|
 |
| “ANSYS customers will be very well served by the leading performance and scalability levels achieved with Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand. The combination of InfiniBand and our engineering simulation software helps our customers get more value from their analysis process, resulting in improved time to market and reduced engineering costs.” |
| Chris Reid, vice president, marketing at ANSYS, Inc. |
|
 |
| “Citrix delivers an end-to-end virtualization solution with Citrix XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop. Usage scenarios including dynamic provisioning of workloads, storage virtualization and consolidation place more demands on server input/output. We are pleased to include support for Mellanox’s ConnectX EN 10GigE NIC in XenServer 4.1, making it easier for users to improve throughput and performance in a seamless fashion.” |
| Phil Montgomery, Senior Director, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix Systems |
|
 |
“As one of the first members to join and actively collaborate in the VMware Community Source program, Mellanox was a key player in enabling InfiniBand I/O technologies for VMware Infrastructure. The enablement of InfiniBand-based adapters in VMware Infrastructure enables the entire InfiniBand ecosystem to leverage the market-leading VMware platform.”
|
| Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware |
|
 |
“Microsoft is pleased to be working with Mellanox Technologies to ensure that Windows HPC Server 2008 solutions with high-speed InfiniBand interconnect adapters deliver an outstanding level of performance, scalability and efficiency. Our new networking architecture takes advantage of the advanced InfiniBand capabilities to provide lowest latency and higher throughput for performance-sensitive applications.”
|
| Kyril Faenov, general manager of HPC at Microsoft |
|
 |
“The HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System is designed to address the growing need from midmarket customers to leverage high-performance computing technologies to accelerate research, engineering and scientific outcomes. The Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand products further build on the leadership I/O capabilities of this platform by providing superior connectivity that enables these companies to attack larger and more complex problems that are impractical with a single server or workstation.”
|
| Ty Rabe, director of research and development, high-performance computing, HP. |
|
 |
| “High-performance computing is constantly finding new applications in both science and industry, fostering new demands for performance and density, as well as finding new roles within the data center. With its increased bandwidth and lower latencies, Mellanox’s ConnectX adapters provide significant benefits that are an excellent match for today’s HPC and data center requirements.” |
| Bjorn Andersson, Director of HPC Systems at Sun Microsystems Inc. |
|
 |
| “Products built utilizing the InfiniScale IV architecture will enable computing systems tackling complex and challenging workloads to scale to higher performance levels. This is becoming increasingly important in a number of markets including technical computing and certain enterprise arenas, where applications are more sensitive to I/O bandwidth and latency." |
| Jie Wu, Research Manager for IDC's Technical Computing Systems program. |
|
|
| “HP is leading the industry by providing a 20Gb/s InfiniBand unified fabric in the HP BladeSystem c7000 as the cluster interconnect for Oracle RAC deployments, adding additional utility to the HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade. In addition to the record performance of this TPC-H data warehouse application, HP has integrated the storage subsystem within the c7000, which significantly reduces the cost and power utilization compared to typical rack systems.” |
| Mark Potter, vice president, BladeSystem Division, HP |
|
 |
| “High-performance computing clusters can range from as few as two to thousands of servers woven together to deliver the performance demanded by a broad range of applications including those in commercial and enterprise markets such as computer-aided engineering (CAE), financial services and life sciences – all can take advantage of high-performance cluster computing. By integrating Mellanox ConnectX IB InfiniBand adapters, IBM’s BladeCenter H can provide unprecedented levels of performance for a multitude of high-performance computing environments and applications.” |
| Alex Yost, VP and Business Line Executive, BladeCenter |
|
 |
| “PCI Express and Mellanox adapters continue to keep pace with each other, ensuring optimal performance in Intel-based servers with PCI Express 2.0 technology. We have been working closely with Mellanox on the validation to ensure seamless compatibility and maximum performance in these systems.” |
| Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group |
|
|
| “When it comes to the infrastructure behind their business, our customers deserve affordable technology that is right-sized for them – solutions that are not only powerful, but practica. The Mellanox ConnectX IB InfiniBand products further build on the leadership I/O capabilities of the HP BladeSystem c7000, providing superior connectivity that enables increased productivity at a price/performance unseen before by mid-market customers and businesses with small IT sites and remote offices.” |
