SilverStorm Technologies Awarded Contract to Support Supercomputing Project for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.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. -- Subhead should read: SilverStorm's 9000 Series Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors to Provide 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR Cluster Computing Interconnect Backbone (sted SilverStorm's 9000 Series Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors to Provide 0Gb/s InfiniBand DDR Cluster Computing Interconnect Backbone) The corrected release reads: SILVERSTORM TECHNOLOGIES AWARDED CONTRACT TO SUPPORT SUPERCOMPUTING PROJECT FOR THE NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. SilverStorm's 9000 Series Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors to Provide 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR Cluster Computing Interconnect Backbone SilverStorm Technologies, the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, announced today that Linux Networx has ordered two 9240 Multi-Protocol Fabric Director systems to support its supercomputing project for the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS NCCS National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship NCCS National Center for Charitable Statistics NCCS National Children's Cancer Society NCCS North Canton City Schools (Ohio) NCCS National Catholic Committee on Scouting ) at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The new supercomputing project is designed to dramatically increase throughput for applications ranging from studying weather and climate variability to simulating astrophysical phenomena. The system will supplement the NCCS architecture with improved price/performance and is designed to scale to as many as 40 trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS See teraFLOPS. ) in its full configuration. "SilverStorm is pleased to work with our partner Linux Networx in support of their advanced supercomputing project for NASA Goddard," said Russ Hawkins, SilverStorm 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. . "By utilizing SilverStorm's new 20Gb/s DDR based 9240 configuration, NASA can be assured that they are deploying a solution that includes the industry's highest performing interconnect product available today." The SilverStorm 9240 systems will provide 20Gb/s of DDR end-to-end interconnect for the 128-node, 3.3 TFLOPS Linux Networx Supersystem. The Supersystem is based on Intel dual-core Dempsey processors and includes a high-performance storage subsystem with 60 Tb/s of raw Data Direct Networks storage running the IBM General Parallel File System General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a high-performance shared-disk clustered file system developed by IBM. GPFS distinguishes itself from other cluster file systems by providing concurrent high-speed file access to applications executing on multiple nodes of an AIX 5L cluster, a (GPFS GPFS General Parallel File System GPFS General Purpose Financial Statements GPFS General Purpose Flight Simulator GPFS Gallery Parallel File System ). The system is designed to scale to as many as 40TFLOPS in its full configuration. SilverStorm's 9240 Multi-Protocol Fabric Director is part of the highly integrated 9000 series family of high performance interconnect solutions. With a total switching capacity exceeding 11.5Tb/s in a single chassis, the 9000 series is currently the world's highest throughput interconnect system. SilverStorm 9000 series chassis configurations come in 24, 12, 8, and single module versions ranging in size from 14U to 1U. The multi-module chassis units can be populated with any combination of InfiniBand SDR See software defined radio. (10Gb/s) switch modules, DDR (20Gb/s) switch modules, or Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) modules. VIC modules enable hosts on InfiniBand fabrics to transparently access either Fibre Channel or Ethernet networks or both. Up to 288 InfiniBand 20Gb/s switch ports, up to 48 10Gb/s Ethernet virtual controller ports and up to 192 Fibre Channel virtual controller ports can be supported in a single chassis. SilverStorm's QuickSilver High Performance Fabric Access and FastFabric software suite rounds out the solution by providing comprehensive configuration, performance management, diagnostics and control for the overall interconnect fabric. About SilverStorm Technologies 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. Some of SilverStorm's 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 of the world's Top500 supercomputers utilize SilverStorm products. For more information, visit www.silverstorm.com or contact info@silverstorm.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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