Lane15 Software Showcases IBM DB2 Database Software Over InfiniBand Fabric and Latest Fabric Management Features.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers InfiniBand Solutions Conference SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2002 Lane15 Attains Sustained Rate Of 140-150MBs with Less Than Two Percent 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. Utilization Lane15(tm) Software, the leading provider of InfiniBand(tm) management software, today announced it will be demonstrating the high sustained data transfer rate capabilities of an InfiniBand subnet (SUBNETwork) A logical division of a local area network, which is created to improve performance and provide security. To enhance performance, subnets limit the number of nodes that compete for available bandwidth. using Lane15 management software during the InfiniBand Solutions Conference, April 9-11, 2002 at the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. The Lane15 Application Enabler(tm) product using the Lane15 Channel Interface and a Lane15 implementation of VIPL VIPL Virtual Interface Provider Library has shown a sustained rate of 140-150MBs with less than two percent CPU utilization. In related news, Lane15 Software will also showcase two new features of the Lane15 Fabric Manager. The first is support for multi-port/multi-HCA management capability within a single server and the second is fail-over capability. On display at the InfiniBand Solution Conference is an enterprise solution featuring IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 Database Software running unmodified Adj. 1. unmodified - not changed in form or character unqualified - not limited or restricted; "an unqualified denial" modified - changed in form or character; "their modified stand made the issue more acceptable"; "the performance of the modified aircraft over an InfiniBand subnet. DB2 supports the VIPL interface on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. and can exploit the InfiniBand fabric with its currently shipping release DB2 V7.2 EEE EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. . Applications, such as DB2, are expected to run over InfiniBand subnets that will deliver high-speed data transfers with low protocol overhead and OS bypass technology to yield high data throughput with minimal CPU overhead. This demonstration validates the Lane15 Application Enabler as an appropriate interface for high-speed, 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 access to InfiniBand subnets. "Lane15 management software running on IBM DB2 database software will provide data centers the performance, reliability and manageability customers need to gain more value from their e-business infrastructure," said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "The broad industry support for InfiniBand will increase the flexibility with which customers can combine the scalable capabilities of DB2 with high performance and low latency InfiniBand adapters and switches on a variety of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. ." "As data center planners begin to evaluate InfiniBand this year, the InfiniBand development community has to deliver the promises of both high performance and sustained availability," said Terry Dickson, vice president of marketing at Lane15 Software. "The availability of InfiniBand support in IBM DB2, coupled with high data transfer rates, and fail-over are pivotal as customers move into pilot programs for evaluating InfiniBand as part of their e-business infrastructure strategy." "InfiniBand Technology is poised to become a key part of the e-business infrastructure, delivering massively scalable, available, adaptive and easily managed networking infrastructure for the data center," said Vernon Turner, group vice president at IDC. "The Lane15 achievements in data transfer rates and support of DB2 over InfiniBand technology will be an important ingredient in the roll out of this technology." The LAE product consists of a Lane15 implementation of the InfiniBand-defined Communications Manager and VIPL channel driver supplying an industry standard protocol over InfiniBand hardware. The Lane15 Channel Interface is a state-driven implementation that handles the complexities of connection setup and tear down, then gets "out of the way" when it comes to data transfers by providing direct access to the Host Channel Adapter (HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. ) data transfer verbs. This year when IT managers evaluate InfiniBand solutions for their data centers, denser configurations of servers along with high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and fail-over features are expected to be important assessment criteria. The InfiniBand architecture is designed to be a robust, fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. fabric. The multi-port/multi-HCA management capability will allow denser server configurations for 2002 shipments. The Lane15 Fabric Manager subnet manager fail-over feature is crucial to achieving the high-level of reliability that the InfiniBand Architecture promises. The fail-over design allows for multiple subnet managers (SM) to participate on a fabric to backup a negotiated master SM. Lane15 is demonstrating the ability to recover a fabric when a master SM is removed from the fabric. A demonstration version of the Lane15 Fabric Console makes the SM fail-over functionality visible to users. About Lane15 Software Lane15 Software, headquartered in Austin, Texas is the leading provider of software for the development, testing and deployment of the new InfiniBand Architecture in corporate networks. Lane15's products are designed to help companies in data-intensive industries improve the flexibility, reliability, availability and scalability of their data centers by creating a more efficient way to connect and manage storage and communications networks and server clusters. Lane15 is an active member of 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 and participates in the association's Management Working Group, Marketing Working Group and its Compliance and Interoperability Working Group. For additional information about Lane15, visit www.lane15.com. InfiniBand(tm) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand(sm) Trade Association. All other names and brands are property of their respective owners. |
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