Voltaire®

As we look towards designing supercomputers exceeding 10K servers, large port count high bandwidth and low latency scalable switches, all with extremely low BERs, are a key to our future success. Voltaire’s 36 port QDR edge switch offering has shown promising results and has boosted our confidence in designing our next-generation system around the Grid Director 4700.

EKA Network Architect
Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), A wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Ltd. located in Pune, India

We’ve already deployed Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s InfiniBand edge switch and are experiencing improved application performance for our Applications Research and Development cluster, which translates into solving more complex problems in less time. A high-port count switch leveraging 40 Gb/s InfiniBand such as the Grid Director 4700 will give us increased bandwidth and throughput to capitalize on the processing power of multi-core servers and scale up to thousands of nodes.

Goldi Misra, Head, High Performance Computing Solutions Group
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) located in Pune, India

Large fabrics bring a tremendous amount of complexity. Management software that automatically discovers, virtualizes, monitors and optimizes the fabric infrastructure as well as accelerates active applications is a valuable asset to our clusters that scale into the hundreds of nodes. Having a centralized view across all of the infrastructure gives us more control over our large-scale environments.

Professor Rudolf Lohner
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)