Times N introduces Processor Teaming technology

Times N Systems' co-founders, Ted Scardamalia and Lynn West, are credited as the visionaries for Processor Teaming. They developed the concept of Processor Teaming with the IT manager in mind to provide a simple solution for a complex, continual problem faced by companies needing better processing performance.

"The ultimate purpose of Processor Teaming is to simplify life for the IT manager who is currently having to change the entire compute environment and drain the budget just to gain better throughput efficiencies and processing performance," said Ted Scardamalia, chairman and CEO of Times N Systems. "The reality today is that companies are having to upgrade to newer and much more expensive compute platforms, operating systems and applications in order to enhance performance. Processor Teaming alleviates those downfalls and provides access to virtually unlimited processing power and scalable I/O, at a significantly lower cost."

Times N Systems has combined the best aspects of two solutions that are currently available, without the drawbacks. Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) is in broad use today but is limited in its ability to scale processors and I/O channels. Clustering is another compute architecture and although it is scalable, efficiencies suffer greatly with general parallel applications. By marrying the attributes of SMPs and Clusters, Processor Teaming provides the efficiencies and programming model of an SMP combined with the capability to scale processors and I/O channels similar to a Cluster, thus creating a scalable and powerful solution that can interconnect up to 128 processors and as many I/O channels for near linear compute performance.

Processor Teaming will be available at a 20-50 percent lower cost than current high compute machines offering similar performance. The Times N Systems solution is interoperable with current Windows NT infrastructures, and by the end of the year will also run Linux and Windows 2000. Processor Teaming supports industry standard operating systems, applications and components, including Intel-based processors, computers, memory and disk drives. Processor Teaming is an easy to use, powerful and scalable solution for high compute applications, enabling companies to take advantage of new technologies in processors, memory and disk drives as they become available. Processor Teaming also reduces extra costs associated with upgrades, maintenance and retraining even after the initial purchase and implementation, through time as companies' compute demands grow.