Searchlight Solutions Ltd. (Pinksheets:SLLN - News) is a technology venture holding company that provides business development and high level management services for early stage technology companies who are pursuing the benefits of the public marketplace.
Searchlight Scientific Inc. is a next generation data services company focusing on developing and growing cloud based solutions to solve tomorrow's computing challenges. http://www.searchlightscientific.com
Linux Labs International Inc.
Making the power of high performance computing affordable
A Linux-based cluster or supercomputer can now do the work formerly reserved for a mainframe or a specialized minicomputer more cost effectively and in an expandable architecture.
Clusters and supercomputers offer greatly improved price/performance over other traditional options, but they require the expertise of engineers and architects familiar with this industry to understand, design, build and deploy. Linux Labs knows the subtleties and complex relationships between the various hardware, software and interconnect options out of which these powerful machines are assembled.
Linux Labs International has been working with their client's custom software application requests since their inception. In the field of HPC many open source and "home grown" applications require additional development to become commercially viable. Linux Labs has become one of the top experts in Linux development and has been entrusted to complete projects as simple as some online applications to complicated clustered architectures.
Our development skills have been utilized to develop the HPC solution for benchmarking a major manufacturer's silicon chips, as well as the payload calculations for mission critical military applications.
Single Node Quad Design Clusters Custom Application Development & Testing 1-500 Node Cluster Designs All Linux based OS available including our proprietary NimbusOS Trouble shooting for third party applications Expertise in system repair and rebuilding older systems Managed Services for systems colocated in our data center Design Consulting 24 x 7 Secure Private Data Center with UPS and tier 1 bandwidth Extensive expertise with FDS. Database programming - MySQL, PostgreSQL, FLAME (Fast Linking Associative Memory Engine) SW/Firmware/Engineering - Object-Oriented Design, LinuxBIOS, device drivers, kernel Myrinet and Infiniband
Excellence in Supercomputing Linux Labs Clusters and Services are purchased by corporations, universities, and government organizations around the world.
Below is a list of just a few of our clients that we have provided our services for over the years.
Clients ARUP American Museum of Natural History Bally Technologies Chicago Technical Institute Dahlgren Naval Sureface Warfare Center Los Alamos National Lab NASA NetMix Broadcasting Network Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rudolph Technologies Second Avenue Subway Project of New York Universities throughout the US, including University of Richmond, *University of Southern California,Rice University, University of New Mexico, Emory University and many others.
Linux Labs operates and provides the content for the www.linux.edu website.
Linux Labs co-develop wireless applications with our partner BlueShift Wireless.
Linux Labs offers custom AMD and Intel based configurations.
Linux Labs mission is to further develop our advanced technologies in these fields and to combine them with high performance networking applications.
Company Security Details
The Company’s common stock trades on the OTC Markets (www.otcmarkets.com or www.pinksheets.com) electronic interdealer quotation system under the OTC Markets Tier of OTC Pink.
Formerly=Electronic Manufacturing Solutions & Services, Inc. until 6-03 Formerly=Carter/Lambert Holdings, Inc. until 11-00 Note=7-99 company is in the development stage seeking a viable business or enterprise to acquire Year of Inc. 1995
Sector: 7370 - Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.
Recent Developments
What is HPC
“High-Performance Computing,” or HPC, is the application of “supercomputers” to computational problems that are either too large for standard computers or would take too long. A desktop computer generally has a single processing chip, commonly called a CPU. A HPC system, on the other hand, is essentially a network of nodes, each of which contains one or more processing chips, as well as its own memory.
Parallel Computing
Programs for HPC systems must be split up into many smaller “programs” called threads, corresponding to each core. To piece the larger program together, the cores must be able communicate with each other efficiently, and the system as a whole must be organized well.
Programs on HPC systems create a vast amount of data, which can be very difficult for standard file systems and storage hardware to deal with. Standard file systems, or those defined for personal use, might have an upper limit on file size, number of files, or total storage. HPC file systems must be able to grow to contain and quickly transfer large amounts of data. In addition to data in use, researchers often keep previous data for comparison or as a starting point for future projects. Older data is kept in archival storage systems. Kraken, for example, uses a magnetic tape storage system, which can store several petabytes (millions of gigabytes) of data.
Applications
Biochemistry Protein-folding attempts to determine the overall shape of a protein based on the sequence of amino acids; the effort may lead to better understanding of biological processes, and new medicines.
Protein-ligand interactions play a huge role in biological processes and are common targets for medicine. Refining computational models allows new medicines to be developed more efficiently.
Chemistry Materials research helps to identify new materials, such as high-temperature superconductors, affordable electrodes for fuel cells, efficient catalysts, new methods of energy storage, etc.
Physics Simulations of stars help astrophysicists interpret observations.
Environment Modeling The simulation of earthquakes can be startlingly complex. These simulations can be used to predict which areas are likely to experience a large earthquake, and what the conditions will be. This work helps inform building codes, development planning, and emergency action plans.
Weather patterns are notoriously difficult to predict. Supercomputers model weather around the country, and weather models are particularly important during hurricane season. Additionally, new computational models may be used with old data to gauge the models’ usefulness in predicting weather patterns. Global climate change is a contentious topic these days, in large part due to the extreme complexity of the problem. As computational models improve, we may be better informed in our policy decisions, and able to act in a more unified manner.
Industry Products: Prototyping is often an expensive and time-consuming process. Computer modeling can reduce the time and cost of physical prototyping and make optimization much easier. This process is essential not only for obvious industries such as the automotive, aerospace, and pharmaceutical industries, but a wide spectrum of consumer products, from dishwashers to potato chips. Services: Many corporations handle large amounts of data, and deal with complex routings or decisions. Insurers, for instance, use models to calculate risk, while the oil/gas industry uses seismographic data to determine where oil and gas fields are located underground. Wal-Mart optimizes supply chains, and Fed-Ex monitors and routes packages. The financial sector uses models to spot trends and calculate risks.
Recent Company News
Monday, July 18, 2011 Linux Labs Announces Agreement With Certichron, Inc., the Provable Time Company, to Provide Hosting for OATS Time Verification Service Marketwire (Mon, Jul 18)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Searchlight to Add Government IT Departments to List of Target Industries for Its HPC Cloud Services; It Is Estimated That the $20B of the Federal IT Budget Will Be Spent on Cloud Services in 2012 Marketwire (Wed, Jul 13)
Friday, June 24, 2011 Searchlight Comments on Its Opportunity in a Growing Cloud Computing Market, Which Is Expected to Grow to $241 Billion by 2020 Marketwire (Fri, Jun 24)
Thursday, June 9, 2011 Searchlight Scientific Announces Plans to Target Additional Industries Such as the Aerospace, Pharmaceutical and Genomics With Its HPC2(TM)("High Performance Cloud Computing") Service Marketwire (Thu, Jun 9)
Searchlight Scientific Announces Details of Their HPC2(TM) (High Performance Cloud Computing) Service Marketwire (Thu, Jun 9)
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Searchlight Solutions Provides Shareholder Update; Management Optimistic on Future of Cloud Computing Industry Marketwire (Wed, Jun 8)