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| 4.29.08 |
Microsoft Education Incentives:
Free Projectors, USB Hard Drives and More
 Enhance the classroom experience by taking advantage
of FREE* hardware accessories when you purchase PCs preinstalled
with a qualified version of genuine Windows Vista Ultimate
or Windows Vista Business
Click
here for details
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| 1.25.08 |
REASON
Surveillance Solution highlighted in D-Link Case Study
 Minneapolis
Airport Hanger Operator Reduces Insurance Cliams with
D-Link IP Surveillance Solution
"REASON's client wanted to eliminate their analog equipment
and replace it with digital equipment that could be accessed
by multiple people within their organization, including
quality managers, upper management and line personnel..."
Read the Case Study PDF
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| 11.30.07 |
Voyageur
Mini & Mountable PCs are now available through REASON
 Finally
a personal computer that realizes desk space is as important
as disk space. Powerful, quiet and efficient,
the ultra-small form factor Voyageur Mini PC is the perfect
fit for even the smallest home office. But don't let its
size fool you, with Intel Core 2 Duo technology and Windows
Vista Home Premium, this little PC proves that big things
really do come in small packages.
Also available through
REASON, The Voyageur Mountable PC, ideal for digital signage,
kiosks, point-of-sale or
anywhere else you want a PC hanging around
More about
the Voyageur Mini PC
More about the Voyageur Mountable PC
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| 1.30.07 |
Windows
Vista & Office 2007 released
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| 11.22.06 |
Reason
Featured in CRN Article
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| 09.01.06 |
Reason Virtual Video Tour Now Live
Reason has just launched a virtual video tour of their facilities, as well as interviews with several members of their executive staff. The video covers the history of Reason, their wide product offering, and goes into the company's engineering expertise as well as its superior, local customer service.
Click here to view the view the video online
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| 05.16.06 |
Reason Ships Another CFD HPC Cluster to Major University
 Reason just completed the shipment of another Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) HPC cluster for basic research at a major university. The 55 node Beowulf CFD cluster will be used for the study of reservoir and dam modeling as well as blood flow. Benchmarks showed a performance in excess of One TFLOP (trillion floating point operations per second). Each node of the cluster was built using two AMD Opteron Dual-Core CPU's which effectively yields a 220 CPU cluster. Key elements of the cluster are:
- Centos 4.3 for X86_64 Linux OS
- Warewulf Clustering Software
- Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Scheduling and Resource Manager
- MPICH2 Cluster Messaging Protocol
- Ganglia Cluster Monitoring Tool
- IPMI Hardware Management
- Myrinet 2000 Series Intra-cluster Communications Switches
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| 04.06.06 |
Reason
Added to WSCA for Okidata printers
Reason was chosen by Okidata to be one of the select national resellers of their printer products for the WSCA contract which serves 15 states. Reason was chosen due our relationships in the educational and government sector.
About the Western States Contracting Alliance
The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) was formed in October 1993 by the state purchasing directors from fifteen NASPO western states. The primary purpose is to establish the means by which participating states may join together in cooperative multi-State contracting in order to achieve cost-effective and efficient acquisition of quality products and services. Cooperative purchases are developed by member states. |
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| 04.01.06 |
Reason
Announces Merger with Shea PC to Form One of the Largest Computer Resellers in the Twin Cities
Shea PC and Reason, two leading providers of custom configured computing solutions, formally announce today that corporate operations have combined to form one of the largest and fastest growing system builders in the United States.
The new company will be doing business as Reason going forward. Reason is confident this expansion will provide tremendous opportunities for new customer services and product offerings as well as allow high-level access to some of the largest vendors in the computing industry including Microsoft, Intel, and AMD. With a combined thirty years in business, the combination of Shea PC and Reason will bring a new level of expertise to our customers.
Reason will be located in a state of the art facility in Burnsville, Minnesota. This 60,000 square foot building features a large manufacturing center, research and development hub, on-site daycare, and other features that will provide better opportunities to serve customers.
Customer questions can be directed towards Reason sales representatives.
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| 08.22.05 |
Reason
Rides Leading Edge in HPC Computing
 Reason has been providing High Performance
Computing Solutions for the last 5 years and has been in the
industry for 20 years. Our expertise and demand for excellence
has gravitated us to the forefront of this industry.
Reason continues to provide excellence in HPC Computing with the most recent Visualization cluster “Geowall2” delivered
in the Telecom Industry. This Visualization Cluster is being utilized as a Research and Marketing solution.
Reason is currently deploying systems using IMPI Ver. 2.0 which allows remote management of your HPC Clusters.
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| 04.08.05 |
 Reason
Ships Another Beowulf HPC Cluster
Reason has recently shipped another
Beowulf Open Source Linux based HPC (High Performance Computing)
cluster computer for doing Computational Fluid Dynamics work
within the a department of a major university. The HPC cluster
had a master node and multiple compute nodes all based on
dual Opteron™ 64-bit servers. The OS and all applications
are 64-bit to take advantage of the power that 64-bit computing
brings to users.
Reason built its first clusters five years ago and has the capability and
experience to build custom HPC clusters implementing Open Source Linux, Warewulf Cluster Management, Ganglia, PVM, Tough2,
Itough2, MATLAB®, MATLAB® Distributed Computing, LAM-MPI
as well as many other Open Source based products. |
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| 04.05.05 |
Managed
PCs from Reason
Reason has the ability to customize DMI information
for each system
we ship to assist our customer with asset management and tracking. The
customized DMI information can include computer serial number, model number/name,
manufacturer name,
and various other information related the
management of servers, desktops or notebooks.
Many
Reason customers are taking advantage of this feature to manage
their computer assets enterprise wide with products like Altiris™ or Microsoft
Systems Management Server as well as other enterprise management solutions. |
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| 03.03.05 |
The
New York Times Highlights Geowall
Based on the recent success of Geowall in the education field, the
New York Times wrote about how that success has spawned next-generation
efforts aimed more at researchers than students. |
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| 12.01.04 |
Reason
Now Offering Tablet PCs
Reason has teamed with Viewsonic to implement successful Tablet rollouts
to major Hospital Institutions. These rollouts include Installation and
Training programs. |
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| 11.18.04 |
Pioneer
Press Reviews Media Center PCs
St. Paul's Pioneer Press newspaper reviewed Media Center PCs and referred
to Reason's offering as a "best bet". |
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| 01.16.04 |
Reason's
Tier-One Athlon 64 Machine is a Corporate Cracker
The Inquirer reviews Reason's Tier-One Athlon 64 PC and claims all its features
and value "make it a very compelling
option for your next corporate upgrade". |
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| 11.17.03 |
Athlon
64 Chip Gives Users a Reason to Buy
Pioneer Press article which discusses why Reason believes
the Athlon 64 is "the future of personal computing..." |
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REASON
has everything you need to know if you're considering
the upgrade to Microsoft's newest offerings.
Researchers
at the University of Minnesota benefit from a custom cluster
of Advanced Micro Devices Opteron servers running Linux
and tied together with proprietary high-speed networking
gear assembled by Reason. 