| Mark Potter, vice president, BladeSystem Division, HP |
|
 |
| “To deliver end user satisfaction with applications that demand multi-terabytes of files-based storage capacity, cost and power savings are as important as ability to scale in a flexible way. Our data mining applications using NFS-RDMA and Mellanox-based InfiniBand solutions are enabling us to deliver on that promise with maximum ROI.” |
| Ekechi Nwokah, Storage Architect at Alexa Internet, an Amazon.com subsidiary |
|
|
| “The HPC market is seeing increased demand for industry standards-based clusters such as those based on the HP BladeSystem c-Class, which offers great performance, consumes less power, and lowers total cost of ownership. The Mellanox InfiniBand mezzanine cards further build on the leadership I/O capabilities of the HP BladeSystem c-Class, providing superior connectivity that enables increased HPC productivity.” |
| Winston Prather, vice president and general manager, High Performance Computing Division, HP |
|
|
| “The collaboration between Mellanox and Sun enabled us to build a PetaScale fabric with a cross sectional throughput of several hundred Terabits per second and a ping latency of less than two microseconds. “With this fabric, the Sun Constellation System can scale beyond PetaFLOP performance using industry-standard fabric architecture.” |
| Andy Bechtolsheim, senior vice president for Sun Microsystems |
|
 |
| “As the volume market leader in high speed interconnects, specifically 10 and 20Gb/s InfiniBand products, Mellanox is well positioned to understand the challenges with driving 10 Gigabit Ethernet products to volume. The feature set of ConnectX EN is clearly designed to take advantage of the growing multi-core CPU and virtualization trends in the industry, and the simplicity of the single-chip design is ideal for volume applications.” |
| Bob Wheeler, Senior Analyst for The Linley Group |
|
|
| “Intel’s high performance multi-core processor based servers with PCI Express 2.0 technology and high speed PCIe 2.0 I/O adapters such as the Mellanox ConnectX IB InfiniBand 40Gb/s solution will continue to provide the optimal performance-balanced systems for the world’s most challenging applications. We are working with Mellanox and the industry to ensure future technology compatibility, robustness and optimize for maximum performance as we roll out the Stoakley and other PCI Express 2.0 enabled servers.” |
| Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group |
|
|
| “PCI Express and Intel QuickData technology provide a low disruption path to scaling I/O by respectively increasing bandwidth and efficiencies for I/O in Intel-based servers. With innovative implementation of these technologies by companies like Mellanox, I/O on Intel’s enterprise platforms continues to be accelerated for the demanding multi-core application needs of today and the future.” |
| Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group |
|
 |
| “When used with the Xen virtualization technology inside of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, ConnectX IB InfiniBand adapters can lower I/O costs and improve I/O utilization. Service-oriented architectures demand native I/O performance from virtual machines and Mellanox’s I/O virtualization architecture perfectly complements Novell's technical leadership in delivering mission-critical operating systems to our customers.” |
| Holger Dyroff, vice president of SUSE Linux Enterprise product management at Novell |
|
 |
| “Extremely high volumes of concurrent users and increasingly complex transactions are making access to data one of the greatest bottlenecks to performance in grid computing. ConnectX IB InfiniBand HCAs offer leading latency, throughput and reliable performance that can help eliminate interconnect-related data latency degradations and is therefore a perfect complement to GigaSpaces’ products for increasing overall application performance and scalability.” |
| Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpaces |
|
|
| “Today’s science demands continue to outpace the number of available engineers and their associated budgets, driving the need for more productivity per scientist. Technologies that improve I/O latencies and message rates, like ConnectX IB adapters, enhance the ability of Windows Compute Cluster Server to deliver high performance computing for the mainstream researcher and engineer.” |
| Shawn Hansen, director of marketing, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corporation |
|
 |
| “IT organizations in industries ranging from HPC to financial services are continually looking at ways to get the most out of their critical software applications. The increased bandwidths and lower latencies delivered in Mellanox’s ConnectX InfiniBand adapters combined with Voltaire’s multi-service switching platforms will bring significantly greater application acceleration benefits to our customers.” |
| Patrick Guay, senior vice president of marketing at Voltaire |
|
|
| “Scaling high-performance applications and clusters without compromising performance is becoming a critical need, driven by ever-increasing computation needs. ConnectX IB HCAs offer novel scalability features that complement our vision for delivering compelling solutions to our end users.” |
| Andy Bechtolsheim, chief architect and senior vice president for Sun Microsystems |
|
Cisco |
