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Fully Redesigned Black Lab v2.1 offers BProc, Supermon, Blast Loveland, Colorado -- 4 September 2002 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is proud to announce Black Lab v2.1 for YDL, a radical departure from previous versions of Terra Soft's cluster management suite. Black Lab v2.1 is a cluster build and management suite for HPC clusters running Yellow Dog Linux. It offers single-click installation and configuration, automated updates through apt-get, a graphical user interface designed for both new and savvy cluster managers, control of multiple clusters, and for those who prefer --command line control. "We have completely redesigned the foundation on which Black Lab operates. Previous versions were based upon ssh while this release incorporates BProc 3.0, Los Alamos National Lab technology that enables a low overhead, highly scalable cluster control system designed to operate with hundreds, even a thousand nodes," explains David Gelvin, lead Black Lab developer at Terra Soft. At the heart of the new Black Lab is a unique PowerPC Linux kernel with both BProc 3.0 and Supermon built-in. Supermon provides near-realtime "life-signs" from each node such as available swap, memory, and CPU load averages. More than two dozen parameters are immediately available from the Black Lab Control Center graphical user interface. Gelvin continues, "BProc automatically migrates applications and shared libraries from the server to selected nodes. This allows each node to operate with a minimal installation of Linux on its local drive. In fact, entire clusters can operate without drives local to the nodes, reducing complexity, power consumption, and mean time between failure." Black Lab enables node drive reformatting and installation in approximately three minutes. Administrators may modify or design their own server-side node images to build nodes with only the software required for the intended function. Node images may install a full compliment of applications and libraries, just local swap, or net-boot a drive-less node. Learn more about Black Lab v2.1. In addition, Black Lab includes an AltiVec optimized YDL version of the bioinformatics library "Genentech BLAST", built upon the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) tool suite and popularized by Apple Computer earlier this year. Finally, Black Lab includes a single-click, no configuration installation of the renowned Mandelbrot Fractal Set generator. Mandelbrot offers an aesthetically pleasing internode communication and CPU performance benchmark. Black Lab v2.1 is available now from the Terra Soft online Store. About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is a leading developer of integrated solutions for PowerPC. Yellow Dog Linux, the flagship product, has boosted viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors with support for Apple Xserve, GVS 9000, the briQ, and other PowerPC-based desktop, embedded, and HPC computers. Black Lab is an HPC cluster node build and management suite. For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com
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