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Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced that the company has signed an agreement with Professor Matsuoka's GRID computing laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for continued cooperation in the evaluation and deployment of Voltaire's advanced InfiniBand technology and products. Since April 2003, a network of users has been successfully running standard applications and benchmark tests on the 12-node cluster, which is connected by Voltaire's ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router. Tokyo Institute of Technology operates Japan's largest campus-based GRID cluster. "Since April, our laboratory has been evaluating Voltaire's twelve port InfiniBand switch router and running suites of benchmark tests comparing different types of networking technologies using high-end nodes. Voltaire's InfiniBand products always come out on the winning edge. Our initial results indicate that InfiniBand is the superior technology in application performance, frequently by a factor of two," said Professor Matsuoka, Matsuoka Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. "We have previous experience deploying a number of large-scale, as well as small-scale clusters using other networking technologies, now totaling approximately 1700 processors throughout the campus. Although our current InfiniBand test cluster is small, we are investigating the possible future deployment of InfiniBand on very large clusters in our infrastructure." "The management features of Voltaire's InfiniBand software are particularly attractive in terms of manageability, network performance, and robustness. These are exactly the kinds of management features that experienced cluster managers will appreciate," continued Matsuoka. "We will continue to cooperate with Voltaire to verify and extend our findings." "Voltaire is honored to participate in recent InfiniBand benchmark testing performed by Professor Matsuoka and is delighted that the prestigious Matsuoka Laboratory of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has again demonstrated its pioneering of new GRID technologies," said Ronnie Kenneth, chairman and CEO, Voltaire, Inc. Dr. Daniel Isenberg, CEO of Triangle Technologies, who is responsible for developing Voltaire's business in Japan, commented, "Japanese researchers and computer manufacturers are among the pioneers in supercomputing and GRID computing technologies. In these communities, we are seeing a growing interest in InfiniBand-powered clusters, and increasing receptivity to Voltaire's complete family of InfiniBand solutions."