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Integrated infiniband solution |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 00:00 |
ADVA Optical Networking, Obsidian Strategic and Voltaire have announced an integrated capability to extend InfiniBand connections to 50km without performance degradation. The solution was successfully tested at the University of Stuttgart's High Performance Computing Center (HLRS), which provides systems, tools and expertise for public and private supercomputing development projects.
Extending InfiniBand across the metropolitan area network (MAN) will allow enterprises to greatly enhance not only their supercomputing, but also their disaster-recovery and storage-networking applications, using InfiniBand as the underlying unified network architecture.
"High performance, low latency and its unified fabric capability have made InfiniBand a steadily more popular connectivity solution for inside the data centre. Until now, InfiniBand has been limited as an inside-the-datacentre solution," said Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Resch, Director HLRS. "The ability to extend the protocol over distance at full throughput offers totally new HPC scenarios."
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