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| Voltaire's Double Data Rate InfiniBand Solutions for HP BladeSystem Voltaire has announced that its Double Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand solutions will provide the high performance switching and storage connectivity and management for the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture. Collaborating with HP as a BladeSystem Solution Builder program member, Voltaire DDR InfiniBand switches and software deliver double the performance of existing 10 Gigabits/second interconnect offerings and provide industry-leading performance and scalability to the HP BladeSystem architecture. The HP BladeSystem c-Class offers servers, storage, networking, as well as virtualization, power and cooling, and management capabilities in one consolidated design. Voltaire GridStack InfiniBand software stack, which features a comprehensive suite of upper layer protocols that are suited for high performance computing clusters, utility computing, grids and enterprise data center applications, provides the underlying InfiniBand support in the HP BladeSystem solution. GridStack is bundled with HP XC System Software and is supported by HP MPI, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share, and HP Scalable Visualization Array. For InfiniBand fabric management of small BladeSystem cluster environments consisting of one or two chassis, a server-based version of Voltaire GridVision InfiniBand Fabric Management Software will be available. This provides customers with the same functionality and user interface available with Voltaire multi-service Grid Director switches, and GridVision management software. Voltaire multi-service switches offer integrated InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity in a single enclosure and are the industry's only solutions that allow true switching between InfiniBand, Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. Voltaire DDR InfiniBand solutions leverage the same design and interchangeable components as Voltaire Grid Director switches. Customers will value the improved performance, lower latency and the ability to use fewer switch chassis, switching chips and cables, thereby minimizing complexity and costs for clusters and grids using HP BladeSystem. Voltaire DDR solutions can also be inter-mixed with Voltaire single data rate (SDR) solutions in the same fabric. InfiniBand products for HP BladeSystem c-Class will be available in the fall of 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |