Nor-TechInnovative IT and

Scientific Computing Solutions

Nor-Tech’s headquarters in Burnsville, Minnesota.

• Nor-Tech has grown to over 100 employees and continues to extend its reach.

• Nor-Tech is recognized as the 2nd largest custom system builder in the US, producing thousands of PCs and Servers a month. (CRN Magazine)

• Nor-Tech has been a leader in designing technology solutions for more than 20 years

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Who is Nor-Tech?

Nor-Tech’s facility

• Nor-Tech’s 60,000 sq. ft. facility houses Production, Sales, Support, Engineering and Warehouse, all under one roof.

• Nor-Tech is the exclusive manufacturer of

• Entrepreneur Magazine’s "HOT 100" list of fastest growing companies 3 years in a row.

• CRN’s 2nd Largest System Builder in the Country

• Microsoft’s Most Valuable Partner (MVP) System Builder Award

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Who is Nor-Tech?

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Nor-Tech: System Integrator

Nor-Tech is an authorized and certified system integrator for leading technology brands, an advantage that results in superior knowledge of, and priority access to, the latest products from:• Intel • Supermicro• Dell • HP

AUTHORIZED SYSTEM INTEGRATOR OF:

AUTHORIZED RESELLER OF:

• Voyageur Desktop PCs• Small-Form Factor PCs• Notebooks & Netbooks• Mini & Mountable PCs• and much, much more…

• Rackmount HPC Clusters• Portable HPC Clusters• Modular Servers / Blades• NAS, SAN & iSCSI Storage Servers

Nor-Tech offers a wide variety of computer products

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• Public / Private Educational Institutions and Government agencies may purchase directly from Nor-Tech utilizing our GSA Contract # GS-35F-133CA.

CONTRACTS

• Contract with the University of Wisconsin since 2003 Reason CONTRACT #15-2308

• Contract with Minnesota Educational Service Cooperativessince 2007

The Nor-Tech Advantage

Qualities that set Nor-Tech apart in the HPC Industry

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Experience

• 20+ Years of hands-on experience

• Nor-Tech has been in the HPC field for 15 Years, delivering projects for NSF, NIH, DARPA, FAA, VA, Boeing, GS,ANSYS, Dassault & Universities.

• Projects include HPC, HA and VIZ Clusters based on CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora, Windows HPC Server, Rocks, Warewulf and SuSE.

Nor-Tech is a Microsoft HPC partner and was working with HPC Server 2008 for nearly a year before its release.

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Nor-Tech: Innovation

• Award-winning product development: Nor-Tech’s Portable Cluster was named ‘Most Innovative Server Solution’ at Intel Solutions Summit.

• Our expert team of engineers, technicians and solution developers are keenly aware of emerging technologies and are constantly designing innovative solutions for the industries ever-evolving needs.

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Association• Nor-Tech partners with the best and

brightest

• Nor-Tech is an Intel Premier Dealer, AMD Platinum Solutions Provider and Microsoft Gold / Direct Certified Partner. These relationships have been earned over time and afford us priority access to products and support.

There are many unique aspects to cluster development, and we choose only the best products, determined by the specific requirements for each project.

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Software Partners

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Software Partnershttp://www.nor-tech.com/software-partners

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Customization• Sometimes the right tool for the job has to

be built from the ground up

• Nor-Tech develops custom, turnkey HPC solutions

• Remote Customer Qualification Testing

• Bare Metal Recovery DVD’s

• Free Cluster & Software configuration Software experience includes (but not limited to):

CHARMM NAMD Paradigm PBS/Torque ROCKS Sun Grid Engine Open MPI Open Foam LDAPOFED MPI FDTD

Experience, creativity and resources allow us to anticipate and avoid certain challenges and tackle others as they arise.

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Presentation

• Total solutions, inside and out

• Nor-Tech takes cable selection seriously, considering not only data flow, but also length, placement and appearance. Cables are clearly and specifically marked making them easily identifiable. The result is a simplified, uncluttered setup that looks as slick as it runs.

