LOS ANGELES, California - 13 August 2008 - From the showfloor of SIGGRAPH, Sony booth 521, Terra Soft today announced a partnership with Sony Corporation for the provision of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux as the defacto operating system for the Sony ZEGO BCU-100, a computing unit with its built-in Cell Broadband Engine(TM) and RSX graphics processor.
Over the course of the past year, Terra Soft worked closely with Sony to develop a version of the Yellow Dog Linux operating system specifically for the Sony BCU-100. This board support package (BSP) provides end users with a best-of-class, high performance Linux OS that seamlessly blends ease of installation with the Cell/B.E. SDK with full 3D support for the on-board RSX GPU.
Hiro Fujita of Business Development Manager at Sony's B2B Solutions Business Group states, "We chose to work with Terra Soft for their extensive experience with the Cell/B.E.. Their Yellow Dog Linux operating system provides support for all products that adopt Cell/B.E. manufactured by Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and IBM with a single kernel family. The Terra Soft team's experience with high performance computing, clustering, and the film industry is perfectly matched with our intended market."
In addition to Yellow Dog Linux, Terra Soft offers the Y-HPC cluster construction suite which enables the rapid network deployment of a single node image across dozens, even hundreds of BCU-100 compute nodes in a matter of minutes for the rapid construction of a homogeneous video effects render farm.
Terra Soft's Y-Film ties OSX, Windows, and Linux artist desktops to backend BCU-100 render farms with a powerful suite of asset management and workflow pipeline tools.
Owen Stampflee, Director of Engineering for Terra Soft states, "The BCU-100 is a very unique product with a powerful offering for the image processing markets. To match this industry leading offering, we have made certain the Yellow Dog Linux BSP is at its best."
Development tools include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Debugger (Gdb), Eclipse, Subversion, and a large collection of libraries and toolkits.
YDEL for the BCU-100 may be purchased directly from the Terra Soft Store.
To learn more about the YDEL, visit:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydel/
To learn more about Y-HPC, visit:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/
To learn more about Y-Film, visit:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-film/
To learn more about the Sony ZEGO BCU-100, visit:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/sony/
SIGGRAPH 2008
August 12-14, Los Angeles Convention Center, downtown Los Angeles, California. Come visit Sony booth 521 to experience a demonstation of the new ZEGO BCU-100 running Yellow Dog Linux and SideFX Houdini. Founder & CEO Kai Staats and Director of Engineering for Terra Soft Solutions are on-site, presenting at 10 AM, 1 PM, and 3PM and available in the booth to answer questions about Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC, and Y-Film as they relate to the BCU-100 product.
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
As the recognized leader in Linux for Power since 1999, Terra Soft provides Yellow Dog Linux board support for Power architecture chip vendors and OEMs; turn-key, integrated solutions built upon the PowerStation and systems from IBM, Mercury, and Sony; cross-architecture Linux applications for high performance computing, including Y-HPC Cluster Construction Suite and the Y-Film Asset Management System.
For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Cell Broadband Engine is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.. Power is a trademark of IBM. YDL, Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC, and Y-Film are registered trademarks of Terra Soft Solutions. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Additional product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
