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Voltaire Powers China's Top High-Performance Computers
Majority of InfiniBand Deployments in China Rely on Voltaire
Voltaire announced that its InfiniBand switches are powering 24 of China’s TOP100 High Performance Computers, including the top three — at the Tianjin Supercomputing Center, the Shanghai Supercomputer Center and the Computer Network Information Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The switches are being used in 65 percent of the total InfiniBand deployments noted on the list, more than any other InfiniBand systems vendor.
“Our main mission is to drive scientific innovation and advancement in industry by applying leading-edge supercomputing technologies,” said Yuqi Wei, manager, technical support department, Shanghai Supercomputer Center. “The Voltaire InfiniBand switches are integral for enabling the high performance, efficiency and stability of our 30,000-plus cores supercomputer.”
“This report confirms our strong position in China, an important market for future growth,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “Our expertise and innovation have made us the clear choice for InfiniBand switch deployments. Major research organizations, as well as commercial enterprises, rely on Voltaire’s InfiniBand technology to meet their high-performance requirements while increasing efficiency and consolidating their infrastructures.”
“Another interesting data point from the China TOP100, is that Voltaire switches are used as the interconnect fabric for 88.5% of the processing power (in teraFLOPS) of all the InfiniBand sites on list,” Somekh added.
Voltaire’s 20 and 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switches provide the high-performance interconnect for the world’s largest computing systems and scale-out data centers. The switches accelerate mission-critical applications, and enable faster data sharing among storage and server networks.
In November 2009, Voltaire also announced that according to the 34th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, its switches power more than 50 percent of the InfiniBand deployments — more than double the share of any other InfiniBand systems vendor.
Published annually by the Specialty Association of Mathematical & Scientific Software (SAMSS), the China TOP100 List tracks high-performance computing usage.