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Voltaire, the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing, today announced support for double data rate (DDR) InfiniBand technology that delivers up to 60 Gbps bandwidth without compromising the low latency and CPU utilization InfiniBand has become known for. DDR InfiniBand-based solutions offer twice the bandwidth of current InfiniBand solutions delivering performance superior to any other interconnect - proprietary or standards-based - available on the market today. Customers will value the improved performance for both switch-to-switch applications as well as connectivity to computing resources. DDR delivers twice the performance with the same number of cables, thereby minimizing complexity and costs. Voltaire's family of grid interconnect solutions consists of DDR-ready switch hardware and software based on InfiniBand technology. The solutions enable high performance applications to run on distributed server, storage and network resources creating a virtual compute environment. Voltaire multi-service switches offer integrated InfiniBand, GbE and Fibre Channel connectivity for legacy connectivity requirements. Voltaire expects to ship DDR capabilities in its ISR 9096 and ISR 9288 modular switches in early Q4 2005. "Voltaire's multi-service switches are uniquely positioned to support DDR and further solidify our leadership position as the 'interconnect of choice' for high performance grid computing," said Patrick Guay, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "DDR InfiniBand solutions enable customers to more effectively scale out clusters and grids to deliver the performance needed to support the most compute- and I/O-intensive applications. In addition to providing world-class bandwidth and latency performance, DDR InfiniBand solutions also deliver greatly improved I/O throughput for increasingly dense compute and storage platforms." DDR InfiniBand solutions are backward-compatible and fully interoperate with existing 10 Gbps InfiniBand fabrics protecting customers' existing investments in InfiniBand-based clusters and grids. "The prospect of combining high port count switches with DDR InfiniBand is a necessity for organizations building large clusters and grids," said Stephen Poole, Advanced Architectures Team, Los Alamos National Laboratories. "The arrival of DDR solutions marks a new standard of performance and manageability for building and scaling out large clusters of thousands of nodes."