INTERCONNECTS

Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Voltaire’s InfiniBand solutions to support a 128 node InfiniBand cluster testbed at its Livermore, California, laboratory. This is the second Voltaire InfiniBand cluster deployment at Sandia and represents the continued collaboration between the two organizations on large-scale InfiniBand projects. Linux Networx, a provider of complete cluster solutions, delivered the Evolocity II high performance computing cluster to Sandia consisting of 256 Intel® Xeon processors and uses Clusterworx® and ICE Box™ cluster management tools from Linux Networx. Voltaire will deliver InfiniBand hardware and software. Voltaire’s InfiniBand solutions, featuring advanced I/O and fabric management capabilities enable supercomputing sites like Sandia to significantly improve the performance and efficiency of server clusters for HPC applications. “InfiniBand continues to prove itself as a breakthrough high speed interconnect technology through the scalability and performance improvements it brings to our high performance clusters,” said Matt Leininger, principle member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. “As Sandia evaluates next generation InfiniBand hardware based on PCI-Express, we expect to achieve even greater cluster network performance and cost benefits.” “Sandia is world renown for its leadership in building some of the world’s fastest computers for its national research and development initiatives,” said Peter Waxman, vice president of sales, Voltaire. “Sandia’s decision to continue to work with Voltaire to implement InfiniBand-powered HPC clusters further validates the maturity, performance and scalability of our solutions. Moreover, we look forward to building upon our relationship with Linux Networx, as they continually demonstrate their deep expertise in the development and delivery of high performance cluster computing systems to customers.”