hardware it services founded california united states 1984 founder larry lesser headquarters lake forest california united states number of locations 2 area served worldwide key people alex lesser vice president 1 larry lesser president 1 janice lesser ceo eric lesser director of operations products computing clouds supercomputers big data storage servers 2 website www.pssclabs.com pssc labs is a california based company that provides supercomputing solutions in the united states and internationally . its products include high performance servers clusters workstations and raid storage systems for scientific research government and military entertainment content creators developers and private clouds . 3 the company has implemented clustering software from nasa goddard s beowulf project in its supercomputers designed for bioinformatics medical imaging computational chemistry and other scientific applications . 4 timeline edit pssc labs was founded in 1984 by larry lasser . in 1998 it manufactured the aeneas supercomputer for dr. herbert hamber of the university of california irvine the physics and astronomy department 5 ; it was based on linux and had a maximum speed of 20.1 gigaflops . 6 7 in 2001 the company developed cbest software packages utilities and custom scripts used to ease the cluster administration process . 8 in 2003 the company released the third version of its cluster management software with support for 32 bit and 64 bit amd and intel processors linux kernel and other open source tools . 9 in 2005 pssc labs demonstrated its new water cooling technology for high performance computers at the acm ieee supercomputing conference in seattle washington . 10 in 2007 the company focused on supercomputer development for life sciences researchers and announced its technological solution for full genome data analysis including assembly read mapping and analysis of large amounts of high throughput dna and rna sequencing data . 11 in 2008 pssc labs designed the powerserve quattro i a 4000 supercomputer for genome sequencing . 12 in 2013 it released cloudoop server platform for big data analytics hadoop server which offers up to 50tb of storage space in just 1ru . 13 the company joined cloudera partner program the following year and certified the cloudoop 12000 in 2014 which is compatible with cloudera enterprise 5 . in the same year mapr satrted using cloudoop 12000 platform for record setting time series data base ingestion rate 14 and the company joined hortonworks partner program . in 2015 the company was cloudoop 12000 certified which is comaptible with hortonworks hdp 2.2 . references edit a b ken farmer 20 july 2006 . five questions for alex lesser vice president of pssc labs . linuxhpc.org . retrieved 17 january 2014 . jae k. shim siegel . information systems management handbook supplement series . prentice hall ptr . p. 168 . isbn 9780130124180 . sorin nita 3 november 2011 . ocz s deneva 2 ssds get qualified to pssc labs systems . softpedia . softnews net . retrieved 17 january 2014 . steve silva 2008 . web server administration . cengage learning . p. 64 . isbn 9781423903239 . herbert w. hamber 14 december 2000 . aeneas supercomputer . university of california at irvine . department of physics . retrieved 17 january 2014 . marc h. levine jae k. shim ; 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