25 April, 2012 - London, UK - Zunicore, the cloud division of PEER 1 Hosting, today announces it is developing a GPU hybrid cloud solution to offer businesses the combined benefits of deploying physical hardware seamlessly alongside virtual servers via secured network hardware.

Zunicore's physical GPU servers will provide a high-performance, flexible and cost-effective solution by developing a fusion of physical GPU hardware and wholly owned network hardware. It allows the GPUs to run at full speed, is cluster-capable and removes dependencies on third-party stacks.

Users can provision their GPUs in less than 15 minutes. Billing is on-demand, fully automated and charged hourly or monthly.

Greg Rusu, General Manager of Zunicore, said: "Businesses with intense graphics processing requirements should be able to enjoy the best of what virtualisation and physical hardware can offer over seamless secured networks. With Zunicore's hybrid solution we are fully focused on maximising performance while keeping down costs."

Key features:

• Ready to use in 15 minutes

• On demand, fully automated hourly billing

• nVidia GPUs at full speed

• Physical servers

  • Dual Xeon CPUs

  • 32MB RAM minimum

  • 400GB local storage

  • 1Gb Public and Private network

  • Easy 10Gb+ interconnect

• Fully-secured network

• Seamless Hybrid

• VMs + Physical Servers

• Up to 50 servers, extendable to 200

• Over 400 G-Flops

• Physical GPU

ENDS

About Zunicore
Built with the business professional in mind, Zunicore offers users a high degree of control and flexibility, and leverages the established infrastructure of PEER 1 Hosting's wholly-owned FastFiber Network™.

Zunicore's professional-grade cloud service allows users to benefit from customisable resource pools alongside preset virtual machines, hands-free auto-scaling and transparent pricing. FairPlay Pricing™ guarantees that customers pay only for what they use and are never locked into a long-term contract. The complexities of managing the cloud have driven many businesses away from the public cloud. With Zunicore's simple dashboard that shows users the resources being used, the amount of resource remaining, and options to increase or decrease resources, it is easier for companies to migrate to the cloud.