Linux Networx and SilverStorm Technologies Announce Contract to Support Five New Defense Department Supercomputers.KING OF PRUSSIA King of Prussia, industrialized suburban area (1990 pop. 18,406), Montgomery co., SE Pa. It has glass and steel fabricating, food processing, printing and publishing, and varied manufacturing (textiles, liquified petroleum gas, water-treatment and electrical , Pa. -- SilverStorm Fabric Director and Edge Fabric Switch products to provide 20 Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect backbone for DoD Technology Insertion 2006 Supercomputers SilverStorm Technologies, the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, and Linux Networx, The Linux Supercomputing Company, announced today that SilverStorm has been awarded a contract from Linux Networx to provide the high speed interconnect NVIDIA's High Speed Interconnect (often abbreviated to 'HSI') chip was used in their early PCI Express graphics cards, where it acted as a bridge between the PCI Express connection to the computer and the natively AGP GPU. fabrics for five supercomputing clusters Linux Networx will be providing the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a recently announced High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP HPCMP High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD) HPCMP High-Performance Computer Monitoring Project ) project. Linux Networx will deliver four Linux supercomputers featuring SilverStorm's interconnect fabrics to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL ARL - ASSET Reuse Library ) Major Shared Resource Sharing a peripheral device (disk, printer, etc.) among several users. For example, a file server and laser printer in a LAN are shared resources. Contrast with shared logic. Center, including three Advanced Technology Clusters (ATCs) and one LS-1 Supersystem. Linux Networx will deliver a fifth system, an LS-1 featuring SilverStorm's interconnect fabrics, to the Dugway Proving Ground Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in southern Tooele County. It encompasses 801,505 acres (3,243.576 km², or 1,252. . These supercomputers will increase the center's computing capability to over 80 trillion floating-point operations, making it one of the largest computing centers within the Department of Defense. Two of the new supercomputers are expected to rank in the top twenty of the world's most powerful computer systems when completed and will be the most capable in the DoD. The systems are part of the Technology Insertion 2006 (TI-06) program, an initiative to modernize the Department of Defense high performance computing (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. ) capabilities. The HPCMP provides the supercomputer services, high-speed network communications, 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. expertise that enable the U.S. Defense laboratories, such as ARL, to conduct a wide range of focused research, development, and test activities. "We are excited about supporting our partner, Linux Networx, with industry leading interconnect technology in support of such an important program," said Reini Florin, SilverStorm's Vice President of Marketing. "Using SilverStorm products to build-out these advanced supercomputers will help the defense department improve the safety of U.S. armed forces by bringing new weapons systems online more quickly and more cost effectively." "The SilverStorm Fabric Director and Edge Fabric Switch products were a good fit for the DoD project. The ability to support both 20 Gb/s InfiniBand DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory switching and 10 Gb/s Ethernet interconnect in a single integrated platform provided a key functional value-add for the overall cluster network design," said Joshua Harr, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Linux Networx. "SilverStorm's proven experience in deploying large cluster computing fabrics was also a deciding factor in our interconnect partner selection." SilverStorm's award winning 9000 series Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors and 9024 Edge Fabric Switches will be used to interconnect more than 7,500 computing cores. The 9000 platform is a highly integrated switching solution that supports a throughput capacity of 11.52 Tb/s, up to 288 InfiniBand switch ports, up to 48 10 Gb/s Ethernet ports and up to 192 Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis. SilverStorm's QuickSilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. High Performance Fabric Access and FastFabric software suite will provide interconnect performance management, diagnostics and control for the ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered and LS-Series Supercomputing clusters. The Linux Networx ATCs are especially well suited for organizations that wish to pioneer new technologies, new programming models or new levels of supercomputing scale. Linux Networx works with customers and technology partners to identify and integrate emerging and proven technologies into a production-ready system. The LS Series is a family of Linux Supercomputers that delivers application-tuned computational and visualization performance. The LS-1 series includes Linux Supersystems specifically tuned to power ultimate performance and throughput for industry-leading applications in the areas of computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve , crash analysis, structural engineering, flow simulation, and interactive 3D visualization. Leveraging LS-1 Supersystems' on-board application tuning capabilities, Linux Networx application experts also work with customers to tune LS-1 performance to optimally power in-house application codes. LS-1 Supersystems deliver price/performance value beyond the compute platform, integrating optimized storage solutions, including global files systems, as well as visualization capabilities where appropriate - to deliver a comprehensive Linux Supercomputing system. About SilverStorm Technologies SilverStorm Technologies is the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing. SilverStorm designs, manufactures and services a family of networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve cluster performance and scalability. SilverStorm solutions power some of the world's largest supercomputers in diverse fields including Oil and Gas exploration, Automotive and Aerospace design, Financial Services, Bio Medical and University/Government Research. SilverStorm customers include 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 , Riken Research Institute, Virginia Tech University, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, Sun Microsystems, 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. , Intel and Canon. Several customers listed on the TOP500 list of supercomputers have SilverStorm products installed. For more information, visit www.silverstorm.com or contact info@silverstorm.com. About Linux Networx For over a decade Linux Networx has delivered Linux Supercomputers specifically designed to drive new levels of Total Application Throughput for our customers. The company's Linux Supercomputing offerings power unrivaled value in application-tuned price/performance and utilization, overall system reliability, uptime and Total Cost of Operations. The company has delivered over 450 supercomputing clusters to more than 165 supercomputing customers around the world. In 2005, the company achieved record orders, finishing the year with three consecutive quarters of record growth. Our global customer base represents a "who's who" of supercomputing users ranging from Boeing in aerospace; BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , Daimler Chrysler, Audi, Caterpillar and John Deere in heavy manufacturing; Total, Schlumberger and Shell Oil in the Oil and Gas industry; and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and the Department of Defense in the government arena. In 2005 the company was awarded three HPCWire Editor and Reader's Choice Awards - for Most Innovative Technology in two categories and for Best Price/Performance. For more information about Linux Networx, visit www.linuxnetworx.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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