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InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance Announce InfiniBand Low Latency Technical Forum to Take Place September 17, 2007

Presentations and Collaborative Sessions Will Emphasize How InfiniBand Delivers the Lowest Latency of Any Industry-Standard Interconnect Technology Resulting in a Positive Return on Investment for End Users

The InfiniBand Trade Association and the OpenFabrics Alliance today announced that an InfiniBand Low Latency Technical Forum has been planned for September 17 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, in co-location with the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The technical forum will bring together members from these two industry associations, along with the broader InfiniBand community. The technical forum will include presentations and collaborative sessions that examine latency in high-performance computing, storage and enterprise environments and will emphasize how end-user deployments of InfiniBand technology result in a positive return on investment.

To register

Attendees may register online at www.regonline.com/InfiniBandTechForum for the early bird rate of $149; after September 1, the rate increases to $199. Attendees may also purchase conference passes to the Intel Developer Forum at a discounted rate of $695, a savings of more than $1,000 per pass.

For more information on the Low Latency Technical Forum, please visit:

www.infinibandta.org

www.openfabrics.org

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Stanford University Advances High-Performance Computing with Cisco

Engineering school speeds interprocessor communications with Cisco® Server Fabric Switches on HPC research platforms...(read more)

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20Gb/s InfiniBand Connectivity for Mechanical Computer-Aided Design

High-performance computing is a crucial tool for automotive design and manufacturing. It is used in mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) from component-level to full structural analyses: structural integrity, airflow motions and crash simulations, thermal management, climate control, engine modeling, exhaust, acoustics and much more. HPC helps drive accelerated speed to market, significant cost reductions, and tremendous flexibility. The strength in HPC is the ability to achieve best sustained performance by driving the CPU performance towards its limits.

     Thermal comfort CFD simulation                             Volvo crash simulation

Figure: Thermal comfort CFD simulation               Figure: Volvo crash simulation

Faster Development Process
From concept to engineering, and from design to test and manufacturing, the manufacturing industry relies on powerful virtual development solutions. For example, CFD and crash simulations are performed in an effort to secure quality while speeding the development process. High-performance cluster solutions maximize the total value of ownership for CAE environments and extend innovation in virtual product development.

HPC cluster environments impose high demands for cluster connectivity throughput, low-latency, low CPU overhead, network flexibility and high-efficiency in order to maintain a balanced system and to achieve high application performance and scaling. Low-performance interconnect solutions, or lack of interconnect hardware capabilities will result in degraded system and application performance, and therefore a degradation of CAE simulation.

Increase Processor Efficiency
Mellanox’s high-performance, InfiniBand connectivity maximizes the cluster compute environment’s efficiency and scalability. Mellanox’s InfiniBand architecture is based on a full CPU offload approach with the flexibility of RDMA capabilities for reducing the traditional network protocol from the CPU and increasing the processor efficiency.

World-Class Performance
Mellanox’s 20Gb/s InfiniBand is designed for multi-core environments and can efficiently handle multiple data streams simultaneously, while at the same time, guarantee fast and reliable data transfer for each of the streams. With latency as low as 1usec, Mellanox InfiniBand enables scalable, fast communication among the processing units. For CAE applications, Mellanox InfiniBand provides a balanced compute system that maximizes the performance of HPC clusters and the efficiency of the CAE simulations.

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Marketing Alliance

Joining forces to power the data center and high-performance computing clusters

Mellanox is dedicated to building a world-class marketing alliance program by working closely with our chosen partners and customers to ensure the best total solution is available to end-customers. We are committed to cultivating long-term, marketing relationships with best-in-class original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well as strategic technology suppliers and independent software vendors (ISVs).

Member Profile for July 2007

Z Research

See Z Research in the Mellanox Booth at Linux World

Designed to seamlessly scale to Petabytes, Z Research's GlusterFS aggregates various storage bricks/servers over InfiniBand RDMA or TCP/IP interconnects into one
large parallel network file system and sits on top of any POSIX compliant operating system so the learning curve is minimal and it can be deployed in minutes.

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Mellanox Cluster Center

Cluster Center Apply Now!

Mellanox Cluster Center offers an environment for developing, testing, benchmarking and optimizing products based on InfiniBand technology. The center, located in Santa Clara, California, provides on-site technical support and can be accessed through secure sessions onsite or remotely.

The Cluster Center provides a unique ability to access the latest InfiniBand technology, even before it is generally available to the public. It provides a development testing and tuning environment for applications to take advantages of Mellanox’s superior characteristics...(more)

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