Custom Branding: Clusters cases can be branded with your company's logo or other graphics. Logos can be painted on for a permanent solution or applied as a removable decal.

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― Total Solution ― Service & Support

Included• Remote Testing• Recovery Media

Available• On-site Installation• OffSight™ Remote Monitoring

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Distributed Parallel Processing

Cluster Technology

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Big to Small

Benefits: • Fully customizable • Lightweight, rolling cabinet allows for easy relocation

Features:• Front and rear security locks• Cabling management system• Adjustable mounting rails• Gridded ventilation for maximum airflow• Quick-release side panels and doors for convenient maintenance

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Workgroup Clusters

Benefits: • Fully customizable • Runs at less than office ambient noise levels• Designed to integrate easily into office environments

Features:• Ultra-low-noise exhaust fan module cooling system• 19 Watts total power consumption by the cabinet itself, including cooling system• Detachable panels allow rear and side access• Heavy duty castors, both fixed and rotating for maximum mobility and stability• Cable management trays keep unit organized and simplify maintenance

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Office Clusters

Benefits: • Fully customizable • Ruggedized chassis meets applicable sections of military standards such as MIL-STD-108, MIL-STD648 and MIL-STD-810• Run up to 128 cores on just two 120VAC 20-amp circuits

Features:• Double continuous gasket system with automatic pressure equalization valve for optimal environmental protection• Shock absorbers line the chassis, keeping the system protected from sudden impact as well as sustained vibration. • Sturdy, lockable casters roll smoothly, even over rough terrain

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Ruggedized Portable Cluster

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Voyageur 8 GPU Server

Benefits: • High GPU Core Density per Rack Unit• Latest NVidia® Maxwell™ architecture• Unmatched Power Efficiency• Dual socket R (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon®

processor E5-2600 andE5-2600 v3 family• Up to 1.5TB ECC DDR4, up to 2133MHz; 24x

DIMM sockets• Thunderbolt ready• Expansion slots:

• 8 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (double-width) slots• 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) slot

• Intel® i210 Dual Gb Ethernet• 1x Dedicated LAN for IPMI Remote

Management, 1x VGA, 10x USB 2.0• 4x 3.5″ Hot-swap SAS2/SATA3 HDD Bays• 900W Redundant Power Supplies Gold Level

(94%+)

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Voyageur SSD/NVMe CachingWorkstation

Benefits: • Windows or Linux (LVM-Caching SSD or NVMe)• Best of Both Magnetic and Solid State Storage• SSD & NVMe • Dual socket R (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon®

processor E5-2600 andE5-2600 v3 family• Up to 1TB ECC DDR4, up to 2133MHz; 16x DIMM

sockets• Thunderbolt Ready• Expansion slots:

• 3 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (double-width) slots• 1 PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot

• Intel® i210 Dual Gbe• I/O ports: 1x Dedicated LAN for IPMI Remote

Management, 1x VGA, 10x USB 2.0• 4x 3.5″, 2x 5.25”, 1x 3.5” Internal• 900W Redundant Power Supplies Gold Level

Whisper Quiet WorkstationSSD/NVMe Caching

• Education– Arizona State University– Auburn University– Cal State University – Fullerton– Cal-Tech– Drexel University– Georgia State University– University at Buffalo (NY)– University of Wisconsin – Madison– University of Wisconsin –

Milwaukee– University of Alberta– University of Arizona– University of Akron– University of Manitoba – Winnipeg– University of Maryland– Utah State University – University of Colorado Boulder– University of Minnesota– Marquette University– Lakehead University – Syracuse University– MIT

• Government / Military• Veterans Administration • United States Army• SAIC• Decisive Analytics• FAA• Computer Science Corp

• Medical / Manufacturing• Boeing• Gulfstream Aerospace• SAT Gas & Oil Services• Orasi Medical• Nor-Tel• Seagate Technology• Hitachi Global Storage

Technologies

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Storage Solutions

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• Unparalleled Scalability—a file system virtually without limits

• Reliability—meets uptime requirements of both business and national security applications

• Proven Performance—increases throughput and

I/O via massively parallel file access

• Decreased Costs• Open Technology

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Lustre Storage System

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Case StudiesNor-Tech Solutions in Action

• Fluid Dynamics researchersneeded to acquire, rapidly process and store large amounts of data

• Nor-Tech created a cluster that operates within the energy restrictions of a simple fluid dynamics lab and made it portable so it can be shared by multiple departments on more than one campus.