| “Clearly InfiniBand is reaching market maturity with this fourth generation server host chip and adapter level interface technology from Mellanox. As we bring these host interface cards to market over the next several calendar quarters, as fully integrated with our scalable Server Fabric Switching product line, customers will see significant latency improvements, and greater end to end delivery reliability, especially when scaling large computing clusters with thousands of high end compute nodes.” |
| Bill Erdman, marketing director of Cisco Systems Server Virtualization Business Unit. |
|
|
| “Our high-performance BladeSystem c-Class customer applications are increasingly relying on lower interconnect latency to improve performance and keep costs in check. With the promise of even better application latency, HP's c-Class blades featuring the forthcoming Mellanox ConnectX IB HCAs will further enhance HP's industry-leading 4X DDR InfiniBand capability, bringing new dimensions to how Fortune 500 companies deploy clusters and improve ROI.” |
| Mark Potter, vice president of the BladeSystem Division at HP |
|
|
| “Microsoft is pleased to collaborate with Mellanox to deliver the performance and scalability of InfiniBand for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. By achieving Microsoft Windows Hardware Logo qualification, Mellanox has a compelling proof-point for our most demanding customers that InfiniBand is ready for primetime deployment.” |
| Shawn Hansen, director of HPC marketing, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. |
|
 |
| “Customers porting applications to 1U servers and server blades with little room for network connectivity (network, storage, and server) are deploying InfiniBand adapters powered by Mellanox silicon in increasing numbers. As the market for high bandwidth low latency Mellanox silicon expands out of the high performance computing market and into the commercial computing and storage markets, ESG believes that Mellanox has made a brilliant move by incorporating 10 Gigabit Ethernet support into their amazingly affordable family of single chip solutions.” |
| Brian Garrett, an industry analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group |
|
|
| “Companies such as Mellanox are developing the InfiniBand architecture that is a key element for high performance applications in an Intel multi-core environment. RDMA and network acceleration technologies are necessary for maximizing performance and CPU cycles dedicated for application use, providing the ability to solve more complex problems in less time. This is important for future applications usage, such as virtual vehicle design or earthquake prediction.” |
| Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing at Intel Corporation |
|
|
| “Novell has been collaborating with Mellanox on various fronts, including support of Mellanox InfiniBand solutions and OFED with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE® Linux Enterprise Real Time. The Neptune Cluster is a great vehicle for customers and ISVs to experience the benefits of the integrated Mellanox and Novell solutions and testing their applications above them.” |
| Moiz Kohari, director of real-time solutions at Novell |
|
|
| “The Sun Blade 8000 Modular System is the industry's first flexible, rear accessible, hot-plug PCI ExpressModule implementation in modular blade form factor. The Mellanox ExpressModule HCA delivers a highly serviceable, highly reliable InfiniBand fabric interconnect solution for high-performance server clusters.” |
| Mike McNerney, director of blades marketing for Sun Microsystems' Systems Group |
|
|
| “Concurrent Real-Time Extensions on SUSE Linux enables compute intensive parallel applications, and bandwidth intensive storage applications used in clusters to perform within strict latency and timing tolerance levels. Financial trading and analytics based large volumes of market data, where the speed and timing guarantee of order execution is of paramount importance, are examples of applications that can benefit from a real-time solution from Novell and Mellanox.” |
| Moiz Kohari, director of real-time solutions at Novell |
|
|
“JPMorgan uses blade servers linked by InfiniBand…and supports 14 applications across multiple lines of business…the firm has seen hardware utilization go from an average of 15 percent of capacity before the project to 70 percent…combined with shrinking unit costs.” |
|
|
“Data center designers that cannot compromise on latency delays in their applications, and want to consolidate I/O, find InfiniBand’s value proposition to be very compelling. We are happy to be working with Mellanox at several mutual customers to deliver a solution that offers better control over the network fabric and a strong foundation to deploy Xen virtualization for large, multi-node clusters. By using open source InfiniBand software from OpenFabrics.org to add support for InfiniBand based I/O virtualization, we will enable organizations to improve server utilization and create a flexible and responsive data center.” |
| Holger Dyroff, vice president of product management for SUSE Linux at Novell |
|
|
“InfiniBand building blocks from Mellanox enable compute resources to be dynamically matched with each I/O component, facilitating unprecedented server performance and scalability. The PANTAmatrix system has been able to demonstrate greater than 10X performance improvements for actual compute and I/O intensive customer workloads such as streams processing. In addition, server reconfiguration is possible within minutes, in order to match workload demands, using the System Management interface.” |
