Audi Selects Voltaire to Help Advance Auto Safety Standards with HP Supercomputer.Auto Industry's Fastest Supercomputer Increases Safety Simulation Throughput and Helps Speed up Design Time of Vehicle Development BILLERICA, Mass. & HERZELIYA, Israel -- Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : VOLT), a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for data centers, today announced that Audi has implemented Voltaire's Grid Director[TM] switches as part of an HP supercomputer to advance Audi's auto safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. . This is the auto industry's fastest supercomputer and is ranked No. 81 on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. system helps save days of computing time along with unnecessary costs for vehicle safety simulations. The use of Voltaire InfiniBand switches and software for the supercomputer's cluster interconnect greatly improves the simulation software's performance, allowing for deeper and faster analysis and decreasing the design time needed for new car models. Audi's 29.184-teraflop (peak performance) system is based on HP Cluster Platform 3000BL, a system built using 608 nodes supporting HP ProLiant BL460c server blades connected by Voltaire Grid Director[TM] 9024 20 Gigabits/second (Gbps) double data rate (DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory ) InfiniBand switches. The system uses ESI's PAM-CRASH 2G simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. to perform crash simulations for various Audi car models. Voltaire Grid Director switches use 20 Gbps InfiniBand technology, which provides high bandwidth and very low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as to enhance the infrastructure and application performance. The switches provide the throughput and scalability needed to capture the full power of the servers to calculate the tremendous volumes of data generated during the simulation process. The HP supercomputer enables Audi to run more model simulations overnight, thus ensuring an effective design process that enhances the analysis of the safety elements of its vehicles. "We are working with HP and ESI (Edge Side Includes) A markup language for Web pages that enables elements of a Web page to be dynamically assembled in servers distributed throughout the Internet. Group to provide Audi with a high-performance system that helps them design better and safer cars more efficiently," said Asaf Somekh, vice president of strategic alliances, Voltaire. "By including Voltaire's 20 Gbps switches into its solution, Audi can speed up design time for new car models, saving costs and positively impacting the bottom line." "Audi has slashed days off the computing time required for vehicle safety simulations through its HP high-performance computing system running on Voltaire switches, lowering overall costs," said Ed Turkel, manager, product and solution marketing, Scalable Computing & Infrastructure, HP. "HP's optimized clustered solutions for computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer applications enable customers to run more complex simulations faster, speeding time to result and delivering tangible return on investment quickly." About Voltaire Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT) designs and develops server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal within the data center. Voltaire refers to its server and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire Grid Backbone([TM]). Voltaire's products leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based driver and management software. Voltaire's solutions have been sold to a wide range of end customers including governmental, research and educational organizations, as well as enterprises in the manufacturing, oil and gas, entertainment, life sciences and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industries. Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, and has its U.S. headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica (IPA: [bɪl.'ɹɪ.kə]) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,981 at the 2000 census. Its name is pronounced "bill-RICK-a", rather than rhyming with America. . More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. Forward Looking Statements Information provided in this press release may contain statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally relate to the Voltaire's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations and are based upon management's current estimates and projections of future results or trends. Actual future results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These factors include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Voltaire's annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2008. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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