Systems/Enterprise:
UNIV OF TEXAS SELECTS FORCE10
NETWORKS FOR COMPUTING GRID
Force10 Networks, Inc. announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center
(TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has selected the E-Series
switch/router to provide a next-generation, inter-campus grid computing
infrastructure. The E-Series will initially aggregate Gigabit Ethernet
connections from HPC computing resources located at TACC, and connects at 10-
Gigabit Ethernet speeds across the Greater Austin Area Telecommunications
Network (GAATN) to TACC and UT HPC resources located on the main UT
campus.
"Our goal is to accelerate the collaborative nature of science on grids,"
said
Dr. Jay Boisseau, TACC Director. "We selected the Force10 E-Series for our
multi-campus grid network infrastructure because it delivers the performance
we need today, as well as the density and scalability to support the growth of
our grid in the future."
The University of Texas at Austin is the largest university in the United
States and TACC is building a university-wide UT Grid that will connect a
diverse set of geographically distributed workstations, computational research
clusters, and storage devices to TACC’s high performance computing and
visualization facilities. The initial deployment will integrate TACC systems
with computational resources in the Institute for Computational Engineering &
Sciences (ICES), a new interdisciplinary institute at UT Austin. ICES is
establishing new research programs in distributing and grid computing,
computational biology, and computational materials and will include existing
research UT programs in computational fluid dynamics, subsurface modeling, and
other disciplines.
"The UT Grid offers a glimpse of how computing is changing," said Steve
Mullaney, vice president of marketing at Force10. "Line-rate 10-Gigabit
Ethernet is the enabling technology for computing grids, and we are very
excited to be helping TACC at the University of Texas accelerate their
research in next-generation grid computing systems and applications."
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. For more information, visit
www.force10networks.com.
About the Texas Advanced Computing Center
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is a computational resource
center
at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). TACC provides advanced
computing resources and services to enable computationally-intensive research
by researchers at UT Austin and nationwide through its membership in the
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). TACC’s
staff also conducts research and development activities to enhance the
capabilities of these advanced computing resources. For more information,
visit www.tacc.utexas.edu.
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