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Voltaire Showcases InfiniBand Interconnect Solutions

Voltaire, the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing showcased InfiniBand cluster technology at the Supercomputing (SC2004) show in Pittsburgh, PA. At the forefront of Voltaire's technology demonstrations were a 10 teraflops-sized cluster connected with a single Voltaire 288 port InfiniBand switch. Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect solutions enable high performance applications to run on industry standard server and storage platforms.

• "10 TFLOP-Off-The-Shelf" (10 TOTS) Demonstration: The "10TOTS" demonstration showed a 10 teraflop-sized cluster with nine high density racks from Ciara Technologies with Intel Xeon 3.6 GHx DP processors with EM64T and PCI Express technology connected with the Voltaire ISR 9288, a 288 port multi- protocol InfiniBand switch. In addition to delivering high performance and low latency to the cluster, the Voltaire ISR 9288 enables I/O aggregation and virtualization by allowing multiple servers to connect to storage and Ethernet networks via a Fibre Channel or Ethernet router blade integrated in the switch.
• OpenIB Demonstration (Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories): Several OpenIB Alliance members including Voltaire have won an Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) PathForward award from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a single, open-source software stack for InfiniBand. Under the terms of the award, Voltaire will lead the group to accelerate the production of a single stack to meet the scalability, performance, portability, reliability and manageability requirements of large clusters for the HPC community.
• StorCloud: Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect solutions are participating in the StorCloud demonstration, which showcases high performance storage technologies. StorCloud's "storage on request" area network capability comprised of state-of-the art heterogeneous devices and technology, supports researchers and demonstrates high bandwidth applications.
• AMD: HP demonstrated an AMD dual Opteron cluster connected with the Voltaire ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router.
• Apple Computer: The Voltaire ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router interconnects a 6-node, dual processor Apple Xserve G5 cluster.
• HP: The Voltaire ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router interconnected an 8- node, dual processor Xeon cluster.
• SGI: The Voltaire ISR 9024 InfiniBand switch router powered an Altix cluster of 8 processor systems.
• RLX: RLX demonstrated FLUENT computational fluid dynamics software on a 10- node Intel dual Xeon blade server cluster. Each blade connected to an integrated InfiniBand back plane connected to a Voltaire ISR 9024 InfiniBand switch router.
• California Digital: California Digital demonstrated Deja vu Reliability software and Deja Qu Preemptive scheduler on a dual processor Apple Xserve G5 cluster connected by a Voltaire ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router.
• Western Scientific: In this 16-node Opteron cluster, Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect solutions enabled a unified, shared, high performance storage system within a clustered Linux environment.

About Voltaire

Voltaire is the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing. Voltaire's InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage. For HPC customers, Voltaire leads the industry with the largest switch to support clusters scaling from hundreds to thousands of nodes. With business headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts, Voltaire is certified by the IBTA's Integrator's List. More information about Voltaire is available at http://www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.