Force10 Networks today announced that its Reliable Networking product portfolio is integral to more than 30 percent of the top 40 most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the most powerful, according to the most recent Top500.org list. Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of Roadrunner, which ranked number one on the list, utilizes the Force10 TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to anchor the supercomputer within the network. In addition to powering the fastest supercomputer in the U.S., the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio is integral to the leading supercomputers in Europe, Russia and Korea. Based in Germany, Forschungszentrum Juelich, with its Jugene supercomputer, is ranked 6th on the list and has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E1200 with more than 200 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports. Russia’s Moscow State University is home to the country’s leading supercomputer, SKIF-GRID, which utilizes the TeraScale E-Series as well as the S50 and S2410. The Tachyon supercomputer at the KISTI Supercomputing Center, the fastest in Korea, also relies on Force10. Force10 switch/routers are also part of the most powerful IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cray and Dell supercomputers on the list. As the first supercomputer to reach peak performance of one Petaflop, Roadrunner, built on IBM’s BladeCenter, set a new milestone in the industry. Ranked fourth in the world, Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center is the leading Sun supercomputer on the list. At number five, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is Cray’s highest entry on the list. Abe, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is 23 on the list and the most powerful Dell supercomputer. “As supercomputers grow more powerful, it is increasingly important to minimize potential bottlenecks,” said Sachi Sambandan, vice president of engineering at Force10 Networks. “The Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio is designed to deliver reliability without compromising system throughput, a performance characteristic that is essential for supercomputers like Roadrunner that are reaching Petaflop performance levels.” With research environments and national laboratories demanding more computational power, supercomputers will continue to increase in size and performance. Force10 Networks provides the reliability and scalability needed to optimize supercomputer performance and enhance state-of-the-art research and analysis, as well as to power today’s demanding commercial applications that require an “always-on” network.