An Intel Premier Partner, Penguin Computing, today announced that the new Relion 1670 server, based on the latest Intel 5400 'Seaburg' chipset platform and Intel® Xeon® 5200 and 5400 series processors, was the top selling high performance computing (HPC) solution for Q1 2008. The Relion 1670, available since February, is a rack mountable computing platform, which delivers significantly enhanced performance and efficiency.

President worldwide field operations for Penguin Computing, Charles Wuischpard, said: "We brought our Intel Seaburg solution to market more rapidly than nearly anyone and the market interest and acceptance has been phenomenal". "During the first quarter, this product accounted for nearly 40% of all orders including several systems that should qualify for TOP500 status."

Providing many unique capabilities in its class, the Relion 1670 system supports a higher 1600MHz front side bus speed whereas typical mainstream enterprise servers are limited to 1333MHz, which unlocks the full performance potential of the fastest Intel Xeon 5400 series CPUs. The Relion 1670 also provides up to 128GB of main memory (RAM), a unique capability in a compact 1U form factor.

Director of hardware product management for Penguin Computing, Jussi Kukkonen, said: "At Penguin Computing our goal is to always bring the very latest technology to our core HPC customers. Penguin customers typically need as much computational capacity as their budget and data center allows, and the Relion 1670 delivers substantially more performance/dollar/watt than other competing Intel/Linux platforms,"

The Relion 1670 server, similar to other Penguin Computing products, provides management and serviceability features to support large HPC clusters and mission critical enterprise applications. All Penguin Computing servers support free and commercial versions of the Linux operating system.