Breaking News - Networking:
Ammasso Announces 20 Percent Improvement With Ammasso 1100
Ammasso Inc announced the Ammasso 1100 version 1.1, the world's first high
performance, low latency RDMA-enabled Ethernet adapter. Version 1.1 offers a
20 percent performance increase, support for a wider range of operating
systems and platforms, and enhanced remote management capabilities.
Available since June, the Ammasso 1100 has been shipped to over 50
organizations, including major universities, government research sites and
large commercial enterprises.
"The Ammasso 1100 is the only Gigabit Ethernet adapter available today
delivering the benefits of RDMA to high performance computing environments,"
said Larry Genovesi, CEO of Ammasso. "By leveraging our experience in the
marketplace, we were able to enhance the Ammasso 1100 based on real world
feedback, and deliver significant performance improvements for our customers."
"We see great market potential for this product," said Lalit Jain, CEO of
Angstrom Microsystems. "Our customers are looking for a high performance
Ethernet solution to enable them to leverage the power of our Titan64 Opteron
4-way and 2-way blade clusters."
With the Ammasso 1100, customers can leverage existing Ethernet
infrastructures by taking advantage of switches, cables, and trained personnel
already in place. The Ammasso 1100 increases performance of application-to-
application data transfers by lowering message latency, offloading the host
CPU, and leveraging RDMA technologies. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a
set of technologies that enable the movement of data from the memory of one
server directly into the memory of another without involving either operating
system, thus reducing CPU usage and increasing performance.
Release 1.1 includes a number of new enhancements to the Ammasso 1100,
including:
- Enhanced Performance -- The Ammasso 1100 version 1.1 provides a 20 percent
performance increase versus release 1.0, meeting the needs of the even the
most demanding applications.
- Support for the AMD Opteron -- With Release 1.1, the Ammasso 1100 now
supports the AMD Opteron environment for both 32 and 64 bit applications.
- Expanded Operating Systems Support -- The Ammasso 1100 now supports a
number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 WS/ES/AS, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8, and SUSE Professional 9.0.
- PXE Boot -- Users are now able to deploy and manage large clusters by
enabling remote booting and building of system images.
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