Voltaire Delivers Peak Performance for High Performance Clusters and Grids with Scalable Fabric Management Software.New Commercial-Grade, Server-Based Software Eases Deployment and Management of Large InfiniBand Fabrics 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 BILLERICA, Mass. -- Voltaire, the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions, today announced new highly scalable fabric management software that delivers peak performance for high performance clusters and grids. GridVision[TM] Enhanced is a server-based version of Voltaire's field-proven InfiniBand fabric management software that delivers high performance and speeds deployment of large InfiniBand fabrics consisting of hundreds or thousands of servers. Using GridVision Enhanced, users can bring up a multi-thousand node cluster in less than one minute. "Robust and scalable fabric management software is a critical element for grids and supercomputers - such as those in the Top500 -- that are scaling to hundreds and thousands of servers. With petaflop-scale computing in sight, it is important to be able to scale both hardware and software performance," said Patrick Guay, senior vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "GridVision Enhanced offers all of the mission critical tools required for an InfiniBand cluster in a commercial-grade, host-based solution that enables the utmost scalability and performance for large fabrics." GridVision Enhanced incorporates a highly scalable 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. manager, which is a required component for InfiniBand fabrics that manages operational tasks such as routing, addressing and fabric initialization in·i·tial·ize tr.v. in·i·tial·ized, in·i·tial·iz·ing, in·i·tial·iz·es Computer Science 1. To set (a starting value of a variable). 2. To prepare (a computer or a printer) for use; boot. 3. . In addition to subnet management, the software enables better fabric utilization and performance through advanced routing, central provisioning and configuration, and hierarchical root cause and analysis tools. For larger clusters and grids, as the environment scales, reliability, scalability and performance become increasingly important. Using powerful server platforms to host the software, GridVision Enhanced provides faster configuration and response time for very large fabrics, simplified integration with standard Linux software tools and new routing algorithms. Scalability and Performance for Top500-Class Clusters GridVision Enhanced encompasses all of the performance and scalability features required by Top500-class clustered supercomputers. The new host-based software encompasses the plug and play features of Voltaire's switch-based fabric management software which is used in some of the world's largest InfiniBand fabrics including Top500 supercomputers at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学 and the U.S. Department of Defense. By running on a host instead of on the switch, GridVision Enhanced further accelerates the speed of all fabric management related tasks including fabric initialization or "bring up", troubleshooting and accessing critical operational information. GridVision Enhanced easily scales from a few to thousands of nodes in both stand alone and highly available redundant configurations and can bring up a multi-thousand node cluster in less than one minute. As a standalone software package, GridVision Enhanced manages heterogeneous fabrics that may include InfiniBand switches from multiple vendors. It also can access the advanced device management capabilities of Voltaire's InfiniBand-based hardware solutions including all managed switches and Ethernet and Fibre Channel router Overview A channel router is a specific variety of router for integrated circuits. Normally using two layers of interconnect, it must connect the specified pins on the top and bottom of the channel. modules for fast I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. . Complements Service Oriented Infrastructure Service Oriented Infrastructure or SOI ([pronounced "sō-i" or "es-ō-i"]) is a system for describing IT infrastructure as a service. The underlying principles go back to, among others, Mainframe and LDAP technologies, but SOI provides a framework or mindset making Software for Grid Computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal GridVision Enhanced is available as a standalone software package and is also included as part of Voltaire's recently-introduced GridVision Enterprise service oriented infrastructure (SOI (Silicon On Insulator) A chip architecture that increases transistor switching speed by reducing capacitance (build-up of electrical charges in the transistor's elements), and thus reducing the discharge time. The power requirement is also reduced in some designs. ) management software. GridVision Enterprise automatically maps the relationships between application requirements and the physical or virtual data center environment consisting of servers, storage and networks to create a logical and highly efficient data center. Employing an innovative abstracted object model, an intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to and an open web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. API, GridVision Enterprise integrates with leading server and storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. solutions, as well as provisioning and scheduling tools, creating a single, logical data center environment consisting of both physical and virtual resources. The software enables true automation of repetitive IT tasks associated with network, server and storage provisioning to deliver unprecedented efficiency. More information about GridVision Enterprise is available at http://www.voltaire.com/Products/Grid_Vision. GridVision Enhanced will be available in early 2007. 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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