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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20
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Systems/Enterprise:
INFINICON ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT
SOLUTIONS FOR ITS CLUSTERS
InfiniCon Systems, a provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for
next-
generation server networks, announced strategic management and networking
additions to its InfinIO product family. Available immediately are InfiniView
Fabric Manager (FM) - a GUI-based management application which can be embedded
into InfiniCon's enterprise-class, InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O & Clustering System
and into its entry-level InfinIO 2000 Switching System; and the InfiniServ
7000 Low Profile HCA - the first dual-port HCA to comply with the PCI-X low-
profile form factor.
In addition, the world-class InfiniView Management System, used for systems
management of the flagship InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O and Clustering System, is
also now supported in the InfinIO 2000 Switching System.
With the enhancements to its award-winning InfinIO line, InfiniCon is
delivering the most complete, feature-rich InfiniBand switching solution - one
that enables IT environments on any scale to quickly deploy and reap the
benefits of affordable, 10 Gbps networking technology.
"InfiniCon Systems' new low profile HCA and fabric manager will help
position
InfiniCon for the next stage of customer deployments of high-performance
computing and database clustering environments," said Jamie Gruener, Senior
Analyst, The Yankee Group. "Customers will be able to take greater advantage
of InfiniCon's advanced shared I/O and switching platform to deploy high-
performance clustering environments."
InfiniView Fabric Manager provides comprehensive control and monitoring of
all
components operating in an InfiniBand fabric through its subnet management
capabilities and associated management functions. It executes and tracks all
essential tasks for optimizing an InfiniBand network, including device
discovery and mapping, path/route management, and performance management. The
InfiniServ 7000 Low Profile HCA, with its small footprint advantage, enables
the widest variety of current and next-generation servers to exploit the high-
bandwidth and low-latency performance advantages of InfiniBand, which has
gained considerable traction as an interconnect for database clustering and
high-performance computing applications.
"By combining enterprise-class hardware and software into one integrated,
easy
to manage solution, InfiniCon lowers the risk and removes any entry barrier
for those end-users who have wanted to embrace InfiniBand's distinct
performance advantages but did not want to deal with being the integrator
between a group of vendors," stated InfiniCon CEO Charles Foley. "The plug-
and-play simplicity of our enhanced InfinIO family reduces the time needed to
deploy and manage an InfiniBand fabric so that users can focus on what matters
most to them - supercharging core business applications and provisioning
server resources to tackle greater and greater computational tasks."
The Foundation for Next-Generation Data Centers
The InfinIO family of products was launched in September 2002 to provide
enterprise data centers with superior levels of I/O performance and a dynamic,
intelligent infrastructure on which to deploy, scale, and manage servers. The
family includes the 60-port InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O and Clustering System,
which supports InfiniBand-based switching and I/O gateways that connect
servers to Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks; the 8-port InfinIO 2000
Switch, an entry-level InfiniBand switch for small to medium clustered server
configurations; and the InfiniServ 7000 Host Channel Adapter, which connects
PCI and PCI-X servers seamlessly to InfiniBand fabrics at 10 Gbps.
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