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| Voltaire's InfiniBand Solutions Installed at the Matsuoka GRID Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology<
Voltaire, a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions, today announced that the company has signed an agreement with Professor Matsuoka's GRID computing laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for continued cooperation in the evaluation and deployment of Voltaire's advanced InfiniBand technology and products. Since April 2003, a network of users has been successfully running standard applications and benchmark tests on the 12-node cluster, which is connected by Voltaire's ISR 6000 InfiniBand switch router. Tokyo Institute of Technology operates Japan's largest campus-based GRID cluster. "Since April, our laboratory has been evaluating Voltaire's twelve port InfiniBand switch router and running suites of benchmark tests comparing different types of networking technologies using high-end nodes. Voltaire's InfiniBand products always come out on the winning edge. Our initial results indicate that InfiniBand is the superior technology in application performance, frequently by a factor of two," said Professor Matsuoka, Matsuoka Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. "We have previous experience deploying a number of large-scale, as well as small-scale clusters using other networking technologies, now totaling approximately 1700 processors throughout the campus. Although our current InfiniBand test cluster is small, we are investigating the possible future deployment of InfiniBand on very large clusters in our infrastructure." BizVantage – Like a personalized newsletter for business, investment or technology. "The management features of Voltaire's InfiniBand software are particularly attractive in terms of manageability, network performance, and robustness. These are exactly the kinds of management features that experienced cluster managers will appreciate," continued Matsuoka. "We will continue to cooperate with Voltaire to verify and extend our findings." "Voltaire is honored to participate in recent InfiniBand benchmark testing performed by Professor Matsuoka and is delighted that the prestigious Matsuoka Laboratory of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has again demonstrated its pioneering of new GRID technologies," said Ronnie Kenneth, chairman and CEO, Voltaire, Inc. Dr. Daniel Isenberg, CEO of Triangle Technologies, who is responsible for developing Voltaire's business in Japan, commented, "Japanese researchers and computer manufacturers are among the pioneers in supercomputing and GRID computing technologies. In these communities, we are seeing a growing interest in InfiniBand-powered clusters, and increasing receptivity to Voltaire's complete family of InfiniBand solutions." Voltaire offers a complete family of InfiniBand solutions for HPC applications that balance high-performance hardware with a production-ready, standards-based software stack for HPC clusters and enterprise data centers. The result is unmatched performance within InfiniBand clusters of all sizes and seamless connectivity with the existing infrastructure. For more information on Voltaire's HPC solutions, visit http://www.voltaire.com/sol_hpc.html. The Matsuoka Laboratory maintains a web site reporting their experiences with InfiniBand at http://cluster-team.is.titech.ac.jp. About Tokyo Institute of Technology Founded in 1881, the Tokyo Institute of Technology is internationally renowned for its advancements and contributions to the field of science and technology, producing and employing a great number of leading engineers and professionals in the field. Global Scientific Information and Computing Center is recognized throughout the world for its achievements in designing and testing high speed, ultra reliable High Performance Computing architectures. About Voltaire Voltaire is a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions for enterprise data centers and HPC environments. Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage. For HPC customers, Voltaire leads the industry with the largest InfiniBand Trade Association-certified switch to support clusters scaling from hundreds to thousands of nodes. With business headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts, Voltaire is certified by the IBTA's Integrator's List. Voltaire's distributors in Japan include Hitachi High Technologies (www.hitachi-hitec.com), Hitachi Information Technology http://www.hitachi-it.co.jp, and BestSystems (www.bestsystems.co.jp). More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. About Triangle Technologies Triangle Technologies specializes in assisting foreign technology companies penetrate the Japanese market, and has concluded over 100 signed agreements between Japanese and non-Japanese companies. Founded in 1990 by Dr. Daniel Isenberg, formerly assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, Triangle Technologies has successfully formed numerous strategic alliances in Japan, including distribution and sales, OEM agreements, joint development, technology licensing, investments, and joint ventures. www.triangletech.com Contacts: Christy Lynch Voltaire, Inc. (781) 276-1571 Dr. Daniel Isenberg CEO, Triangle Technologies Ltd. +81 (3) 52158760 dani@voltaire.com
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