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Companies Showcase HPC Solutions at SuperComputing 2004 - InfiniCon Systems, the leader in end-to-end networking for high performance business computing, and Small Tree Communications, the leading provider of high performance networking products for Mac, today announced an exclusive partnership to deliver the industry's first complete suite of InfiniBand products to the Apple market. With the only complete InfiniBand product offering for the growing Apple HPC market, the InfiniCon and Small Tree solution suite includes a full line of managed switches, Fibre Channel and Ethernet gateways, a complete set of high performance host upper layer protocols (ULPs) and fabric management solutions - all optimized for the Mac OS X platform. Apple users can immediately benefit from enterprise-ready InfiniBand solutions, with additional performance and management features to be introduced in the near future. "For architects of HPC and supercomputer installations, as well as for data center managers, there is no longer a trade-off to be made between the complete InfiniBand feature set available for Linux and the superior performance and environmentals of the Apple Xserve G5 platform," says Corky Seeber, President, Small Tree Communications. "Now, with InfiniCon and Small Tree, Apple users in the HPC space can have it all." InfiniBand Power Gains Traction Across Platforms Through the addition of Mac OS X support, InfiniCon Systems is the only InfiniBand vendor with proven, production-ready offerings to meet the demands of high performance Linux, Mac OS, and Windows environments. InfiniCon solutions are in use by key global Fortune 500 companies including Toyota, Boeing, and ChevronTexaco, and power some of the world's largest clusters - including the world's largest Linux cluster at RIKEN. Small Tree's existing InfiniBand host infrastructure is the foundation for key Apple HPC cluster installations, and they have partnered with Ohio State University to deliver an MPI solution performance-optimized for Mac OS X. This offering is deployed today at large installations including the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech - one of the world's most powerful supercomputers based on Apple Xserve G5. The Choice for High Performance Business Computing The extremely high performance and low latency characteristics of InfiniBand make it the solution of choice for high performance business computing - from business-critical modeling and simulation applications to database clustering in the enterprise data center, where InfiniCon's database clustering solutions were recently demonstrated to produce world-record TPC-H benchmark performance - accelerating Oracle 10g performance for an OLTP application by as much as 370 percent over Gigabit Ethernet. "Our networking solutions take high performance clustering to new levels," says InfiniCon CEO Russ Hawkins. "By offering complete InfiniBand-based solutions for all major computing platforms, we're committed to meeting the needs of all customers." In addition to being the backbone for some of the world's largest HPC fabrics, InfiniCon's high-performance interconnect solutions include integrated Fibre Channel and Ethernet gateways that enable pools of servers to consolidate access to LAN and storage systems onto a single network, eliminating redundant LAN and SAN host adapters and switches. Solutions Demonstrated at SuperComputing 2004 InfiniCon's powerful solutions will be demonstrated during SuperComputing 2004, November 8-11 in Pittsburgh, PA. Visit us at booth #1929. Look for additional InfiniCon products in use throughout the exhibit floor. Small Tree will be displaying InfiniCon's high-performance InfiniBand networking solutions for Mac OS X in Apple's booth, # 521.