CHELSIO DELIVERS 10GB ETHERNET UNIFIED WIRE FOR IBM BLADECENTER.Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., a leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet unified wire solutions, today announced availability of its T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, which enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single platform. The Unified Wire interconnect solution has been qualified by industry organization Blade.org for use with IBM BladeCenter The IBM BladeCenter is IBM's blade server architecture. History Originally introduced in 2002, based on engineering work started in 1999, the IBM BladeCenter was a relative late comer to the blade market. enterprise servers. The S320em-bc from Chelsio, an active Blade.org member, is a dual-port 10Gb Ethernet adapter The Ethernet hardware required to attach to an Ethernet network. It typically resides on an expansion board, but is sometimes built into the motherboard. An Ethernet adapter is required in each client and server. See Ethernet and network adapter. with PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. interface optimized for storage applications. The T3-based card offloads TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , iSCSI and iWARP RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) A communications protocol that provides transmission of data from the memory of one computer to the memory of another without involving the CPU. InfiniBand, Virtual Interface (VI) and RDMA Over IP are all forms of RDMA. processing from the host system, freeing up host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles for other applications. Chelsio's 10Gb iWARP adapter is the only one in the industry accepted into the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution. As such, this card can run InfiniBand applications on Ethernet. Further, when combined with Chelsio's commercial grade iSCSI target stack, it can run Fibre Channel applications on Ethernet. The adapter consumes only 16W, making it also the lowest power solution of its type in the market. The S320em-bc offers an integrated traffic manager and classification engine. It can shape and pace traffic on a per connection basis or per class basis for such applications as video on demand, converged clustering and storage traffic. It can further examine traffic at line rate and compare against tens of thousands of rules using bitwise Dealing with bits rather than larger structures such as a byte. For example, each of the eight bits in a byte can be used as an individual flag to signal yes/no, on/off (1 or 0) about some condition. The Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT also deal with individual bits rather than bytes. masks and wild cards for use in firewall and sniffing applications. T3 further offers integrated virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. facilities that allow running of multiple guest operating systems on the same card. The above facilities can be further combined with each other to allow a host of traffic engineering features unique to T3. "Blade.org is proud to have Chelsio deliver its 10Gb Ethernet accelerator technology as part of IBM's growing BladeCenter solutions," said Doug Balog, chairman for Blade.org. "Chelsio is one of the leading 10Gb Ethernet adapter companies, and we share a vision of accelerating the adoption of server blades in the mainstream marketplace." "We are excited to have our T3-based adapters available today for the IBM BladeCenter," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Chelsio. "Our Unified Wire is the highest performance 10GB Ethernet interface technology available and it enables the convergence of storage, clustering, and server networking applications onto a single unified fabric. The additional traffic management, classification, and virtualization functions will further relieve the host CPU of the burden of all byte-touching operations at 10GbE." The S320em-bc is list priced at $895 and is available from Bell Microproducts, Chelsio's distribution partner. About Chelsio Communications Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven unified wire technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications. For more information, visit http://www.chelsio.com or call 925/606-6936. |
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