Grid Director™ Switches

Voltaire is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of Grid Director™ switches, in combination with the company’s advanced management software, vastly improves the performance of mission-critical applications. Voltaire Grid Director switches address the growing size and complexity of clusters by providing high interconnect bandwidth, advanced carrier-class management, and unlimited scalability.

Voltaire Grid Director switches address the growing size and complexity of clusters by providing high interconnect bandwidth, advanced carrier-class management, and unlimited scalability.

By combining industry standard InfiniBand technology with integrated Ethernet and Fibre Channel gateways, Voltaire Grid Director switches provide a scalable fabric for powering the world’s largest and fastest high performance computing systems and next generation data centers.

Grid Director Switches Product Comparison

QDR InfiniBand (40 Gb/s)

DDR InfiniBand (20 Gb/s)

Voltaire Server & Storage Switching Solutions

Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption.

Voltaire Grid Director switches come with the industry’s most advanced routing engine and management features. Users can also enhance the performance of the switches with Voltaire Unified Management Software™ (UFM™), which automatically discovers, virtualizes, monitors and optimizes the fabric infrastructure and accelerates the active applications.

Voltaire solutions are used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier organizations across many industries, including many of the TOP500 supercomputers. Combined with integrated Ethernet and Fiber Channel routing capabilities, Voltaire’s director-class switches and advanced management software provide unprecedented levels of performance.

Fabric Management

GridVision Fabric Manager provides a single point of management accessed through an intuitive Java-based GUI or flexible CLI that make finding and replacing failing nodes, viewing the overall health of network resources or tuning fabric parameters for optimal performance easy and intuitive.  With accelerated fabric initialization, advanced fabric routing algorithms, and enterprise class fabric visualization capabilities, GridVision™ Fabric Manager is much more than a simple InfiniBand Subnet Manager (SM). It is a set of advanced tools and utilities that simplifies common tasks related to the configuration, management and monitoring of InfiniBand resources. GridVision is available as an embedded solution on Voltaire Grid Director Switches.

Solving the Challenges of Today’s Data Centers

• Eliminate Bottlenecks – With the trend of multi-socket, multi-core environments, server I/O is a major bottleneck. Voltaire switches eliminate the imbalance by providing servers with up to a 40 Gb/s InfiniBand fabric with application latencies as low as 100 nanoseconds. Voltaire’s integrated Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity lets you share the power of InfiniBand with your data center LAN and SAN networks to improve the performance of existing network infrastructure.
• Reduce Complexity – Managing separate networks for storage, IPC and LAN based traffic is expensive and complicated. Voltaire solutions reduce complexity by providing seamless connectivity between InfiniBand, Ethernet and Fibre Channel based networks. You no longer need 3 separate network technologies with multiple network adapters to operate your data center fabric which greatly simplifies the requirements on server hardware.
• Improve Efficiency – Voltaire solutions accelerate application performance and enable scalability into the thousands of nodes. Moreover, with high bandwidths, low latencies and error-free data delivery, application performance won’t be hurt by packet retransmissions of lost information.
• Reduce Environmental Costs– Improved application efficiency along with the need for fewer network adapters allows you to accomplish the same amount of work using fewer more cost-effective servers. With improved cooling mechanisms comes reduced power consumption and heat generation allowing data centers to reduce the costs associated with physical space, power and cooling.