Chiaro Networks' Steve Wallach on Panel Presenting 'The Future of Supercomputing' Report.PITTSBURGH -- Panel Discussion, Part of SC2004 Conference, will be the First Comprehensive Public Presentation of the National Academy of Sciences Report Chiaro Networks, developer of true infrastructure-class IP/MPLS IP/MPLS Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching routing platforms, today announced that Steven J. Wallach, the company's vice president of technology and a luminary in the field of supercomputers, is a member of a panel announcing results and discussing a report on "The Future of Supercomputing," which is being published today. The panel, also called The Future of Supercomputing, will be held at 8:30 am on Friday, November 12, the last day of SC2004, the High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference. The Future of Supercomputing report presents the results of a study, begun in 2003, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB CSTB Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment (France) CSTB Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (NRC) CSTB Computer Science and Technology Board CSTB Computer Science and Telecommunication Board ). Wallach is one of 18 experts in computer and computational science | Computational science (or scientific computing) is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical solution techniques and using computers to analyze and solve scientific, social scientific and engineering problems. from across industry, academia and national laboratories who have been conducting the study. "People are sometimes surprised that a supercomputing expert like me now works for a company that makes networking equipment -- albeit a new class of super-routers -- but I always point out that today's telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. are really the supercomputers of tomorrow, thanks to 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 technologies and the convergence of computing and communications," said Wallach. "The Future of Supercomputing report addresses the future of supercomputing and the design of high-performance systems. Personally, I believe that many of these systems will be Grid-enabled, and thus require extremely high-performance communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. ." The CSTB report on The Future of Supercomputing will answer questions such as: What is the current state of high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. , both in the U.S. and internationally? What innovations are "in the pipeline" to improve that state? What are the driving applications that require supercomputing today? How can we invest to ensure future leadership in high-performance computing? Enstara: the First Infrastructure-Class IP/MPLS Platform The Chiaro Enstara(TM) router, the world's first highly available infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform, defines infrastructure-class with the ultra reliability versatility and product longevity required to alleviate telecommunications carriers' "crisis of cost." Integrating a number of Chiaro technological breakthroughs -- and the result of applying expertise in the fields of networking, supercomputing, telecommunications and photonics -- the intelligent, carefully architected Enstara platform is the first to meld aspects of all these disciplines. As a result, it leads to no less than the transformation of IP networks. The same qualities that make the Enstara platform ideally suited for next-generation IP networks -- notably, ultra reliability, scalability, flexibility and line-speed performance -- also make it ideally suited for Grid applications. As a company, Chiaro Networks has embraced the vision of what Grids can and should become, and its telecommunications products are helping companies worldwide to move steadily toward Grid computing of the future. The Enstara IP/MPLS routing platform offers real value now, by helping service providers overcome their crisis of cost and begin gaining the efficiencies and economies associated with converging their disparate networks onto a unified IP infrastructure. At the same time, the Enstara platform was architected from the outset to pave the way for the future capabilities of Grid computing, as envisioned by today's best thinkers. About Chiaro Networks Chiaro Networks is the provider of the Enstara(TM) router, the industry's first highly available infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform. The company, with headquarters in Richardson, Texas Richardson is a suburb in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 91,803, while according to a 2006 estimate, the population had grown to 99,200. , has developed the Enstara portfolio with the goal of solving the "crisis of cost" issues facing service providers, reducing capital expenditures per PoP by more than 60 percent. With strong support from the venture capitalist Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. and technology communities, Chiaro has secured $210 million to date from backers such as Intel Capital, Siemens Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. and STAR Ventures. The company also boasts a Technology Advisory Board that comprises business leaders and academics from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . For more information on the company, visit www.chiaro.com. Chiaro Networks and Enstara are trademarks of Chiaro Networks. Chiaro Networks disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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