Voltaire provides grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. The company focuses on improving data center efficiency by enabling grid computing deployments on commodity server and storage offerings. Voltaire's fully integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the highest performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks.

Voltaire solutions are used for high performance computing (HPC) applications and grid computing environments in enterprise data centers and by government and research institutions.

Product Offerings

Voltaire's product offerings include host communications adapters (and standards based driver software), director-class multi-service switches, integrated Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and network virtualization software that provides the high performance, network "backbone" for grid computing architectures.

Voltaire's grid backbone switching solutions enable grid computing because the InfiniBand architecture defines a network for interconnecting processing systems, storage I/O and network I/O (IP) into a single easy-to-manage environment. Moreover, Voltaire solutions offer built-in intelligence (layer 2-7) that enables virtualization of multiple networks for resource allocation, provisioning and virtualization.

Voltaire offers the industry's highest performing (12 Tb) multi-service switch with InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel integrated into a single chassis that enables the largest clusters and grids. More than 50% of the worlds most powerful supercomputers that use InfiniBand as an interconnect have partnered with Voltaire to implement the solution (based on the November, 2005 Top 500 - www.top500.org).

Partners

Voltaire has signed agreements with major tier-one server solutions companies such as IBM, HP and SGI, and has joint, worldwide sales relationships with Sun, and NEC. Voltaire has also established relationships with over 30 resellers and integrators worldwide which provide a supplemental route to market for product sales and support.