest cluster has 512GB RAM, and each compute node includes QLogic True-Scale InfiniBand interconnect, 16GB RAM and 80GB local storage and also features the QLogic SilverStorm 9080 InfiniBand Switch providing the bandwidth and ultra-low latency for today's demanding applications. "Colfax International's latest CX-1266 servers based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers offer best-in-class scalability to achieve such impressive results for commercial enterprise-class technical computing solutions," said Gautam Shah, president and CEO of Colfax International. "As AMD and QLogic successfully respond to the needs for a well balanced multi-core platform, Colfax International is fully aligned and proud to be part of the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center." more...PDF Sept. 2, 2008 Colfax International Enables High-Performance Computing In Office Environments, Introduces Quiet Compute Cluster With Active Noise Control Technology - New innovative offering will foster noise-free workgroup and departmental clustering, accelerating business and research outcomes SUNNYVALE, CA. - Sept. 2, 2008 - Colfax International today introduced Colfax Quiet Compute Cluster (QCC) with Silentium's Active Noise Control (ANC) technology that is expected to significantly reduce noise generated by servers and networking equipment mounted in rack enclosures. more...PDF July 15, 2008 Mellanox Establishes High Performance Computing Advisory Council. - Over 40 Vendors and End-Users Pledge to Accelerate HPC Innovation, Market Expansion and Support Network SANTA CLARA, CA. and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - July 15, 2008 - Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced the formation of the HPC Advisory Council (http://www.mellanox.com/partners/HPC_Advisory_Council.php), a distinguished high-performance computing ecosystem that includes best-in-class original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), strategic technology suppliers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and selected end-users across the entire range of HPC market segments. "We are proud to be a member of the HPC Advisory Council, and to share our vast experience and innovative solutions in high performance computing with the HPC community," said Gautam Shah, chief executive officer, Colfax International. "Our world leading clustering solutions have already been placed in the Council Cluster Center to provide the necessary development and benchmarking environment for the Council activities and outreach." more...PDF June 25, 2008 The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that's easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA's new hyperwall-2 system unveiled today at Ames Research Center. - NASA develops world's highest resolution visualization system SUNNYVALE, Calif. - June 25, 2008 - Designed and developed by the NAS visualization team in partnership with Colfax International, Sunnyvale, Calif., the system is powered by 128 graphics processing units and 1,024 processor cores, with 74 teraflops (one teraflop equals one trillion floating point operations per second) of peak processing power and a data storage capacity of 475 terabytes (one terabyte equals one trillion bytes). The hyperwall-2 allows researchers to quickly determine trends across an array of related simulation results, or to view a single large image or animation. It would take nearly 600 video game consoles to equal the hyperwall-2's graphics processing capabilities.    more on NASA's site Hyperwall 2 pictures by NASA (Photo by Eric James)    Picture 1 (1.6MB)   Picture 2 (1.1MB)   more pictures on NASA's site May 28, 2008 Wolfram Research and Colfax International Bring an Integrated gridMathematica Solution to Desktop Supercomputing - With the gridMathematica Colfax solution, researchers and analysts can focus on their work, rather than on IT administration SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 28, 2008 - Wolfram Research announced today a groundbreaking solution for technical computing. Through its partnership with Colfax International, a major producer of business-in-a-box server systems, and in collaboration with Microsoft and Intel, Wolfram is making gridMathematica 2.2 available preinstalled on the Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster. more...PDF Apr. 28, 2008 Colfax International Offers Its Customers NET’s InfiniBand Bridging Solutions To Enable High-Performance Virtual Clustering Across Campuses and WANs - InfiniBand extension makes real-time data synchronization, backup, and disaster recovery practical between systems thousands of kilometers apart SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Apr. 28, 2008 - Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) (NYSE: NWK) today announced that Colfax International, a global supplier of high-performance enterprise computing systems, will offer NET’s NX5000 Series InfiniBand bridging solutions to its marquee customer base of large corporations, educational institutions, R&D laboratories and government agencies. By doing so, Colfax International will enable customers to create extremely high-performance virtual clusters using systems located in multiple sites across their campuses and WANs. more...PDF Feb. 25, 2008 Colfax International Expands High-Performance Computing Capabilities for Servers and Workstations - New Systems Feature MetaSDRAM™, Quadrupling Memory Capacity to Power Compute-Intensive Applications SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Feb. 25, 2008 - Colfax International, a global supplier of fully-customizable, high-performance enterprise computing systems, today announced the availability of servers and workstations featuring MetaRAM's DDR2 MetaSDRAM™ Technology, quadrupling existing memory capacity to deliver the memory performance that is critical to HPC applications. more...PDF Jan. 28, 2008 Colfax International Announces a New Line of Cost-effective InfiniBand-Based Cluster Solutions for Mainstream Applications - Affordable World-Class InfiniBand 10Gb/s Performance for Personal and Workgroup Clustering Solutions SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Jan. 28, 2008 - Colfax International, a global supplier of fully-customizable, high-performance workstations, servers, clusters, and storage solutions, today announced the availability of cost-effective InfiniBand products packaged for mainstream usage. The package can be purchased separately or integrated with system offerings from Colfax. The package consists of 10Gb/s InfiniBand adapters, cables and switches and is priced to bring supercomputer performance to mainstream applications such as multi player gaming, automotive, oil and gas, education, engineering and more. more...PDF Jan. 11, 2008 Colfax Launches an Integrated IT Infrastructure Solution Designed Specifically for Small and Midsized Businesses - All-in-One Server System based on Intel Modular Server Building Blocks Helps Simplify IT Complexity, Accelerate Growth and Improve Operational Efficiency SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Jan. 11, 2008 - Colfax International, a global supplier of fully-customizable, high-performance workstations, servers, clusters, and storage solutions, today announced the launch of an integrated server infrastructure solution designed specifically to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) better manage and simplify their IT needs. The Colfax Modular Server CX6000 based on Intel's Modular Server Building Blocks is a compact all-in-one box with enterprise-class features that fits into SMBs budget. more...PDF Sept. 10, 2007 Colfax International Enhances Colfax CX Series of Servers And Workstations With Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors - WNew Systems Enable Improved Performance-per-Watt - Customers can Consolidate, Scale and Reduce Complexity SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Sept. 10, 2007 - Colfax International, a global supplier of fully customizable, high-performance workstations, servers, clusters, and storage solutions today announced it will enhance its CX Series of servers and workstations with Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. Native quad-core design features coupled with AMD's Direct Connect Architecture help reduce bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures for better performance in the same thermal envelopes as previous generations of AMD Opteron processors. more...PDF Jan. 30, 2007 Colfax International Announces Cluster Based On AMD Opteron™ Processors, Mellanox InfiniBand, and Windows Compute Cluster Server - World-class price/performance certified for Wolfram Research gridMathematica 2 SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Jan. 30, 2007 - Colfax International, a global supplier of fully-customizable, high-performance workstations, servers, clusters, and storage solutions, today announced availability of the CX950, the world's first cluster that unites the power of the AMD Opteron™ 2000 Series processor, Mellanox InfiniBand, and Wolfram gridMathematica 2 under Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. more...PDF