Voltaire Ships InfiniBand-Based Solution for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.BILLERICA, Mass. -- Voltaire's Broad Network of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Partners and Resellers to Offer Solution; HLRS HLRS Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (German: High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart; University of Stuttgart) Stuttgart; Germany) HLRS Homosexual Law Reform Society (London, England - 1958 to 1970) Deploys Solution for Automotive Industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. Research & Development Projects Voltaire, the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions, today announced the immediate availability of a complete InfiniBand-based switching solution and software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. to support Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Compute Cluster Server See Microsoft Cluster Server. 2003. The Voltaire solution enhances the performance and scalability of Windows-based clusters and provides a dramatic increase in application performance. The solution is ideal for commercial 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. ) applications employed by industries including automotive, aerospace, scientific engineering, geo sciences and financial services. "Microsoft is pleased to be working with Voltaire to bring Windows-based High-Performance Computing clusters to our customers," said John Borozan, group product manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "Organizations in a wide array of industries that rely on High-Performance Computing for product design, modeling and visualization can now achieve optimal results using Voltaire InfiniBand in a Microsoft Windows environment." Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is Microsoft's official entry into the world of HPC, and is an integrated, standards-based compute clustering platform built on top of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions. Voltaire offers multi-service switches with integrated InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity that are deployed in many of the world's largest supercomputers and grids. Voltaire's solution for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 includes the OpenFabrics stack for Microsoft Windows. "We are extremely pleased to be able to offer customers Voltaire's InfiniBand hardware and HPC solutions on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003," said Patrick Guay, senior vice president, marketing, Voltaire. "Customers in industries ranging from education and research to financial services and manufacturing can now get simplified deployment, operation and integration with existing systems through Windows-based HPC clusters." Voltaire solutions supporting Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 are now available through Voltaire's original equipment manufacturer (OEM), integrator and reseller channels. The solution will be offered as part of HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio, a comprehensive, modular package of tested and pre-configured hardware, software and services that integrates scalable computation, data management and visualization in a single-clustered environment, greatly enhancing productivity in HPC environments. "Voltaire's InfiniBand switching and software solutions are an important part of HP's cluster offering because they provide exceptional performance, scalability and manageability for distributed computing environments," said Ed Turkel, HPC Product Marketing Manager, HP. "We are pleased to provide these benefits to our many customers with Windows-based compute environments." Hochstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS), one of Microsoft's Institutes for High-Performance Computing in Stuttgart, Germany, is currently using the Voltaire Grid Backbone switching platform with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 on a cluster of Dual Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology) The first name of Intel's 64-bit x86 CPUs. In 2006, the name of the technology was changed to "Intel 64." See Intel 64. central processing unit See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers (CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. ) 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. servers running LS-DYNA. HLRS uses the cluster to provide computer aided engineering (application) Computer Aided Engineering - (CAE) Use of computers to help with all phases of engineering design work. Like computer aided design, but also involving the conceptual and analytical design steps. services to the research and development organizations of several leading automotive manufacturers. "The combination of Voltaire's InfiniBand-based switching solutions and Windows Compute Cluster 2003 enables High-Performance Computing in a simplified, manageable environment," said Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael M. Resch, HLRS. "We see great value in the embedded management capabilities both in Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Voltaire Grid Backbone solutions." 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 Internet Protocol (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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