Canton, MI, Dec 2, 2009 - Scalable Informatics Inc., a provider of innovative high performance storage and computing solutions, announces the availability of their new siCluster™ storage cluster product (http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster).

It is known that as data stores grow exponentially in size, there becomes a need for systems capable of reliably storing and delivering this data to business, scientific, and engineering computing environments. siCluster provides these reliable high performance storage capabilities with the ability to scale rapidly and cost effectively.

"By leveraging JackRabbit high performance, tightly-coupled storage or Delta-V value-priced storage, siCluster enables you to scale uncompromising per-node performance and massive per-node capacity to whatever level you require, whether it's two terabytes or hundreds of petabytes of raw storage," said Dr. Joseph Landman, CEO and founder of Scalable Informatics.

Along with a high performance network fabric such as InfiniBand or 10GbE, siCluster incorporates GlusterFS™ from Gluster, Inc.™ in its standard configuration. This system enables users to scale siCluster's storage capacity by adding additional storage nodes without compromising performance or reliability. I/O and network performance scale up as more Scalable Informatics storage nodes are added.

Capacities scale from several TB (TeraBytes or 1E+12 bytes) through hundreds of Petabytes.

Scalable Informatics storage systems can be found in engineering simulation, scientific computing, financial services, rendering, modeling, visualization, and many other data-intensive processing industries. In any application where users need a combination of high performance, reliability, and capacity, Scalable Informatics provides best-in-class solutions.

"The bandwidth wall, common on many other storage designs, is absent in siCluster," noted Dr. Landman. "An 8-node JackRabbit JR5-based siCluster has been measured providing 16GB/s read and 12GB/s write across 32 nodes for 32 simultaneous IOzone processes. This performance is becoming increasingly needed in today's research, and business computing environments."

About Scalable Informatics

Scalable Informatics is a privately-owned, high performance computing and storage solutions company focusing on delivering pragmatic solutions to computational problems. They design, build, and support high performance clusters, storage and workstation hardware, scalable and accelerated software, and offer support, consulting and development services. Scalable Informatics is a proud member of Automation Alley. The company's website is www.scalableinformatics.com, and may be reached by telephone at +1 734.786.8423, and by email at info@scalableinformatics.com.

Scalable Informatics, JackRabbit, Delta-V, and siCluster are copyright © 2009, Scalable Informatics. All trademarks are property of their respective owners.