Small Company, Big Strides: How Tyrone Is Making Its Mark In HPC

Sandeep Lodha, VP Sales & Marketing, Tyrone SystemsIt may seem that enterprise technology is a world that belongs to only Goliaths of IT- IBM, HP, EMC, Cisco and the likes, but there are a few Davids too who make a mark in some of the most sophisticated and challenging segments. Tyrone Systems is one such company that claims a successful track record in areas such as high performance computing (HPC), unified storage, cloud, and big data. The company claims to create unique solutions that meet some of the most challenging customer needs and prides on having almost every large IT spender in the country on its customer list.

Supercomputing Solutions
Tyrone designed CDAC’s Param Yuva II, which features 224 Intel based servers running energy efficient Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge processors, Intel accelerators, Intel Xeon Phi co–processors boards, SSD drives, 15TB of high performance memory and extremely efficient power supplies. CDAC’s Param Yuva II can run over 3000 processing cores simultaneously to achieve a peak compute performance in excess of 500 Teraflops per second and at almost half the energy consumption levels of conventional CPU based HPC systems.

Says Sandeep Lodha, VP, Marketing, Tyrone Systems, “ In the case of CDAC Param Yuva II, given that our brief was to achieve highest GFLOPS at lowest energy consumption levels, we based our system design around green computing technologies that support best-in-class, highly interoperable, non-proprietary components from Intel and other leading server component vendors.”

HPC in the Cloud
Setting up a dedicated infrastructure for HPC is a complex endeavor and requires long lead time, high capital expenditure and operational costs. Tyrone announced the availability of a cloud based HPC-on-demand solution made available to customers on demand and on a pay as you use basis.

Says Sandeep Lodha, VP-Marketing, Tyrone Systems, “Whether applied to reduce the time taken to model car parts from seven days to five hours, or to reduce the development of a life saving drug from the present 20 years to under 5 years or to enhance the quality of special effects in full length animation feature, HPC solutions are in great demand with both academics and commercial users.”

Tyrone Systems business model is based on taking high end industry standard components or solution stacks and using them to engineer systems that deliver high performance and scalability. Tyrone has alliances with companies like Arista for 10G switches, Mellanox for Infiniband, Dolphin for interconnect systems, and LSI Logic for hardware-based accelerators, but on the other side, it has alliances with the likes of Intel, NVidia, VMWare amongst others. For example, the company successfully designed and delivered HPC systems that are extremely efficient in power consumption, commercialized loud-based HPC, and delivered high performance unified storage solutions. Says Sandeep Lodha, VP-Marketing, Tyrone Systems, “Tyrone’s applications are woven around green computing technologies that support best-in-class, highly interoperable, non-proprietary components from Intel and other leading server component vendors.”