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Company to Showcase Multi-Chassis, Multi-Path Wirespeed 10 GE Fabric, New Ultra-Low Latency Switch and Management Products at Booth 2321: Woven Systems, the leading innovator of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Fabric switching solutions, will showcase its entire product family of core, edge and top-of-rack switches as well as a new fabric management system at the SC08 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, from November 15 – 21, 2008. Speakers Woven Systems Vice President of Engineering Bert Tanaka will present on “How the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Built the World's Fastest Ethernet Compute Cluster using the Woven Systems Ethernet Fabric Solution” at the Exhibitor Forum Session, Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. in Room 12A/12B. Woven Systems Senior Product Manager, Masum Mir, will present “Accelerating High Performance Parallel Storage with Ethernet Fabrics” in Panasas’ booth #1721 on Thursday, November 20 at 10:30 a.m. The company will also be supplying its flagship EFX 1000 switch to handle all low-latency 10 GE connections for SCinet, a highly sophisticated and extreme networking infrastructure that can support the revolutionary applications and network experiments that have become the trademark of the SC Conference. Designed and built entirely by volunteers from universities, government and industry, SCinet connects multiple 10 gigabit per second circuits to the exhibit floor, which links the convention center to research and commercial networks around the world. Woven’s Booth Demo Woven will feature its end-to-end 10 GE fabric switching solutions that include two of its EFX 1000 core switches connected to three of its new EFX 500 edge switches. These will be connected to the TRX 200 and TRX 100 top-of-rack switches supporting server traffic in a virtual data center environment. The entire fabric is managed by the new Woven Fabric Manager. This provides a single, centralized fabric-wide view to demonstrate how easy it is to support multi-path multi-chassis data centers. This dynamic system will enable IT managers to see real-time traffic traversing the fabric, including links handling differing traffic loads, traffic types, and Woven’s Dynamic Congestion Avoidance breakthrough that supports cut-through, non-blocking 10 GE performance. The management demonstration will also enable data center managers to examine utilization levels by drilling down from a fabric view to individual nodes, line cards and ports. WovenScope will also be showcased, providing data center managers with views into real-time latency and jitter across all paths in the fabric. This is a crucial proof point used to demonstrate that latency is being equally distributed across Woven’s multipath fabric. The ATLAS Compute Cluster Tanaka will discuss why the ATLAS compute cluster at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany is the fastest of all 285 Gigabit Ethernet clusters in the most recent TOP500 list of supercomputer sites. The Institute was able to achieve the top-ranking performance of 32.8 Teraflops based on the unprecedented 64 percent switching efficiency of Woven Systems' Dynamic Congestion Avoidance technology, which constantly balances traffic loads in real-time along available paths in a non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric.