QLogic, the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today announced that its InfiniPath InfiniBand Adapter for PCI Express has been named a finalist in the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards in the Best Clustering Solution category. InfiniPath was selected by a panel of judges comprised of business leaders and journalists from the open source industry. Winners will be announced this week at the LinuxWorld exhibition in Boston. "Being recognized by the judges at LinuxWorld is testament to the quality and leadership performance of the InfiniPath InfiniBand interconnect," said Scott Metcalf, general manager, QLogic Server Interconnect Group. "Both OEM and end-user customer adoption of InfiniPath continues to grow. The recent announcement of the InfiniPath InfiniBand adapters for PCI-Express significantly expands the market for InfiniPath." The QLogic InfiniPath InfiniBand PCI Express adapter, acquired via the recent acquisition of PathScale, Inc., is designed to maximize application scaling and performance on Intel and AMD-based Linux clusters and high-end storage systems. The InfiniPath HyperMessaging Architecture delivers ten times more messages per second than any other interconnect. InfiniPath improves data throughput on PCI Express-based systems and eliminates bottlenecks that can slow down applications. In fact, only InfiniPath can scale applications deployed on commodity servers to supercomputer performance levels. As a result, InfiniPath enables scientists, researchers and engineers to tackle a wider range of applications faster and more efficiently. For more information about the QLogic InfiniPath Adapter, visit its Web site.