InfiniCon and Voltaire both announce InfiniBand partnerships.
Two
leading InfiniBand switch makers InfiniCon Systems Inc. and Voltaire Inc.
on Tuesday announced their presence at the LinuxWorld show with new
partnerships geared to ramp up buzz for the technology.InfiniCon
agreed to provide a 128-node InfiniBand-based network fabric to support
testing and scaling of high performance computing (HPC) clusters at the
AMD Developer Center. The collaboration combines AMDs 64-bit processing
with InfiniCons networking technology, which is capable of up to 30G bps.
Voltaire inked an agreement with server maker SGI to craft
InfiniBand-driven clusters for SGIs Altix 350 servers. SGI Professional
Services will offer InfiniBand products to customers seeking 64-bit Linux
cluster solutions based on the SGI Altix platform.
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