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SGI Pairs Up with Voltaire

SGI Pairs Up with Voltaire
By Maureen O'Gara
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January 23, 2004 12:00 AM EST
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SGI has teamed up with Voltaire and will use its widgetry for Infiniband clustering of its new mid-range Itanium-based Altix 350 Linux system built specifically for technical computing where Infiniband is landing some wins.

SGI said its Professional Services arm will offer customers Voltaire's Infiniband switch routers, adapters, Infiniband-to-IP and Infiniband-to-Fibre Channel routers, 64-bit software stack and fabric management software.

The pair is supposed to solve the problems of clustering at the extremely high I/O rates required by high-performance computing.

The 350 scales to 16 processors and 192GB of memory per node. Altrix 350 clusters are designed to scale out to thousands of processors.

Meanwhile, Voltaire also got an endorsement from Sun, which blessed it along with rivals InfiniCon, TopSpin, Myrinet, Quadrics and Force 10 Networks for use in grids under a new HPTC Alliance Partner Program it's set up. Voltaire also got a second win at Sandia National Labs, which will use the start-up for a new 128-node HPC cluster.

On the enterprise front, Voltaire's so-called pre-packaged Infiniband Database Kit, targeted at moving DB2 and Oracle over of proprietary hardware, has been given 64-bit support for both Itanium and Opteron. Voltaire has brought it out a new product.

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