is the
Loveland, Colorado –based producer of
Yellow Dog Linux ,
Cluster construction tools, and bioinformatics software. The company’s clients include
NASA ,
Boeing ,
California Institute Of Technology , and
Stanford University . Terra Soft is an
Integrated Solutions Provider with expertise in the Power Architecture and Linux OS platform. As a Mercury, Apple, and Genesi
Value-added Reseller , and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides
Turnkey and build-to-order desktop workstations, servers, and High Performance Computing clusters. Terra Soft's Y-HPC 64-bit OS and cluster construction suite is widely accepted as a preferred platform for Xserve clusters. Terra Soft has made their Yellow Dog Linux distribution solely for
Power Architecture , optimizing the distributions for technologies like for
AltiVec ,
Cell and
Hypervisor . Although its linux distributions are for
Power Architecture , their Y-HPC(High Performance Computing) software and open source Y-Bio life science package are cross-architecture.
They were the first to support a variety of products.
Terra Soft's recent efforts include the launch of Y-Bio, a cross-architecture life sciences package; and movement on the world's first commercial, Linux Board Support Package for the Cell processor, in collaboration with Mercury Computer.
IBM, Mercury, and Sony, Cell-based systems
In 2006, Terra Soft began work on the world’s first Cell-based supercomputer, in collaboration with the .
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- Yellow Dog Linux – A Linux distribution optimized for Power Architecture hardware, like Apple's Power Mac , IBM's System P and Mercury's Cell based offerings and Sony's Play Station 3 .
- Playstation® 3s with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.
- 6-node and 32-node Playstation® 3 clusters, with seamless code migration to a Mercury Cell product upgrade path
- Mercury 56 core BladeCenter JS21 Bioinformatics Cluster
- Y-Bio – A Power Architecture optimized Bio Informatics suite, tailor made for DNA Sequencing .
- Y-HPC – A construction and management suite for Linux Clusters .
- OEM partner for IBM's System P and Mercury's Cell based hardware.
