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QLogic Announces Addition of ESI Group to HPCtrack Program
ESI Group and QLogic HPC Ecosystem to Provide Faster 'Times-to-Solution' for Customers: QLogic today announced that ESI Group, a world leader in software for the numerical simulation of prototype and manufacturing process engineering, has joined the QLogic HPCtrack program. The addition of ESI Group to the HPCtrack program will help to expand the growing QLogic HPC ecosystem which now includes more than 50 members. The QLogic HPCtrack program provides its alliance partners with access to the resources they need to create, test and certify their solutions' interoperability with QLogic storage and high performance clustering technologies. The program is designed to provide the building blocks for partner companies to certify and optimize storage area network (SAN) and HPC solutions. 
"The extremely low latency and high bandwidth of QLogic InfiniBand solutions make it possible for ESI Group customers to provide faster 'times-to-solution' with more complex models," said Raymond Ni, ESI Group Computational Structure Mechanics Development Director. "The high performance networking infrastructure of the QLogic HPC ecosystem will allow users to include significantly more details in their models, minimize assumptions and reduce turnaround time." "The addition of ESI Group greatly expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing," said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. "ESI Group's software suite expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing by providing an entire application suite that realistically simulates a product's behavior during certification testing. This helps companies to fine tune their manufacturing processes, and allows them to evaluate the operational or accidental environment's impact on product usage." QLogic High Performance Computing Solutions -- Second to None QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio of HPC solutions which includes multi-protocol fabric directors, edge fabric switches, host channel adapters (HCAs), and a complete software suite to install, operate, and maintain high performance interconnect fabrics. Delivering the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth, QLogic InfiniBand HCAs enable MPI and TCP applications to scale to thousands of nodes with unprecedented price-performance. The most comprehensive and flexible interconnect fabric solutions on the market, QLogic InfiniBand switches incorporate the industry's only fabric management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes, helping to satisfy the growing demand for high performance computational clusters and grids. HPCtrack Program Enhances Ecosystem Collaboration on Interoperability and Performance The HPCtrack program is designed to provide faster access to new InfiniBand technology, to certify the interoperability of ecosystem products and to provide a basis for closer collaboration on performance optimization of multi-vendor solutions. In addition to ESI Group, other HPCtrack members include 3 Leaf Systems, Altair, AutoDesk, CD-adapco, Clustercorp, Corning Cabling Systems, Data Direct Networks, FalconStor, Isilon Systems, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, LSI, Network Equipment Technologies, Panasas, Quantum, RAID Incorporated, RNA Networks, SCALI, SI-Cortex, SIMULIA, Terascala, Texas Memory Systems and Zarlink. Partners interested in more details about the HPCtrack program should contact Joe Yaworski at joseph.yaworski@qlogic.com.
"The extremely low latency and high bandwidth of QLogic InfiniBand solutions make it possible for ESI Group customers to provide faster 'times-to-solution' with more complex models," said Raymond Ni, ESI Group Computational Structure Mechanics Development Director. "The high performance networking infrastructure of the QLogic HPC ecosystem will allow users to include significantly more details in their models, minimize assumptions and reduce turnaround time." "The addition of ESI Group greatly expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing," said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. "ESI Group's software suite expands the QLogic HPC ecosystem for manufacturing by providing an entire application suite that realistically simulates a product's behavior during certification testing. This helps companies to fine tune their manufacturing processes, and allows them to evaluate the operational or accidental environment's impact on product usage." QLogic High Performance Computing Solutions -- Second to None QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio of HPC solutions which includes multi-protocol fabric directors, edge fabric switches, host channel adapters (HCAs), and a complete software suite to install, operate, and maintain high performance interconnect fabrics. Delivering the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth, QLogic InfiniBand HCAs enable MPI and TCP applications to scale to thousands of nodes with unprecedented price-performance. The most comprehensive and flexible interconnect fabric solutions on the market, QLogic InfiniBand switches incorporate the industry's only fabric management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes, helping to satisfy the growing demand for high performance computational clusters and grids. HPCtrack Program Enhances Ecosystem Collaboration on Interoperability and Performance The HPCtrack program is designed to provide faster access to new InfiniBand technology, to certify the interoperability of ecosystem products and to provide a basis for closer collaboration on performance optimization of multi-vendor solutions. In addition to ESI Group, other HPCtrack members include 3 Leaf Systems, Altair, AutoDesk, CD-adapco, Clustercorp, Corning Cabling Systems, Data Direct Networks, FalconStor, Isilon Systems, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, LSI, Network Equipment Technologies, Panasas, Quantum, RAID Incorporated, RNA Networks, SCALI, SI-Cortex, SIMULIA, Terascala, Texas Memory Systems and Zarlink. Partners interested in more details about the HPCtrack program should contact Joe Yaworski at joseph.yaworski@qlogic.com.