Voltaire Connects Ten Percent of Top500 with InfiniBand.Number of Top500 InfiniBand-based Supercomputers More Than Doubles Since June 2006; InfiniBand Deployments Surpass Myrinet TAMPA, Fla. and BILLERICA, Mass. -- Voltaire, the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions, today announced that the company's InfiniBand-based Grid Backbone[TM] switching solutions are powering ten percent of the world's fastest supercomputers as ranked on the 28th edition of the Top500 list. InfiniBand deployments on the list more than doubled since June 2006 and two-thirds of the InfiniBand clusters leverage Voltaire solutions. Two of the top ten sites on the list, NASA's Columbia supercomputer and the GSIC GSIC Government of Singapore Investment Corporation GSIC Group Successive Interference Cancellation Center at Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学 are customers of Voltaire. Voltaire Grid Backbone solutions deliver industry-leading performance and networking efficiency to enable highly scalable clusters and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. architectures. Voltaire switches and software are used by businesses and research institutions around the globe to build high-performance clusters and grids ranging from hundreds to thousands of nodes. The Top500 list (www.top500.org), published twice a year prior to the Supercomputing Conference held this week in Tampa, Florida “Tampa” redirects here. For other uses, see Tampa (disambiguation). Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County.GR6. , and the International Supercomputer Conference held in June, ranks supercomputers worldwide according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their performance on the LINPACK benchmark. The number of InfiniBand-based supercomputers grew 173 percent from the November 2005 list and 128 percent from the June 2006 list and is largely fueled by new deployments of Voltaire solutions. For the first time, InfiniBand usage surpassed proprietary Myrinet interconnect usage on the Top500. InfiniBand also captured share from lower performing Gigabit Ethernet, which saw an 18 percent decline since the June 2006 list. Voltaire deployments on the Top500 span 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. ) institutions worldwide in the government, academic, financial services and semiconductor sectors. The Voltaire InfiniBand-based clustered supercomputers on the list were delivered through the broadest representation of partners, including: HP, 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) , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , Sun, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Dell, Appro, and LinuxNetworx. "The doubling of InfiniBand deployments on the Top500 list is indicative of the rapidly growing use of InfiniBand in HPC and across the enterprise," said Patrick Guay, senior vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "We are extremely pleased to grow our leadership as the leading provider of InfiniBand solutions and look forward to working with our customers to begin the move to petaflop-class clusters." About Voltaire Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. Voltaire's integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the high-performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. Voltaire solutions are available from major systems vendors and integrators. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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