SYSTEMS

40 Gb/s Connectivity Enables Customers to Harness Full Capacity of the New Nehalem Intel Xeon Processor 5500-based HP ProLiant G6 Server Platforms: Voltaire today announced that its 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch, the Grid Director 4036 is available for the HP Cluster Platforms based on new HP ProLiant G6 servers.

“Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s switch brings heightened levels of bandwidth and performance to HP’s scale-out solutions,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “The extra bandwidth and I/O throughput provided by Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s switches enables customers to extract the full processing power of the new HP ProLiant G6 server platforms. This switch is ideally suited to customers designing next generation scale-out solutions with an eye towards performance, scalability, energy efficiency and manageability.”

The Voltaire Grid Director 4036 features 36 ports of 40 Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity and ultra-low latency to accelerate performance of applications running on clusters of servers and storage. The switch optimizes I/O throughput for multi-core servers to improve the performance of high performance applications in industries including manufacturing, energy, financial services, life sciences, government, and research and education. The switch features a compact design, low power consumption, and redundant, hot-swappable power options enabling easy integration into highly dense and energy efficient data centers.

“Customers are looking for scalable and efficient ways to improve their overall system performance in order to bring products to market faster,” said Ed Turkel, product marketing manager, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization, HP. “HP Cluster Platforms along with Voltaire’s Grid Director 4036 switch allows customers to accelerate their high performance applications to increase productivity and improve energy efficiency.”

Availability
The HP Cluster Platforms with Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand are available today through HP.