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Flowing data at a Major University

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Portable Cluster for the Oil & Gas

industry• Head Node + 16 Compute Nodes• (32) Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5405

CPUs (128 cores)• 2Gb Ram per Core• 80+ TB Storage• InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and

Ethernet Interconnect• 4 Tape Drives for reading customer

data / processing data on cluster

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Rendering urban 3D modeling a reality

• A DARPA funded project for rendering 3D maps of urban terrain required high performance computing that met military standards for mobility and could function with limit power resources

• Nor-Tech built a ruggedized Portable Cluster which maximizes power via GPUs in each of its 8 compute nodes.

Using 3D modeling technology, soldiers can better anticipate what’s around the corner in complicated urban landscapes.

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Think Fast! Cluster speeds up

brain research• A medical firm developing new methods

for diagnosing neurological disorders, such as MS and Alzheimer’s, needed a faster way to process brain scans which could take up to days.

• Nor-Tech developed a Rocks / Linux Data Center Cluster configured to meet their compute, network interconnect and storage needs while reducing the time to process scans down to under ten minutes.

High-performance clusters are gaining popularity in Bioinformatics, a field of Computational Biology which applies algorithms and statistical techniques to biological datasets.

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EcoMotors’ Firing on all Cylinders

• HPC Integration of ANSYS, Abaqus, Converge CFD and PBS Pro

• HPC Appliance Solution, Online within 1-2 hours of delivery

Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) transitioning from Workstation to HPC. More complex more realistic models and simulations and parametric simulations.

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Pumping life into SAFL Heart Research

• Scientists developing superior heart valves needed a system that could deliver an exceedingly high-resolution image at very fast speeds and shift workloads on the fly

• Nor-Tech delivered a Cluster connected with both Ethernet and Myrinet and software for monitoring and managing the Cluster remotely

• An arm of the LIGO project has data coming in from over 120,000 computers, requiring hardware able to handle information from 1600 compute cores as well as two LIGO laser interferometers and connect to the existing network of Beowulf-type machines

• Nor-Tech built storage cluster with 300 usable Terabytes of SATA-II drive space attached to RAID controllers

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An astronomical amount of storage

• Nor-Tech’s nVidia-based Fermi/CUDA Cluster for LIGO researchers at Syracuse University boasts 88,000 GPU cores

• GPU Cluster will provide vital technologies for analyzing exponentially growing data.

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GPU Cluster for GravitationalWave Analysis

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University of Wisconsin

Physics

GPU Cluster

U S Dept. of Energy

X-Ray Diffraction

• 14336 GPU Cores

• nVidia Tesla Fermi M2050

• 32 TFlops

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Boeing

HPC Cluster - Signal Processing for Aircraft

Industry

• Ruggedized

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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University of Wisconsin Milwaukee -

Physics

HPC Cluster - Gravitational Wave

Observation

• 3840 compute cores

• 7TB of HPC Class memory

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University of Minnesota

Voystor 4500DS – NAS device for the Fluid

Dynamics for Wind & Water

• Deployed over .5 Petabyte

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Service & Support• Spare Parts Closet located at Customer Site

• 3 Year Parts & Labor Warranty Optional 5 Year Parts & Labor Warranty

• On Site Support (8x5) • Optional 24x7 Support

• Free Lifetime Toll-Free Technical Support

• Remote Cluster Management & Maintenance

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For more information, visit us online:

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