| Scott Rose, Vice President of Product Management at PANTA Systems |
|
|
“InfiniBand’s ability to partition I/O to multiple end-points, and consolidate I/O across data center applications holds the promise for added flexibility and cost savings within VMware environments. Mellanox has a clear commitment to delivering cost-effective virtual infrastructure solutions and has been actively involved in the VMware Community Source program since its inception. We continue to look forward to working with them in concert with other InfiniBand vendors within the community.” |
| Bernie Mills, senior director of developer programs at VMware |
|
Cisco Systems |
| "As InfiniBand increasingly becomes an interconnect of choice in not just high performance computing environments, but also in mainstream enterprise grids and data center virtualization solutions. DDR technology will only help to deliver an even more compelling price/performance metric. The performance of InfiniBand coupled with the economic benefits of our consolidation and virtualization capabilities offers our customers an ideal combination as they build out their data center server fabrics to be both high performance and highly flexible." |
Krish Ramakrishnan, Vice President and General Manager for Server Networking and Virtualization at Cisco System
|
|
 |
"A key metric to HPC application scalability is the bandwidth balance between the system processor, memory, PCI Express, and the cluster network. The recent introduction of dual-core processors places additional data contention on the servers I/O system. The introduction of DDR solutions ensures that InfiniBand will remove the network bottleneck in these next generation servers." |
Matt Leininger, computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, and technical representative for the DoE OpenIB PathForward
|
|
 |
"Linux Networx focuses on delivering new, innovative technologies that improve the performance of our Evolocity* computing systems. The software compatibility between 10Gb/s and 20Gb/s InfiniBand technology makes it possible for our customers to recognize the performance benefits of DDR technology. Our customers are interested in economically scaling from small configurations to multi-thousand node supercomputing environments, and DDR InfiniBand is an attractive choice for bringing high-performance compute and storage management together." |
| Eric Pitcher, vice president of technical marketing for Linux Networx |
|
 |
"DDR technology further increases the strategic importance of using InfiniBand to directly attach servers to storage through a unified fabric. A 20Gb/s InfiniBand connection provides the highest performance available on a single industry standard I/O Storage link, ultimately delivering world-class performance for high-throughput HPC storage applications." |
Bret Weber, Director of Architecture for Engenio
|
|
 |
"InfiniBand has enabled the Isilon IQ clustered storage system to easily scale past 150 terrabytes of capacity with 3 gigabytes per second of storage performance from a single file system. We picked InfiniBand with its aggressive roadmap to 20Gb/s DDR technology and beyond as it gives us a competitive edge over all other interconnect solutions and allows us to scale our clustered storage solutions for many generations to come. We applaud Mellanox for driving this technology into the marketplace." |
Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing and Business Development for Isilon Systems
|
|
|
"InfiniBand DDR allows Voltaire to extend its leadership position in the area of high performance grid computing. As clusters continue to grow in size, demand has increased for bandwidth as well as support for higher aggregate bandwidth per switch. DDR solutions allow these objectives to be met and continue to increase the overall performance of compute clusters and grids." |
Patrick Guay, Vice President, Marketing of Voltaire
|
|
 |
"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's high-performance computing cluster environments are expanding rapidly from hundreds of nodes to multiple thousands of nodes. The 60Gb/s uplinks for inter-switch communication provide a cost effective solution for large clusters and create a more manageable cable infrastructure as only a single 12X cable is required. We are encouraged by the advance of OpenIB in unifying the InfiniBand marketplace and in making it more accessible. Taken together, these innovations advance high performance scientific computing by allowing research programs, such as those at Livermore, to build large clusters out of four socket nodes." |
Mark Seager, Department Head of Advanced Technologies, Livermore Computing
|
|
|
|
“With InfiniBand’s industry-leading scalability and performance, solutions such as 10-Gbps adapter cards coming from a number of companies, including Mellanox, will help drive down the cost per node of 10-Gbps enabled servers. This broad growth of products will have a positive effect on the proliferation of 10-Gbps clusters in performance business and technical computing applications.” |
Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel’s Enterprise Platform Group
|
|
|
 |
|
