Microway has introduced a scalable server that breaks the barrier for performance and memory size.

The company showed off its NumberSmasher vSMP on Monday at High Performance On Wall Street.

The server has 1,024 GB of shared DRAM for reduced simulation times, preprocessing, and parallel applications. The shared memory configuration is large enough so users can eliminate swap-to-disk for high-powered simulations in science, electronic design automation, mechanical engineering, and research.

The server allows users to manage critical workflows on a modular, scalable system that features Intel's Xeon CPU and compiler technology. Intel's latest Fortran and C++ Compiler technology helps the NumberSmasher vSMP deliver more power with higher efficiency and lower total cost of ownership. Microway said that a single Linux operating system and remote server monitoring improve manageability and reliability while offering a choice of threaded or MPI parallelism.

The company recently sold its first NumberSmasher vSMP to the National Institutes of Health. The server was on sale at the conference for $19,995. It features a 16-core, 2U system, 128 GB DRAM -- 667-MHz, 4-TB disk. A modular scalable system offers up to 128 cores (with 32 Intel Xeon Quad Core 3 GHz CPUs -- E5472), up to 1 TB hot-swap hard disk drives and works on Linux OS and Intel Compiler Suite 10.1.