SilverStorm Technologies, the leader in high performance
interconnect solutions for clustered computing, announced today that
it has shipped over 10,000 ports of 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR in its award
winning portfolio of interconnect products since reaching general
availability in June of this year. DDR shipments have been made to
over 25 different customers including Chevron, NASA, Sandia National
Laboratories, and the US Department of Defense in support of a variety
of supercomputing applications, including the setting of a new world
record visualization rendering rate of 1.5 billion polygons per second
by a Linux Networx system currently being delivered to the Army
Research Laboratory (ARL).
"We continue to see outstanding demand from our customers for
DDR," said Reini Florin, SilverStorm's VP of marketing. "With industry
leading bandwidth, low latencies, and price performance, it is no
surprise that InfiniBand DDR has rapidly become the technology of
choice for high performance applications."
Supporting bandwidths of 20Gb/s host-to-host and 60Gb/s
switch-to-switch, SilverStorm's DDR products enable the construction
of ever larger, higher performing supercomputing clusters. Commercial
customers, universities, and government institutions can significantly
improve application accuracy, reduce time to results, and bring
products to market more quickly.
SilverStorm's DDR products provide much greater performance than
today's 10Gb/s Ethernet switches and proprietary interconnects such as
Myrinet at a fraction of the cost for similarly scaled fabrics.
SilverStorm's portfolio of Edge Switch and Multi-protocol Fabric
Director products is unmatched in the industry. Chassis configurations
come in 24, 12, 8, 4 and single module versions ranging in size from
14U to 1U. The multi-module chassis units can be populated with any
combination of InfiniBand SDR (10Gb/s) switch modules, DDR (20Gb/s)
switch modules, or Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) modules. VIC modules
enable hosts on InfiniBand fabrics to transparently access Fibre
Channel or Ethernet networks or both. Up to 288 InfiniBand 20Gb/s
switch ports, up to 48 10Gb/s Ethernet virtual controller ports, and
up to 192 Fibre Channel virtual controller ports can be supported in a
single chassis. SilverStorm's QuickSilver High Performance Fabric
Access and FastFabric software suite rounds out the solution by
providing comprehensive configuration, performance management,
diagnostics, and control for the overall interconnect fabric.
About SilverStorm Technologies
SilverStorm designs, manufactures and services a family of
networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve
cluster performance and scalability. SilverStorm solutions power some
of the world's largest supercomputers in diverse fields including Oil
and Gas exploration, Automotive and Aerospace design, Financial
Services, Bio Medical and University/Government Research.
SilverStorm's customers include AMD, Canon, Chevron, Intel, Lockheed
Martin, NASA, Riken Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories,
Sun Microsystems, Toyota, the US Department of Defense, and Virginia
Tech University. Several of the world's TOP500 supercomputers utilize
SilverStorm products. SilverStorm is also a member of Blade.org, a
collaborative organization and developer community focused on
accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel
blade ecosystem. For more information, visit www.silverstorm.com or
contact info@silverstorm.com.
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