Sandia National Labs Pick Voltaire, Again Voltair InfiniBad Solutions to Power High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster at Department of Energy Laboratory
NEW YORK, New York (LinuxWorld Expo) and BEDFORD, Mass. - January 20, 2004
Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions to support a 128 node InfiniBand cluster testbed at its Livermore, California, laboratory. This is the second Voltaire InfiniBand cluster deployment at Sandia and represents the continued collaboration between the two organizations on large-scale InfiniBand projects.
Linux Networx, a provider of complete cluster solutions, delivered the Evolocity II high performance computing cluster to Sandia consisting of 256 Intel® Xeon processors and uses Clusterworx® and ICE Box™ cluster management tools from Linux Networx. Voltaire will deliver InfiniBand hardware and software. Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions, featuring advanced I/O and fabric management capabilities enable supercomputing sites like Sandia to significantly improve the performance and efficiency of server clusters for HPC applications.
"InfiniBand continues to prove itself as a breakthrough high speed interconnect technology through the scalability and performance improvements it brings to our high performance clusters," said Matt Leininger, principle member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. "As Sandia evaluates next generation InfiniBand hardware based on PCI-Express, we expect to achieve even greater cluster network performance and cost benefits."
"Sandia is world renown for its leadership in building some of the world's fastest computers for its national research and development initiatives," said Peter Waxman, vice president of sales, Voltaire. "Sandia's decision to continue to work with Voltaire to implement InfiniBand-powered HPC clusters further validates the maturity, performance and scalability of our solutions. Moreover, we look forward to building upon our relationship with Linux Networx, as they continually demonstrate their deep expertise in the development and delivery of high performance cluster computing systems to customers."
Voltaire offers a complete family of InfiniBand solutions for HPC applications that balance high-performance hardware with a production-ready, standards-based software stack for HPC clusters and enterprise data centers. The result is unmatched performance within InfiniBand clusters and seamless connectivity with the existing infrastructure.
For more information about Voltaire's HPC solutions, visit: http://www.voltaire.com.
For more information about Linux Networx, visit: http://www.linuxnetworx.com.
About Sandia National Labs
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major research and development responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. Sandia National Labs is part of the ASCI program to produce and utilize the world's fastest computers for a variety of uses. Sandia is a member of the IBTA. For more information, visit www.sandia.gov
About Voltaire
Voltaire is a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions for enterprise data centers and HPC environments. Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage. For HPC customers, Voltaire leads the industry with the largest InfiniBand Trade Association-certified switch to support clusters scaling from hundreds to thousands of nodes. With business headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts, Voltaire is certified by the IBTA's Integrator's List. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.
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