Cross-Continental InfiniBand Cluster Staged for Deployment at Supercomputing 2005; OpenIB Interoperable Software Sparks World's Largest Heterogeneous InfiniBand Server and Storage Grid Deployment.SEATTLE -- The OpenIB Alliance today announced that nearly thirty organizations are confirmed to showcase the world's largest, cross-continental InfiniBand data center in conjunction with SCinet at next week's Supercomputing 2005 conference (SC/05) in Seattle, Washington (Washington State Convention and Trade Center The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is a convention center located next to and over Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, Washington, adjacent to Freeway Park. Planning for its construction began in 1982; construction began in 1985, and the center opened on June 18, 1988. ). The SCinet InfiniBand cluster will host over 6TFlops of supercomputing performance, which would rank the cluster as high as 50 on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. In addition, the SCinet InfiniBand fabric will have direct access to native attached InfiniBand storage solutions hosted by the StorCloud initiative. The strong industry mix of InfiniBand component vendors, infrastructure equipment suppliers, software vendors, and research and university end-users that are participating include: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Ames Laboratory, Appro, ASUS ASUS Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (Queen's University) ASUS Air Support Squadron (USAF) ASUS Annual Support & Update Service ASUS Administrative Support/Utilization , Cisco, Cornell Theory Center Cornell Theory Center - (CTC) One of four supercomputing centers funded by the US National Science Foundation. The CTC also receives funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, New York State, IBM Corporation, and other members of the , Dell, Emcore, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, IWILL USA Corp., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. , Mellanox, Microsoft, NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. , Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National , Obsidian Research, Pathscale, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse Electric Company. PSC was founded in 1986 by its two Scientific Directors, Dr. Ralph Roskies of University of Pittsburgh and Dr. , Rackable, RedHat, Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New , Silicon Graphics, SilverStorm, Sun Microsystems, Tyan Computer, and Voltaire SC/05 participants with the OpenIB Alliance will use the OpenIB software stack for both Linux and Windows host systems, and the OpenIB subnet manager (OpenSM) will manage the entire Infiniband network. The availability of the OpenIB stack from all vendors is the industry's solution to widespread interoperability and mass deployment of InfiniBand fabrics in data centers for enterprise and performance computing. The SCinet InfiniBand fabric locally interconnects participating booths on the SC/05 exhibit floor via InfiniBand over MPO MPO myeloperoxidase. MPO Myeloperoxidase, see there multi-mode fiber using Emcore SmartLink modules. The three remote InfiniBand clusters are at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Intel Dupont facility in Washington, and the Naval Research Laboratory Noun 1. Naval Research Laboratory - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines NRL in Virginia. These locations are connected through the wide area network (WAN) point of presence for SCinet, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop at Washington University, and utilize optical long-haul equipment from Ciena, Cisco, and Juniper running over networks provided by Abilene, Esnet, Internet2, National LambdaRail, and Qwest. At each endpoint, InfiniBand over optical (either DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing or SONET OC192) is converted by Longbow XRs from Obsidian Research. The Longbow enables globally distributed InfiniBand fabrics to seamlessly cross connect by encapsulating 4X InfiniBand over OC-192c SONET, ATM, or 10GbE WANs at full InfiniBand data rates. The conversion is totally transparent to the InfiniBand fabric and is interoperable with OpenIB's software stack and subnet manager. The SCinet InfiniBand network will also be directly connected to native InfiniBand storage solutions using standard block-level, file-level, and clustered-file system technologies. Hosted by the StorCloud initiative at SC/05, this cluster of native InfiniBand storage solutions highlights the wide availability and end-user demand for higher performance, lower latency storage solutions. "The significant vendor participation in the SCinet InfiniBand network is a testament to the remarkable progress by the developers of the OpenIB open-source software stack which was substantially funded by the DOE NNSA ASC ASC Ambulatory surgery center, see there PathForward program," said Bill Boas, Vice-Chair of OpenIB. "InfiniBand is the lowest latency, highest bandwidth fabric for data center and performance computing applications today. The multi-vendor interoperability at SC/05 validates its success and verifies the widespread acceptance of OpenIB by customers." Additional information about the OpenIB network at SC/05 is available at http://sc05.supercomputing.org/exhibits/scinet.php. About OpenIB Alliance The OpenIB Alliance is an industry association chartered to deliver a single, open-source Linux-based and Windows-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand. Founded in June 2004, the OpenIB Alliance is comprised of technology vendors and end-user organizations including: AMD; Appro; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Data Direct Networks, Inc.; Dell; Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.; Intel; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Linux Networx; Mellanox Technologies; Network Appliance; Oracle Corporation; PathScale; Rackable Systems; Sandia National Laboratories; Silicon Graphics; SilverStorm Technologies; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Tyan Computer; Veritas Software; and Voltaire. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available at www.openib.org. About InfiniBand InfiniBand is an industry-standard interconnect technology defined by the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and for the purpose of delivering exceptional I/O fabric performance demanded by data centers, high-performance computing, and embedded environments. Today, InfiniBand solutions provide high-bandwidth, low-latency 10 and 20Gb/s server-to-server and server-to-storage connections, and 30Gb/s and 60Gb/s switch-to-switch connections with a defined roadmap to 120Gb/s performance. InfiniBand architecture standardizes remote-direct-memory-access (RDMA) and 100% reliable transport--hallmark capabilities for the industry's lowest latency, highest bandwidth network or fabric available today. With the InfiniBand industry delivering affordable server, storage, and network platforms, open-source, interoperable software stacks, cluster, grid, storage and virtualization solutions, InfiniBand is the optimal fabric technology for world-class computing. US Department of Energy NNSA ASC PathForward PathForward is a technology vendor partnership project of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program -- an integral and vital element of our nation's Stockpile Stewardship Program, by which the U.S. ensures confidence in the safety, security, and reliability of its nuclear stockpile. The OpenIB Infiniband PathForward is a joint project with Cisco, Intel, and Voltaire. Through PathForward, ASC strives to make strategic, targeted investments with its vendor partners to accelerate the development of hardware and software technologies needed to ensure that complete, balanced systems for capability and capacity computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are available in the marketplace for out-year procurements by the program. SC/05 is sponsored by ACM and IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. . InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners. |
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