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Huntington Beach, CA, USA - April 29, 2007 - Dauger Research, Inc.,
ships version 1.7.6 of Pooch (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic
application) and Pooch Pro clustering software. The patented easy-to-use
clustering technology now taps Open MPI, an open-source MPI
implementation formed by a partnership of academia, research, and
industry, residing in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". As the only solution that
merges a modern graphical user interface with supercomputer-compatible
parallel computing, Pooch technology makes powerful cluster technology
accessible for its users.
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"After clustering Macs for ten years, ours is still the simplest way to
get into clustering", said Dr. Dean Dauger, President of Dauger
Research, Inc. "With Pooch we try to be MPI implementation-agnostic, and
Open MPI is meant to work with as many technologies as possible, so
Pooch and Open MPI working together is an obvious fit. Pooch combines a
modern user experience with supercomputing technologies like Open MPI;
the result is reliable, accessible, 'ad hoc', powerful Mac clusters."
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Winner of IEEE Cluster's "most innovative" award, Pooch technology
combines powerful, numerically-intensive parallel-computing clusters
with the famed ease-of-use of the Macintosh, applying the best of
cluster and grid computing. Version 1.7.6 connects to
Open MPI built
into Leopard via a pair of software modules, as specified by the Open
MPI architecture. This connection enables Pooch to communicate with Open
MPI so its daemons can launch the MPI application. Pooch can then
identify and track Open MPI's execution. Open MPI, supplied only in the
latest Mac OS X 10.5, becomes the seventh MPI implementation Pooch
supports. Also this new version of Pooch has adjusted to several
infrastructure updates in Leopard, including long file, application, and
directory names and Leopard's new Terminal.
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Pooch uses Bonjour for automatic node configuration and discovery,
supports multicore by treating each core as a "virtual node", including
Intel Core's, and launches parallelized Universal Applications onto a
cluster, the first and only clustering solution to do so.
Pooch uses Bonjour for automatic node configuration and discovery,
supports multicore by treating each core as a "virtual node", including
Intel Core's, and launches parallelized Universal Applications onto a
cluster, the first and only clustering solution to do so. The
Dauger
Research Vault presents
eight tutorials extensively describing how to
develop parallel applications and algorithms. Users can access
tutorials
outlining the different types of parallel computing,
detailed
MPI information, and
descriptions, with example code in Fortran and C,
of the basics of writing parallel code. Visitors to the web site can
download GUI and command-line installers containing a trial Pooch,
sample parallel applications and source code,
a Software Development
Kit, and
full documentation.
Dauger Research provides the easiest way to
write, develop, and run your parallel code today.
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Dauger Research has already shipped updates to Pooch and Pooch Pro
v1.7.6 to Pooch users whose subscriptions are active. The new Pooch also
ships with the new v1.3 of the
Pooch QuickTime Exporter.
On May 1, Dauger Research will be presenting
the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica
at UC Irvine at 1 pm in the Computer Science Building (Bldg. 302), Room 432,
so please come if you're in the area.
Pooch v1.7.6 is available for US$175 for the first compute node then
US$125 for each node thereafter. Pooch Pro v1.7.6 is available for
US$200 for the first compute node then US$150 for each node thereafter.
Users may order Pooch and other software using the forms on our web site
or online through the
Dauger Research Store.
See the web site for
special academic pricing.
Pooch requires networked Macintoshes and/or Xserves running Mac OS X
10.2 or later, Mac OS X Server 10.2 or later, and/or Mac OS 9 with
CarbonLib 1.2 or later with 16 MB of available RAM and 4 MB of disk
space. Pooch Pro requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later and/or Mac OS X Server
10.2 or later. The Open MPI features require Mac OS X 10.5 or Server
10.5 or later.
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