Systems/Enterprise:
DivergeNet & ParTec ANNOUNCE GRID SOLUTION
FOR EUROPE
Companies will co-develop and market MPI
capabilities using InfiniBand
technology.
DivergeNet Inc, a leading
edge provider of total end-to-end InfiniBand
connectivity solutions with its
MeshLinkInfiniBand product line and ParTec AG,
a leading provider of
high-performance grid cluster computing software
solutions and services,
announced a strategic business alliance partnership
establishing a development
cooperation along with a sales and marketing
agreement for the European
market.
The two companies will cooperate on future initiatives in
providing MPI
computing solutions based on the InfiniBand interconnect
technology.
DivergeNet will provide InfiniBand fabric components using
a variety of
MeshLink products including channel adapters, switches as well as
proprietary
SW integrated with ParTec's ParaStation MPI middleware. The
companies also
plan to collaborate on additional marketing programs for
introducing European
customers to the enhanced benefits of cluster computing
using InfiniBand.
"DivergeNet, a complete solution provider for
InfiniBand fabric networks, is
impressed with ParTec's level of commitment in
deploying the InfiniBand
architecture," said Shari Nolan, CEO and founder of
DivergeNet. "This alliance
will open one of the largest markets where
InfiniBand will provide enhanced
capabilities and performance factors above
and beyond existing legacy
interconnects.
"With scheduled deliveries
of products to European customers starting in April
of 2003 we anticipate on
reaching annual revenue rate in excess of $50 million
at the end of the first
year of operations.
"I am confident that the combination of
DivergeNet's MeshLink products with
ParTec's ParaStation application end users
will enjoy a significant benefit
from the overall increase in bandwidth,
reduced latency and scalability as
defined within the InfiniBand architecture.
This inherent capability will
demonstrate InfiniBand's superiority over
existing cluster computing
interconnect technologies."
"DivergeNet has
surpassed our expectations by delivering the market's first
commercially
available InfiniBand solution. The proven performance of
DivergeNet's
InfiniBand technology combined with our ParaStation software, has
presented us
with highly favorable price performance ratios for bringing
InfiniBand to the
European and worldwide markets," said Hugo R. Falter, CEO
and president of
ParTec AG.
"We are very excited to add DivergeNet's innovative and
breakthrough product
line MeshLink to our product and service portfolio to
provide our system
integrators and VARs with a high performance and high
bandwidth interconnect
solutions for supercomputing systems."
"High
performance and high availability clustering is presenting exciting
opportunities for InfiniBand in the marketplace," said Hans-J. Schmidt, senior
vice president of worldwide marketing and America business operations.
"The low latency and high performance seen from ParTec's ParaStation
software
on DivergeNet's InfiniBand solution clearly demonstrates the
potential
performance and bandwidth improvement within high performance
computing. The
ability to deliver InfiniBand based turnkey cluster solutions
combining
ParTec's and DivergeNet's technology, further strengthens our
position in the
high performance cluster market."
DivergeNet's
MeshLink product line will feature 4X channel adapters and
switches along with
a unique implementation of the InfiniBand verbs layer
called IBIS (InfiniBand
Interface Services) providing a publicly available API
for a variety of OS
platforms including Solaris, Linux and Windows.
ParTec's ParaStation
product includes a highly optimized protocol stack
providing applications, an
MPI library for large packet sizes and is available
for all widely used Linux
distributions and kernel versions.
About DivergeNet Inc
DivergeNet, an InfiniBand Trade Association Member, provides channel
adapters
and switches for InfiniBand Architectures. All products include
embedded
management software that allows data center operations, the ability
to quickly
realize the benefits of high integrity data transmission and low
latency via
an InfiniBand fabric.
DivergeNet is focused on providing
high performance, high quality InfiniBand
solutions for server, fabric and
device interconnection in heterogeneous
environments. DivergeNet is a
privately held company in San Jose, employing a
veteran team of data
networking and technology experts with extensive
background in product design,
development and deployment.
About ParTec AG
ParTec is the
leading provider of the market's first fully integrated and
easy-to-use
communication and management software for high performance cluster
computing
systems and solutions.
Its ParaStation software, known for its
unprecedented reliability, easy
serviceability, high performance and
availability while reducing cost and
system complexity at the same time,
enables companies and institutions to
combine the latest high performance
parallel computing systems with existing
and future supercomputing
applications.
ParTec has strategic relationships with industry leaders
such as Fujitsu
Siemens Computers, HP, among others and Value Added Resellers
like Science +
Computing AG for automotive and semiconductor applications and
CAM GmbH for
avonik applications, among others.
Founded in 1999 as a
spin-off from the University of Karlsruhe, ParTec has
headquarters in Munich,
with R&D centers in Karlsruhe and San Jose. ParTec has
worldwide distribution
capabilities through global and local system
integrators, like Emplics AG and
VARs supporting customers in European
countries and the United States.
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