Systems/Enterprise:
Mellanox PARTNERS WITH IBM TO
POWER GRID APPLICATIONS
Mellanox Technologies Ltd, the leader in InfiniBand silicon, announced
e-Business enterprise applications running on a grid cluster of
InfiniBand-enabled IBM xSeries servers running IBM DB2 Universal Database, and
other mid-tier application software at LinuxWorld 2003, in New York City.
The DB2 for Linux Grid Clustering solution being demonstrated features four
enterprise applications -- SAP R/3, mySAP CRM, mySAP Business Intelligence and
IBM WebSphere Application Server -- running on IBM's DB2 Universal
Database.
The platform is based on a 40-node grid cluster of IBM eServer xSeries
servers
running SuSE Linux Grid Enterprise Server operating system and supporting a
native InfiniBand NAS storage solution.
"IBM is committed to support the efforts of its Linux partners to enhance
the
scalability and reliability of Linux for the enterprise," said Lauren
Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "The
combination DB2 for Linux and Mellanox devices enables customers to deploy a
powerful, high performance data center solution that generates a quick return
on investment and lowers the total of cost of computing."
The DB2 for Linux GRid Clustering solution features breakthrough
performance
of Mellanox's InfiniHost and InfiniScale devices. These InfiniBand solutions
deliver up to eight times the bandwidth of gigabit Ethernet and up to three
times the bandwidth of existing proprietary server interconnect technologies.
InfiniBand technology enables the combination of bandwidth, latency, and
performance capabilities demanded by enterprise applications while using
industry standard architecture systems. These capabilities are enabling IT
managers to deploy low cost high performance InfiniBand clusters in enterprise
data centers.
By utilizing SDP (sockets direct protocol), from Voltaire, enterprise
applications can run without software modifications. Therefore InfiniBand
technology can be introduced seamlessly into data centers, providing a
significant performance boost, with no disruption to existing infrastructure
and software.
Voltaire is also providing InfiniBand switch routers that serve as the
infrastructure for the clusters and provide high performance connectivity to
the TCP/IP world. In addition, storage-performance is enhanced by running NFS
(network file system) over InfiniBand links. This allows a standard storage
RAID system to be upgraded with an InfiniBand PCI-X card that delivers
performance approaching 7 Gb/sec of data bandwidth.
"Voltaire is glad to provide a complete suite of InfiniBand solutions for
DB2
for Linux Clustering solutions," said Ronnie Kenneth, CEO Voltaire
Communications. "We are proud to be the first to provide robust and
high-performance InfiniBand infrastructure including switch routers and host
software, that takes DB2 grid clusters to new heights."
At LinuxWorld LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, January 21-24 at the Jacob K.
Javits Convention Center, New York, NY; IBM booth #431.
About InfiniBand
The InfiniBand Architecture is the only 10Gb/sec ultra low latency grid
clustering, communication and storage interconnect in the market today. Based
on an industry standard with reliability, availability, serviceability and
manageability features designed in from the ground up, InfiniBand provides the
most robust data center or HPC interconnect solution available. These
attributes greatly improve TCO for the data center.
Low cost InfiniBand silicon is shipping today that supports 10Gb/sec RDMA
transfers and with its approved specification for 30Gb/sec, InfiniBand is at
least a generation ahead of competing fabric technologies today and for the
foreseeable future.
About Mellanox
Mellanox is the leading supplier of InfiniBand semiconductors, providing
switches, Host Channel Adapters, and Target Channel Adapters to the server,
communications and data storage markets. In January 2001, Mellanox
Technologies delivered the InfiniBridge 10Gb/sec InfiniBand device to market,
and is now shipping second-generation InfiniScale and InfiniHost silicon.
The company has raised more than $89 million to date and has strong
corporate
and venture backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Dell Computer, Intel
Capital, Raza Venture Management, Sequoia Capital, Sun Microsystems, US
Venture Partners, Vitesse and others.
Mellanox has been recognized with awards in 2001 and 2002 from
Computerworld,
Network Computing, Red Herring, and Upside magazines as a key emerging
technology company. The company's business operations, sales, marketing and
customer support are headquartered in Santa Clara, CA; with the design,
engineering, software, system validation, and quality and reliability
operations based in Israel.
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