Voltaire Grid Director to Support IBM iDataPlex system |
| 2008-06-27 |
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Voltaire has announced that its Grid Director 20 Gigabits/second (Gbps) switching products have been added to the IBM Cluster1350 solution portfolio, which includes support of iDataPlex.
IBM iDataPlex is new category of server that dramatically increases compute density while significantly decreasing energy consumption and associated data canter costs for Internet-scale computing.
iDataPlex helps relieve massive, sprawled out data centres that are pushing the limits of power and space available to them. Designed to dramatically increase compute density while significantly decreasing energy consumption and associated data centre costs, iDataPlex uses 40 percent less power and increases by five times the amount of computing done in the same space. iDataPlex also uses all industry-standard components as well as open source software such as Linux to lower costs.
Voltaire Grid Director switches provide high-performance InfiniBand connectivity and microsecond latencies to enable high-performance applications to run on distributed server, network and storage resources. Some applications gain up to a 300% performance improvement using Voltaire switches as the cluster interconnect instead of Ethernet. Moreover, the switches’ power-efficient design offers lower power and cooling requirements as compared to 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings.
Since launching the brand new category of server just over 30 days ago, IBM has already begun to deliver the iDataPlex system to clients globally. Among the first clients to adopt iDataPlex is Microsoft. The High Performance Computing product unit within Microsoft’s Windows Server Group is leveraging IBM iDataPlex systems for internal benchmarking of their cluster computing operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008.
Voltaire Grid Director 20 Gbps InfiniBand switches range in size from 24 ports for smaller clusters to 288 ports for large scale-out environments. The switches are currently available through IBM and other Voltaire partners. IBM also offers Voltaire Grid Director 10 Gbps switches, routers and software as part of the Cluster1350 solution portfolio, and 20 Gbps products as part of the IBM BladeCenter product portfolio.
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