Penguin Computing

Penguin Computing is one of the largest private suppliers of enterprise and high-performance computing solutions in North America and is based in Fremont, California. Penguin Computing pioneers the design, engineering, integration, and delivery of solutions that are based on open architectures and are made of non-proprietary components from a variety of vendors. The company's hardware products range from high-end servers and workstations to networking technologies to storage solutions. As one of a limited number of authorized Open Compute Project (OCP) solution providers, Penguin Computing developed its Tundra product line, which applies the benefits of OCP to high-performance computing. In addition to a comprehensive hardware product portfolio, the company also provides software solutions under its Scyld brand, including "Scyld ClusterWare" and "Scyld Cloud Manager." The company's services offerings range from onsite cluster deployment and integration to subscription-based systems administration. The company also has built and operates the leading, public, HPC cloud service, Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD). Penguin Computing has systems installed with more than 2,500 customers in 40 countries across eight major vertical markets.

The company was founded in San Francisco in 1998 by Sam Ockman. It raised $1.7 million in 2006 from Weber Capital, San Francisco Equity Partners and Convergence Ventures.[1] It raised $1.5 million in funding in 2009 from San Francisco Equity Partners, Convergence Partners, vSpring Capital and Weber Capital.[2]

The Scyld Beowulf software, known as "Scyld ClusterWare," is compatible with either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.

In 2011 support was broadened to include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.[3]

In 2009, the Penguin On-Demand service was announced, which offered batch processing.[4] In 2012 Penguin Computing announced the UDX1 server that was based on products from Calxeda intended to run software such as Apache Hadoop.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "VC Deals". PE Week Wire (Thomson Financial). February 7, 2006. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Penguin Computing snaps up $1.5M for Linux cluster virtualization". Venture Beat. November 9, 2009. Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (January 13, 2011). "Penguin goes hybrid with ClusterWare: Linux meets Windows HPC". The Register. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Cade Metz (August 11, 2009). "Penguin goes hybrid with ClusterWare: InfiniBand with wings". The Register. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (October 19, 2012). "Penguin Computing muscles into the ARM server fray: Aiming Cortex-A9 clusters at Big Data". The Register. Retrieved June 3, 2013.

External links

Official website


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