November 20, 2006
Voltaire has entered into a global
agreement with Sun Microsystems that brings Voltaire's products into
Sun's portfolio of technologies for building integrated high
performance computing systems. Included in the terms of the agreement
are Voltaire's InfiniBand and multi-service director-class switches,
host channel adapters and software, which Sun will use in pre-designed,
factory-integrated solutions. The combined solution is designed to
enable customers to gain performance and scalability for their clusters
and grids.
One of Sun's offerings for high performance computing
is the Sun Grid Rack System, a system with Sun servers, networking
options and Grid-ready software, delivered in a Sun rack. With a
flexible, open architecture design, Sun Grid Rack Systems are designed
to simplify the deployment and adoption of Grid computing
architectures. Voltaire multi-service Grid Director switches offer
integrated InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity
in a single enclosure and, according to Voltaire, are deployed
successfully in many of the world's largest supercomputers and grids.
Voltaire
technology is also part of the new Sun Grid Rack System model designed
for storage grids. The Grid Rack System for Scalable Storage combines
the Sun Fire X4500 hybrid data server, Sun StorageTek arrays, Voltaire
InfiniBand fabrics, and the Lustre cluster file system, designed to
ensure great scalability for data access.
"Sun and Voltaire
share a goal of delivering the highest-performance, complete cluster
and Grid solutions to our customers," said Bjorn Andersson, director
for HPC and Integrated Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The new Sun Grid
Rack System for Scalable Storage is an example of our collaboration,
and adds to the great momentum we have in the market place with
integrated products. We are now pleased to provide more options for
integrating InfiniBand technology with the products from Voltaire."
"While
Sun and Voltaire have collaborated for quite some time to deliver high
performance clusters and grids to customers worldwide, we are very
pleased to take the next step by announcing the global agreement," said
Mark Favreau, president and head of worldwide sales for Voltaire. "We
look forward to building on our relationship with Sun to deliver ultra
high performance, innovative, yet easy-to-deploy solutions to our
customers."
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