20090716 Thursday July 16, 2009

QDR Infiniband Performance on Sun Constellation System

The Sun Constellation System Blog has an interesting writeup on QDR infiniband performance:

"One of the most valuable features of the Sun Constellation System is that Infiniband QDR is build right onto the Sun Blade X6275. Then using the Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand Quad Data Rate Switch Network Express Module (QNEM for short) , tremendous bandwidth between compute systems can be achieved." Full Story

Posted by Rich Brueckner [Networking] ( July 16, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
 20090709 Thursday July 09, 2009

Video: Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 648

The Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 648 reduces the cost and complexity of large-scale HPC solutions. This high-density, Quad Data Rate (QDR) IB core switch offers unrivaled capacity for up to 648 servers and storage systems. And it replaces up to 152 discrete switching elements and thousands of cables in large-scale solutions, all while delivering extremely low latency and breakthrough economics. Full Story

Posted by Rich Brueckner [Networking] ( July 09, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]