SGI Offers 10 Gigabit Ethernet in Product Line
Posted on: Sunday, 25 July 2004, 06:00 CDT
Silicon Graphics has announced that it will offer 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity across its product offering of servers, workstations, advanced graphics systems and storage solutions. SGI is offering the new PCI-X adapter option for customers who increasingly need to transfer massive data sets between large systems, or as an ingest engine for huge I/O data streams.
Products now featuring 10Gb Ethernet include SGI Altix servers and superclusters, SGI Origin servers, Silicon Graphics Tezro visual workstations, Onyx visualization systems, and SGI InfiniteStorage SAN, NAS, and DLM solutions.
Customers in advanced computing environments - including government, defense, sciences and media - are working with ever more complex data sets. Virtual cockpits used in distributed mission training, for example, process terabytes of data in real time to produce interactive visual simulations that often are driven by multiple visualization systems and displays. With 10Gb Ethernet connectivity, transferring simulation data from one cockpit to the next, which is often required to synchronizing training environments among multiple pilots, can happen in a fraction of the time it takes over traditional Ethernet connections.
"It's standard for the 10-year ocean simulations running today to output data sets on the order of 2 terabytes," said Walt Brooks, chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division. "Developers hope to improve the performance of this calculation to finish in one day. Moving this volume of data between systems can slow down the development and data analysis process. Faster LAN networks such as 10Gb Ethernet are needed to keep pace with the volume of data generated on today's super-computing systems."
For users of SGI servers, NAS storage and visualization systems, SGI will offer the Xframe 10 Gigabit Ethernet card from S2io Inc. The 10Gb Ethernet adapter for SGI systems can be placed in a standard PCI-X slot for port aggregation, potentially replacing multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports with a single 10Gb Ethernet port. The IEEE 802.3ae compliant card leverages existing data center infrastructure, requiring no changes to existing 50 micron cabling, operating systems or network administration tools.
The 10Gb Ethernet adapter for SGI systems is available today for both 64-bit Linux and IRIX operating systems.
Copyright Publications & Communications, Inc. Jun 2004
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