Fulcrum's FocalPoint Datacenter Ethernet Switch Selected by Quadrics for HPC Interconnect Product Family.Low Latency Switch Allows Quadrics This is an article about the computing company, for use in mathematics, see quadric. Quadrics is a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. to Expand Its Line of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Interconnects for Massively Parallel Computing CALABASAS, Calif. -- Fulcrum fulcrum: see lever. Microsystems today announced that Quadrics, a leader in massively parallel computing interconnect systems, has selected the FocalPoint FM2224 datacenter Ethernet switch chip as the basis of new switches in its QsTenG family of 10-Gigabit Ethernet products. Quadrics will launch the new solution in booth 1235 at the Supercomputing 06 tradeshow in Tampa, Fla. The two companies also agreed to continue to collaborate on future 10-Gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet product lines. The FM2224 is being used in Quadrics' QsTenG TG201 1U, a 24-port, single rack-unit 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch that comes in both CX-4 copper and XFP XFP 10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable Module XFP Extra-Fine-Pitch XFP Ten Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable optics versions. Future, higher port-count switches will use Quadrics federation software to build hierarchical "fat tree" networks of up to 3,456 ports. "Ten Gigabit Ethernet has become the platform of choice for next-generation data center applications, and Quadrics is poised to take full advantage of the transition with our QsTenG family of products," said Cristoforo Romanelli, 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 Quadrics. "The low latency of Fulcrum's silicon will enable our product to set the industry standard for line rate and make us the switch of choice in data centers." "FocalPoint switches are the ideal solution for HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. interconnect, as they have the low latency and throughput required for the federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. switch networks offered by Quadrics," said Bob Nunn, president and CEO of Fulcrum Microsystems. "To have a latency leader like Quadrics choose FocalPoint for its next generation of standards-based interconnect systems is a significant achievement for Fulcrum." The QsTenG TG201 1U features 12 ports on the base board and 12 ports on a mezzanine board, a single power supply, front to back airflow and reversible rack mounting. The CX-4 copper version has a latency of 200ns while its fixed optics 10GBase-SR counterpart boasts 400ns of latency. The 1U versions are the first in the QsTenG family of 10-Gigabit Ethernet platforms in which Quadrics will feature Fulcrum chips. Additionally, the two industry leaders plan to collaborate on Gigabit Ethernet platforms. FocalPoint switches feature an industry-leading 200 nanoseconds (ns) of total latency. The switches combine this low latency with non-blocking throughput, the highest level of integration and the greatest power efficiency, to become the cost-effective and high-performance choice for storage, computing/networking backplane and interconnect applications. About Quadrics Quadrics (www.quadrics.com) is a leading developer and supplier of high performance networking products for massively parallel systems. Quadrics has its HQ in the UK and local offices in the US, China and Italy. Quadrics Ltd. is fully owned by Alenia Aeronautica, one of Europe's leading corporations and part of the Finmeccanica Group (www.finmeccanica.com). The world's leading vendors and system integrators, as well as major supercomputing centres such as Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, 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 , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of nine United States Department of Energy (DOE) multiprogram national laboratories. The laboratory PNNL is located in Richland, Washington, and operates a marine research facility in Sequim, Washington. and Sandia National Laboratory have selected Quadrics for their High Performance Computing environments. About Fulcrum Microsystems Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. focused on developing interconnect switch chips for next-generation board and system designs. The company's devices change the paradigm for interconnect, offering low latency, fine-grained flow control, and high throughput which combine to simplify board design and to build in more flexibility and higher performance. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com. |
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