Mellanox launch first 40Gbps switch silicon device | | 2008-06-10 | | Storage component manufacturer Mellanox Technologies has launched the InfiniBand InfiniScale IV switch, a 36-port, 40Gbps device designed for the scale-out demands of data centres and high-performance computing centres such as design automation, financial services, grids, health services, media creation, oil and gas, virtualisation, weather analysis and traffic control.
InfiniScale IV integrates management capabilities including congestion control, adaptive routing, multiple subnet support, port monitoring and mirroring and optimising total cluster performance.
Mellanox claim their InfiniScale IV-based switching platforms enable:
six times the switching and data capacity of 24-port 10GigE switch devices
four times the storage I/O throughput critical for backup, snapshot and quickly loading large datasets against 8Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs
ten times lower end-to-end latency performance of mission-critical clustered applications against iWARP and 10GigE switch solutions
three times the server and storage node cluster scalability when building a 3-tier CLOS fabric vs. 24-port 10GigE switch devices
The technology is already available from Mellanox, and is expected to be offered by leading high end manufacturers including Appro, Bull, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Supermicro, TYAN (MiTAC), and Voltaire, later this year.
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