New products offer industry's highest density storage unit, improved storage performance and advanced management capabilities.

Fremont, California, October 21, 2009 - HPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of high performance computing servers, clusters, workstations, and storage solutions, today announced its highest density SAS / SATA JBOD storage systems for enterprise applications.  The HiPerDisk storage systems will support both enterprise SAS and SATA drives, enabling tiered storage in a box, while delivering flexibility, advanced data protection features, redundant components and high-speed bandwidth to help ensure maximum data storage reliability.

The HiPerDisk features 42 hot-swap drives which will support high capacity SAS or SATA drives or a combination of SAS & SATA drives simultaneously.  This flexibility enables enterprise customers to standardize on one system for all three application data types: transactional, high-bandwidth and reference data.  Designed with no single point of failure, the HiPerDisk storage line features single or dual controller module each consisting of three mini SAS (4x) port.  A hotswap redundant power supply and fans are provided for optimal enterprise reliability.

“HPC Systems, Inc. is committed to ensuring its products stay on top of the latest technological innovations, so that our customers are always ahead of the curve,” says Kalyan Chadalavada, Director of Systems Architecture, HPC Systems, Inc. “The advanced processing capabilities of Intel’s Nehalem architecture within these new products give our customers access to unprecedented levels of speed and performance, which is essential for high performance computing.  This allows them to crank out projects on time and at cost, helping them to stay competitive in the constantly evolving HPC environment.”

“Large and small enterprise customers are able to get up to 84TB of storage in a small form factor at an exceptional price to meet a wide range of business needs," said Kalyana Chadalavada, Director of Systems Architecture, HPC Systems, Inc.  "As a leading supplier of high performance solutions, HPC Systems, Inc. is leveraging its extensive industry expertise to help enterprise customers address their data storage challenges, including 24x7 transaction processing, streaming video, digital imaging and massive data backup requirements."

Key Features of HiPerDisk:

• 42 bay, 4U Rackmount chassis support up to 42 hotswap 3.5” SAS/SATA 2TB hard drives
• Simultaneously support SAS or SATA disks
• Single or dual SAS JBOD controller modules
• Three 4x-wide SAS connectors per I/O module
• Dual redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and cooling modules for high availability
• Support for up to 84 drives using expansion chassis
• The HiPerDisk-42, 4U 42 bay SAS/SATA JBOD storage system is shipping with a starting price of $18,995 for 42TB of SATA storage.

About HPC Systems, Inc.

HPC Systems, Inc. is an SDB / 8(A) certified manufacturer and integrator of customized server, storage, workstation, and cluster solutions. HPC Systems, Inc. focus on utilizing standard commodity hardware, standard interconnects and networking technology to develop customized solutions. HPC Systems, Inc. offers the complete range of consultancy, hardware integration, software, design, installation services, and system optimizations services, thus providing an ideal solution for industrial, financial services, life sciences, governmental and educational organizations requiring excellent price/performance for handling high performance computing (HPC) workloads.

All of HPC Systems products are available on the GSA schedule and also can be procured as an 8(a) set aside.

Contact Information

HPC Systems, Inc.
Lemei Ruan
510-656-8282
888-725-3472
www.hpcsystems.com