SilverStorm Technologies Selected by Virginia Tech for InfiniBand Upgrade of 1,100 ''System X'' Supercomputer; Deploys Director Class 9000 Series InfiniBand Switch Gateway for Interconnect of 12 Teraflop Cluster Network.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 Technologies, the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, today announced that Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, at Blacksburg; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1872 as an agricultural and mechanical college. (Virginia Tech) has selected SilverStorm's InfiniBand director class switching class switching Physiology A step in the normal maturation of Hb during fetal development that requires switching from embryonal zeta chain, which is structurally similar to the α chain, and occurs on chromosome 16 to mature α chain production; β solutions to upgrade the InfiniBand cluster interconnect of System X, Virginia Tech's 12 teraflop (unit) teraflop - 10^12 flops. Intel beat Hitachi to the record of 1.06 teraflops, on 04 Dec 1996, unofficially in Beverton, Oregon, using 7264 Pentium Pro chips. 1,100 node Apple-based supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very (http://www.tcf.vt.edu/systemX.html#network). "We are leveraging SilverStorm's latest end-to-end clustering solutions to take System X to new levels of performance and availability," said Kevin Shinpaugh, director of research and cluster computing Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a journal for parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. , Virginia Tech. "SilverStorm is clearly committed to providing the best InfiniBand hardware, software and support for the Apple platform." Virginia Tech is a leader in high performance computing in academia, designing and building the world's fastest academic supercomputer, System X. With more than 12.25 teraflops of sustained Linpack performance, System X was listed as the 14th fastest supercomputer in the world on the most recent TOP500 list of supercomputers. SilverStorm Technologies offers the industry's most powerful, most reliable high performance cluster interconnect solution for the Apple marketplace and recently was awarded the prestigious Apple design award for best Mac OS X server solution. SilverStorm is the only InfiniBand technology vendor that supports all three mainstream host platforms: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. "SilverStorm Technologies is pleased to support Virginia Tech in upgrading System X to the latest generation of InfiniBand technology," said Russ Hawkins, 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 SilverStorm Technologies. "By deploying the 9000 series modular platform, Virginia Tech can meet today's network requirement and flexibly upgrade to new interconnect speeds and fabric technologies as Virginia Tech's future requirements evolve." A demonstration of Virginia Tech's new cluster topology based on SilverStorm's networking solution will be on display in booth #470 at Supercomputing 05, in Seattle, Wash. from November 14-17, 2005. 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 Networking hardware typically refers to equipment facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, this includes routers, switches, access points, network interface cards and other related hardware. and software products that dramatically improve cluster performance and scalability. 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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