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JNI ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF MPI/PRO
ON INFINISTAR HCAS FOR GRIDS
JNI HCAs Running MPI/Pro Provide Significant Performance Improvements for
Linux-Based HPC Server Grid Cluster Environments
JNI Corporation announced that MPI Software Technology Inc, a leading
provider
of middleware products for high-performance computing (HPC) environments, will
support MPI/Pro, its Message Passing Interface (MPI) software, on JNI's
InfiniStar dual-port 10 gigabit per second (Gb/sec) PCI-X to InfiniBand host
channel adapter (HCA) modules.
With MPI/Pro, JNI's HCAs deliver up to three times the bandwidth of
proprietary interconnects used in Linux-based HPC server cluster environments,
and up to eight times the bandwidth of gigabit Ethernet. JNI's InfiniStar line
of HCAs will be featured in demos at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo,
January 22-24 in New York, N.Y. (JNI Booth #410).
"As the leading supplier of InfiniBand HCAs, JNI is committed to providing
InfiniBand technology for use in several market segments, particularly the
enterprise database and HPC markets," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of IOS
Business Development for JNI Corporation. "By porting its MPI/Pro software to
our InfiniBand HCAs, MSTI gives us the ability to offer significant bandwidth
advantages to Linux-based HPC server cluster environments, an important early
adopter market for InfiniBand technology."
"MSTI is pleased to support JNI's InfiniBand HCAs," said Dr. Anthony
Skjellum,
CTO of MSTI. "Working closely with an InfiniBand leader such as JNI provides
us with an opportunity to expand the market for MPI/Pro as the technology
becomes established as a high-performance interconnect for HPC clusters."
Benefits of InfiniBand
InfiniBand is an open standard supported by more than 100 leading companies
via the IBTA (Infiniband Trade Association). An important feature of
InfiniBand is the ability to implement Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
technology. RDMA allows server-to-server and server-to-storage data transfers
to occur with minimal interruptions to the host system. InfiniBand's high
performance and low latency has made it the choice of major OEM systems
providers for next-generation servers. All InfiniBand HCA modules support RDMA
in hardware, so server networks are no longer constrained by I/O processing
overhead and bandwidth limitations. As a result, high performance server
networks that use dense, low-cost rack systems and blades have become
attractive alternatives for many applications.
About MPI/Pro
MPI/Pro provides high-performance message passing middleware for parallel
computing supporting InfiniBand. The software improves performance of clusters
running applications such as CFD simulation, weather modeling, financial
modeling, seismic exploration, and protein folding. MPI/Pro for InfiniBand
delivers supercomputing performance, robustness, and standards compliance.
MPI/Pro currently supports the MPI-1.2 standard.
About the IBX-4x02m-C
JNI's IBX-4x02m HCA module is a dual port PCI-X-to-InfiniBand channel
adapter
based on second-generation InfiniHost MT23108 silicon from Mellanox
Technologies. It is capable of delivering performance of up to 20 Gb/sec, and
can achieve the maximum throughput available in today's x86 servers by using
high performance 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X bus slots. Each new InfiniStar HCA
module supports the high bandwidth, low latency computing performance
necessary to launch the next generation of database, storage clustering, and
server clustering applications. The IBX-4x02m HCA module operates at
InfiniBand 4x speeds, four times the performance of first-generation
InfiniBand HCA modules.
About JNI Corporation
JNI is a provider of storage networking products. JNI's products run on a
variety of operating platforms including Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT,
Linux, HP-UX and AIX. JNI customers, distributors, and strategic partners
include: Acal FCS, Bell Microproducts, Brocade, Chaparral, Cisco Systems,
Consan, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, InfiniSwitch, Info X,
LSI Logic, McDATA, Mellanox Technologies, Network Appliance, Nishan Systems,
StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, TidalWire and Veritas. JNI's headquarters are
located in San Diego.
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