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Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced that it is opening up its software sources to the InfiniBand community. The bold, industry-first move signals Voltaire's leadership in driving the adoption of standards-based InfiniBand solutions in the high performance computing market. Opening up sources has already led to contributions from users at universities and major HPC centers creating more robust and mature InfiniBand software. Voltaire's initiative extends the promise of open source Linux to InfiniBand deployments. "InfiniBand is quickly taking over a segment in supercomputing that historically has been served by proprietary technologies," said Matt Leininger, principle member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a customer of Voltaire. "Sandia strongly supports the ongoing development of open source software to address our high performance computing needs. By opening up InfiniBand software to the open source community, the industry can expect to see more innovations and enhancements to meet the specific needs of HPC users." "It is undeniable that one of the top trends in supercomputing is the implementation of open, standards-based solutions," said Ronnie Kenneth, CEO and chairman, Voltaire. "By sharing sources, Voltaire is taking the next step to ensure that InfiniBand continues to offer customers a powerful combination of industry-standard technology and industry-leading performance." Voltaire Open Source InfiniBand Software Powers Intel Architecture-Based Cluster At SuperComputing 2003, Voltaire will showcase the robust management capabilities of its open source InfiniBand subnet management software in the TeraFlops-Off-the-Shelf (TOTS) demonstration with Intel and other systems vendors. The TOTS demonstration features a 192-node Xeon processor-based cluster powered by Voltaire's ISR 9600 InfiniBand switch router embedded with the VoltaireVision™ management software managing the entire cluster. Voltaire has contributed the sources of this subnet manager to the InfiniBand Open Source initiative. "InfiniBand architecture has emerged as the leading HPC interconnect," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel's Enterprise Platform Group. "The ability to reach TeraFlops performance levels with a 192 node InfiniBand cluster underscores the power of Intel architecture for HPC solutions. The open source InfiniBand software stack was critical for the delivery of the configuration."