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SeaFire PRESENTS ULTRA HIGH-SPEED OFFLOAD ENGINE AT FERMI

SeaFire has unveiled their Phase I development plans for an ultra high-speed offload engine system, to be used for Grid computing applications. The presentation was made on Sept. 16 to the United States Department of Energy (USDOE), at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

The Sea Fire Engine architecture under development addresses the issue of system delays within and between clusters, as greater network speeds load down computation node processor performance. As host data bandwidth reaches or exceeds 10 Gigabits per second, the software, hardware and protocol designs change when compared to present TOE and R-NIC solutions within industry.

SeaFire, based in Beverly, Mass., has kept the Sea Fire Engine project in stealth mode, since its inception in late 2002. In 2003, SeaFire and its subcontractors simulated and tested the Alpha-stage firmware and hardware within Gigabit Ethernet and Wide Area Network environments. To date, SeaFire has been awarded two USDOE grants for developing system scalability first through 1-10 Gb per second and now through 40 Gb per second. The corporation continues to focus on both commercial and government sector applications for its Grid computing product, for use in WAN, blade servers, storage area networks and communications systems, as communication speeds exceed 10-40 Gb per second.