"As it fought to gain market acceptance over the past four years, InfiniBand technology had to overcome obstacles regarding software support, performance and price. SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol), DAPL (Direct Access Programming Library) and time have eliminated most of the software issues. 4X (10Gb/s) signaling and PCI Express have eliminated bottlenecks and unleashed performance. Now, Mellanox’s InfiniHost III Lx makes InfiniBand an affordable alternative for even the most aggressively priced rack-mounted and blade servers. It has taken longer than most expected, but InfiniBand is finally poised to fulfill its destiny.” |
Nathan Brookwood, Principal Analyst - Insight 64
|
|
|
|
|
“InfiniBand has already made significant inroads in the high performance server clustering market, so this aggressive new price point should hasten its usage in enterprise applications. I also like the fact that InfiniBand optimizes the performance of the entire PCI Express infrastructure being deployed in today's data centers.” |
Vernon Turner, Group Vice President and General Manager - Enterprise Computing, at research firm International Data Corp. (IDC)
|
|
|
|
|
"The company's (Mellanox) MemFree technology reduces system cost, power, and space requirements. These factors combined with Mellanox's performance roadmap should accelerate adoption of InfiniBand technology on servers and storage platforms." |
Jag Bolaria - Senior Analyst for Linley Group
|
|
|
 |
|
"NEC's Itanium blade server is the first major systems vendor to offer the Itanium Processor Family [IPF] as part of a blade environment. I'd expect other first-tier server vendors to follow suit in the next 12 months. This platform is also interesting because it supports InfiniBand natively, something that other blade vendors are bound to offer as a way of improving inter-node communication." |
Jamie Gruener - Senior Analyst for The Yankee Group
|
|
|
 |
|
"I've got basically $30,000 worth of x345s running on InfiniBand, and it's keeping pace with about $650,000 worth of larger Unix nodes." |
Don Canning, Vice President of IS - Prudential Financial
|
|
|
 |
|
“InfiniCon's solutions bring the high-performance power of InfiniBand to Oracle Database 10g environments. This type of intelligent infrastructure addresses the lower cost clustering and flexible resource allocation capabilities that are hallmarks of grid computing, for which Oracle Database 10g was clearly designed.” |
Juan Loaiza, Vice President, Systems Technology Group - Oracle Corporation
|
|
|
 |
|
"The InfiniBand market has advanced significantly over the past year with support from leading vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SUN, HP, SGI and Apple, and, more importantly, from customers in the high performance computing and enterprise data center markets. The strong endorsements from Voltaire's prestigious customers and the quality of the company's management team were key factors in our decision to invest in this round." |
Ashley Leeds, Partner, Baker Capital
|
|
|
 |
|
"InfiniBand is attractive to customers for HPC cluster applications. We also anticipate database clusters, such as Oracle 10g, will benefit from the Topspin switch fabric." |
Reza Rooholamini, Director of Engineering - Dell's Enterprise Product Group
|
|
|
 |
|
"Topspin's ability to marry the economics and flexibility of industry-standard servers with the performance and scalability previously reserved for proprietary high-end platforms has had tremendous resonance with our customers. Combining our InfiniBand-based server switching solutions together with Dell, the leader in Intel-based high performance computing clusters, makes this value proposition even stronger." |
Krish Ramakrishnan, CEO of Topspin
|
|
|
 |
|
"The industry has made strong progress in delivering outstanding performance and price-performance for clustered HPC and data center applications with InfiniBand technology. By continuing to enhance the specification for increased signaling rates up to 120 Gbps and other ongoing enhancements, we ensure that InfiniBand technology will continue to deliver industry-leading performance and capabilities with headroom for the future." |
Tom Macdonald - Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Advanced Components Division and InfiniBand Trade Association co-chair
|
|
|
 |
|
"As a systems leader and an active participant in the InfiniBand Trade Association, Sun works with best-in-class InfiniBand technology providers such as Mellanox to develop InfiniBand-based hardware and software. With its improved support for bandwidth and lower latencies, the InfiniBand architecture and PCI Express have the potential to offer tremendous performance benefits to InfiniBand-based blade servers." |
Subodh Bapat, vice president and chief technologist, Volume Systems Products, Sun Microsystems
|
|
|
 |
|
“PCI Express and InfiniBand are a perfect marriage of technologies for data center computing. Combined they enable an unprecedented 20Gb/sec bandwidth from Intel® Architecture-based processors to server and storage systems on an InfiniBand fabric. We have been working closely with Mellanox on their design and verification of PCI Express-enabled InfiniHost III Ex products to help ensure interoperability with Intel Architecture-based server chipsets and platforms.” |
Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel’s Enterprise Platform Group
|
|
|
 |
|
"InfiniBand will be the first interconnect to hit 100Gbit/s. I think [next-generation signaling for] InfiniBand will end up being 5Gbits/s. That's the targeted rate they have been working on," he added. |
Michael Krause - senior I/O engineering manager for Hewlett-Packard
|
|
|
|
|
