projects & agreements
Freestyle IT selects colocation
from Datum Datacentres
to support its specialist
consultancy business
Datum Datacentres has announced that specialist IT
consultancy Freestyle IT has joined the Datum community of
IT service providers housing critical infrastructure in Datum
Farnborough. Freestyle IT is a consultancy led IT business
specialising in the design, supply, installation and support of
virtual infrastructure solutions for customers across a wide
range of sectors. Originally colocated at the SSE data centre
in Fareham, Freestyle IT found itself having to accept new
terms which were not aligned to its business.
Freestyle IT had a clear idea about what it needed to
support its business and customers. By using specific
criteria, it drew up a shortlist of potential providers. When
the Freestyle team met with Datum they were impressed
by the facility, its secure location, the attitude of the team
and the possibilities offered through the Datum Connect
ecosystem of enterprises and providers.
Datum will work with Freestyle IT to support its
successful business to further develop Datum’s excellent
carrier and cloud neutral connectivity and environmentally
efficient cooling help to ensure providers can better support
client needs with flexible solutions and manageable costs.
TGAC INSTALLS LARGEST
SGI UV 300 SUPERCOMPUTER
FOR LIFE SCIENCES WORLDWIDE
With the world’s largest SGI UV 300 installation for Life Sciences, with one of
the largest Intel SSD for PCIe deployments worldwide, The Genome Analysis
Centre’s (TGAC) new supercomputing platform gives the Institute access to
the next-generation of SGI UV technology for genomics.
This new TGAC platform comprises two SGI UV 300 systems totalling
24 terabytes (TB) of shared-memory, 512 Intel Xeon Processor E7 v3
cores and 64TB of Intel P3700 SSDs with NVMe storage technology. Each
SGI UV 300 flash memory solution features 12TB of shared memory with
seventh generation SGI NUMAlink ASIC technology, scaling up to 64TB of
global addressable memory as a single system.
Paired with flash storage, the combined 24TB SGI UV 300
supercomputers can increase processing speeds of heavy workloads in
scientific research by 80 per cent. This combination
of leading-edge technology allows TGAC researchers
to benefit from the faster processing capabilities,
providing a powerful platform for genomics analysis.
A key benefit for using this system is the
scalability and memory capabilities to execute
some of the most demanding data and computeintensive workloads including large, complex
genome assembly and analytics. The SGI UV with
the Intel Xeon Processor E7 v3 product family
create a powerful technology that can advance
genomic breakthroughs.
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