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SilverStorm Technologies' InfiniBand DDR Shipments Reach 10,000 Port Milestone; Customer Demand for the World's Highest Capacity Cluster Computing Interconnect System Increases Rapidly

Posted on: Thursday, 14 September 2006, 12:00 CDT

SilverStorm Technologies, the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, announced today that it has shipped over 10,000 ports of 20Gb/s InfiniBand DDR in its award winning portfolio of interconnect products since reaching general availability in June of this year. DDR shipments have been made to over 25 different customers including Chevron, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, and the US Department of Defense in support of a variety of supercomputing applications, including the setting of a new world record visualization rendering rate of 1.5 billion polygons per second by a Linux Networx system currently being delivered to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

"We continue to see outstanding demand from our customers for DDR," said Reini Florin, SilverStorm's VP of marketing. "With industry leading bandwidth, low latencies, and price performance, it is no surprise that InfiniBand DDR has rapidly become the technology of choice for high performance applications."

Supporting bandwidths of 20Gb/s host-to-host and 60Gb/s switch-to-switch, SilverStorm's DDR products enable the construction of ever larger, higher performing supercomputing clusters. Commercial customers, universities, and government institutions can significantly improve application accuracy, reduce time to results, and bring products to market more quickly.

SilverStorm's DDR products provide much greater performance than today's 10Gb/s Ethernet switches and proprietary interconnects such as Myrinet at a fraction of the cost for similarly scaled fabrics. SilverStorm's portfolio of Edge Switch and Multi-protocol Fabric Director products is unmatched in the industry. Chassis configurations come in 24, 12, 8, 4 and single module versions ranging in size from 14U to 1U. The multi-module chassis units can be populated with any combination of InfiniBand SDR (10Gb/s) switch modules, DDR (20Gb/s) switch modules, or Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) modules. VIC modules enable hosts on InfiniBand fabrics to transparently access Fibre Channel or Ethernet networks or both. Up to 288 InfiniBand 20Gb/s switch ports, up to 48 10Gb/s Ethernet virtual controller ports, and up to 192 Fibre Channel virtual controller ports can be supported in a single chassis. SilverStorm's QuickSilver High Performance Fabric Access and FastFabric software suite rounds out the solution by providing comprehensive configuration, performance management, diagnostics, and control for the overall interconnect fabric.

About SilverStorm Technologies

SilverStorm designs, manufactures and services a family of networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve cluster performance and scalability. SilverStorm solutions power some of the world's largest supercomputers in diverse fields including Oil and Gas exploration, Automotive and Aerospace design, Financial Services, Bio Medical and University/Government Research. SilverStorm's customers include AMD, Canon, Chevron, Intel, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Riken Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, the US Department of Defense, and Virginia Tech University. Several of the world's TOP500 supercomputers utilize SilverStorm products. SilverStorm is also a member of Blade.org, a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. For more information, visit www.silverstorm.com or contact info@silverstorm.com.

All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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