"With widespread InfiniBand product adoption in view, it is now time for the industry to come together and look at the next phase of InfiniBand development. With processing performance continuing to increase with Moore's Law, interconnect technologies must keep pace. The new specification is looking to at least double the signaling rate to push InfiniBand link performance beyond the 100Gbps barrier. The February Developers' Conference gives our membership an opportunity to hear the latest updates on specification development currently underway." |
Bob Zak, Sun Microsystems' representative to the IBTA steering committee
|
|
|
|
|
"With this announcement, IBM has placed a major stake in the ground in its commitment to InfiniBand. As the only industry-standard interconnect today with scalability up to 30Gbps, and remote direct memory access (RDMA), we are convinced that this technology will dramatically improve and simplify the way servers communicate. Working with Topspin, our plan is to make InfiniBand a base technology for all IBM eServer systems and storage, and the underlying fabric for future initiatives around on-demand computing." |
Mark Shearer, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy - IBM Systems Group
|
|
|
|
|
"IBM, along with every other server vendor on the planet, is going to use InfiniBand because it's going to be the killer infrastructural play that makes infrastructural applications move into the new millennium, performance and scale-wise. The best part is customers don't even know what they are in for. In a few months, IBM, Sun, and others will be showing them commodity server platforms that scale beyond belief, and that accelerate their Oracle or DB2 by 500%. This stuff is going to spread faster than a brush fire within a year." |
Steve Duplessie - Founder, Enterprise Storage Group
|
|
|
|
|
"IBM has placed a major stake in the ground in its commitment to InfiniBand. As the only industry-standard interconnect today with scalability up to 30Gbps, and remote direct memory access (RDMA), we are convinced that this technology will dramatically improve and simplify the way servers communicate." |
Mark Shearer, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy - IBM Systems Group
|
|
|
|
|
"Working with Topspin, our plan is to make InfiniBand a base technology for all IBM eServer systems and storage, and the underlying fabric for future initiatives around on-demand computing.” |
Mark Shearer, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy - IBM Systems Group
|
|
|
|
|
"Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions provide significant application performance improvements and increased scalability to Oracle Database 10g. Enterprise customers in Japan now have powerful InfiniBand database solutions to facilitate the move to grid computing." |
Howard Cohen, Vice President, Distributed Systems - Oracle Corporation
|
|
|
 |
|
"Voltaire's solutions are the leading InfiniBand systems available today in terms of innovation, maturity and reliability. Voltaire's high performance InfiniBand solutions are ideal for customers who are looking to build high performance and cost-effective Oracle Database clusters using industry standard servers, storage and software." |
Masayoshi Maki, Executive Officer - Hitachi-SAS
|
|
|
 |
|
"The enterprise data center, a la Oracle 10g and IBM DB2, is waiting in the wings. If InfiniBand catches on there, it will be a fun 2004 for both InfiniBand and Mellanox." |
Jeremey Donovan, Chief Analyst - Gartner Dataquest
|
|
|
|
|
"It’s clear that the advancements made in Intel architecture server building blocks including Xeon and Itanium 2 processors, server chipsets, and server platforms coupled with the advancement of the InfiniBand clustering technology have created an inflection point in price-performance for high performance computing." |
Tom Macdonald, General Manager, Advanced Components Division - Intel
|
|
|
|
|
"The combination of high performance and affordable prices makes InfiniBand the technology to beat in HPC applications. This new Mellanox switch breaks the $400 per port price barrier, and will add to InfiniBand's momentum in the increasingly popular clustered configurations favored by HPC and enterprise customers." |
Nathan Brookwood, Principal Analyst - Insight 64
|
|
|
|
|
“InfiniBand is the next wave in clustering and it is impacting many market segments, including high performance clusters, enterprise databases and visualization applications. And as Mellanox and Intel move their future individual HCA and platform designs to the 8X PCI-Express interconnect, the performance only gets better as it improves the I/O bandwidth from 8Gb/sec to 20Gb/sec.” |
Jim Pappas, Director of Initiative Marketing - Intel Enterprise Platform Group
|
|
|
|
|
"InfiniBand has three fundamental features that no other I/O technology has. Today it's the only technology that can run at 10Gbit/sec. over copper. [The current 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet standard runs only on single-mode fiber]. The specification includes a built-in protocol offload engine so that the server CPU doesn't have to do as much work. And it supports Remote Direct Memory Access [RDMA] ... a technology that bypasses the need to make multiple copies of the data in memory. InfiniBand gives mainframe I/O capability to the open standards space." |
Tom Bradicich, co-chairman of the InfiniBand Trade Association as well as chief technology officer of IBM's xSeries server line
|
