Nov. 3, 2009 (Business Wire) -- 3Leaf Systems, an innovator of ASIC and software technologies that enable the dynamic data center, today announced the general availability of its disruptive new Dynamic Data Center Server™ (DDC-Server™) for AMD Opteron processors. DDC-Server features the 3Leaf Systems DDC-ASIC™ combined with DDC-Software™ to take industry-standard technologies to new markets, meeting the agility and scalability requirements of today’s enterprises. Until now, such capabilities required expensive proprietary systems that could not take advantage of the combined innovation of the industry.

3Leaf Systems products include ASICs that expose substantial value for customers, the software needed to unlock and deliver that value, and complete OEM-ready systems. In addition, certain fixed configurations of the company's server products are available for purchase by end-user customers. A DDC-Server configured with a massive 1TB of shared memory, 192 cores of AMD Istanbul processors at 2.8 GHz, and 8TB of storage, all connected via an InfiniBand switch and complete with cables, Linux OS, and DDC-Pool software lists for $250,000. A DDC-Server with 256GB of shared memory, 96 cores of AMD Istanbul processors at 2.4 GHz, 4TB of storage with an InfiniBand switch, cables, Linux OS, and DDC-Pool software is listed at $99,000. Shipments begin in December 2009.

“The ‘distributed-and-shared’ nature of 3Leaf Systems technology transforms an enterprise datacenter into an agile provider of servers that dynamically re-size to the workload while using industry standard x86 servers,” said Bob Quinn, founder, chairman and CTO of 3Leaf Systems. “This reduces OpEx by minimizing operating system administration, power and cooling, and reduces CapEx by using cost-optimized (two socket) servers.”

The unique hardware-approach taken by 3Leaf Systems minimizes communication latency, maximizes data bandwidth, and provides the basic instrumentation and control structure for data center agility. These in turn improve workload and capacity optimization. For example, one or more instances of an OS can span many servers – or use fractions of servers – to adapt to changing needs or handle spikes in application traffic.

“What 3Leaf Systems is doing is a phenomenal leap forward for data center infrastructure,” said Steve Yatko, CTO and General Partner at Cresting Wave and formerly the head of global IT Research and Development at Credit Suisse. “With the kind of system agility and massive shared memory enabled by 3Leaf Systems technologies, new kinds of applications and business models are now possible for enterprise IT as well as cloud service providers.