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Voltaire Solutions Continue to Drive InfiniBand Growth on Top500 List
SPECIAL COVERAGE FROM ISC2006-- Voltaire today announced that the company's InfiniBand-based Grid Backbone switching solutions are powering fourteen of the world's fastest supercomputers as ranked on the Top500 list released this week. This includes two of the top ten sites on the list: NASA's Columbia supercomputer and the GSIC Center at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Voltaire Grid Backbone solutions deliver industry-leading performance and networking efficiency to enable highly scalable clusters and distributed computing architectures. The Top500 list, published twice a year prior to the International Supercomputer Conference held this week in Dresden, Germany, and the Supercomputing Conference held in November, ranks supercomputers worldwide according to their performance on the LINPACK benchmark. The number of InfiniBand-based supercomputers grew 33 percent from the November 2005 list and 150 percent from the June 2005 list and is largely fueled by new deployments of Voltaire solutions. The majority of the Voltaire installations leverage the Voltaire Grid Director ISR 9288, the industry's highest port count multi-service switch with InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel integrated into a single chassis. The solution is used by businesses and research institutions around the globe to build high-performance clusters and grids ranging from hundreds to thousands of nodes.
A selection of Voltaire customers on the list include: NASA Ames, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Trinity College Dublin, Sandia National Laboratories, and NERSC/LBNL.
The Voltaire InfiniBand-based clustered supercomputers on the list were delivered through the broadest representation of partners; more than double that of other InfiniBand systems vendors. These server and reseller partners include: HP, IBM, SGI, Sun, NEC, Dell, Appro, and LinuxNetworx.
"The growth of InfiniBand and decline of proprietary-based interconnects in the latest Top500 list is indicative of overall trends in high performance clustered computing in both the HPC and enterprise markets," said Patrick Guay, senior vice president, marketing, Voltaire. "With the addition of 20 Gb/second solutions to our product portfolio earlier this year, we expect additional customers to be able to achieve world-class performance and scalability in the coming months. We congratulate and thank our customers for reporting their use of Voltaire InfiniBand-based solutions to the June 2006 Top500 list."
A selection of Voltaire customers on the list include: NASA Ames, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Trinity College Dublin, Sandia National Laboratories, and NERSC/LBNL.
The Voltaire InfiniBand-based clustered supercomputers on the list were delivered through the broadest representation of partners; more than double that of other InfiniBand systems vendors. These server and reseller partners include: HP, IBM, SGI, Sun, NEC, Dell, Appro, and LinuxNetworx.
"The growth of InfiniBand and decline of proprietary-based interconnects in the latest Top500 list is indicative of overall trends in high performance clustered computing in both the HPC and enterprise markets," said Patrick Guay, senior vice president, marketing, Voltaire. "With the addition of 20 Gb/second solutions to our product portfolio earlier this year, we expect additional customers to be able to achieve world-class performance and scalability in the coming months. We congratulate and thank our customers for reporting their use of Voltaire InfiniBand-based solutions to the June 2006 Top500 list." 