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AEI CHOOSES Force10 FOR GRID
CLUSTER INTERCONNECT
Force10 Networks Inc announced that the Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational
Physics (Golm and Hannover, Germany), better known as the Albert Einstein
Institute (AEI), has chosen the Force10 E-Series switch/routers as the central
interconnection facility for their new, high-performance computing
cluster.
The E-Series will enable the AEI to build a scalable, high-performance
computing infrastructure needed for computationally intensive research on
Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
"Research on Einstein's general relativity theory requires massive
computing resources," said Edward Seidel, head of the Numerical Relativity
Group at AEI.
"We selected Force10 because its line-rate, high-density Gigabit Ethernet
interconnections meet the requirements of our high-performance computing
grid cluster."
The Albert Einstein Institute specialises in research on black holes,
gravitational waves and other phenomena predicted by Einstein. The AEI, in
cooperation with the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of
Chicago, and Northern Illinois University, received the 2001 Gordon Bell
award for the most innovative supercomputer usage.
As a leading member of the European Commission-funded GridLab project, the
AEI
participates in the development of an easy-to-use, flexible, generic and
modular Grid Application Toolkit, enabling applications to make innovative use
of global computing resources.
"The scalability and versatility of the Force10 E-Series platform allows
the Albert Einstein Institute to grow their computing cluster in the future
without compromising performance," said Steve Mullaney, vice president of
marketing at Force10. "We are excited to be helping the Institute
accelerate their research in numerical relativity and the GridLab
Project."
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is the only provider of next-generation, high-performance
Ethernet switch/routers with true 10-Gigabit Ethernet. The Force10 E-Series
platforms leverage its EtherScale ASIC-based architecture and FTOS
switching/routing software to deliver unmatched scalability, line-rate
performance and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality for
high-performance Ethernet applications.
http://www.force10networks.com
About Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics)
The Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics) in Golm (near Potsdam) and Hannover is an international leading
research centre for gravitational physics. More than 100 scientists and
about 150 visiting scientists per year conduct research into all aspects of
gravitational physics at this institute.
http://www.aei.mpg.de
http://www.gridlab.org
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