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SilverStorm Technologies' InfiniBand DDR Shipments Reach 10,000 Port Milestone
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.
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.