Voltaire® Grid Director™ 4200
Features & Benefits
- Removes I/O bottlenecks for extreme application performance
- Unlimited scalability across application, database and storage servers
- Ideal for scientific, commercial HPC and enterprise applications
- Ultra-low latency: between 100 and 300 nanoseconds port-to-port
- 162 x 40 Gb/s InfiniBand ports (QDR)
- Available bandwidth: up to 11.52 Tb/s
- Simple and fast device management
- Fully managed by Voltaire Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) software
- Support for longer and more varied cable options
- Fast fabric bring-up and advanced routing algorithms
- Advanced congestion management
- Zero downtime guaranteed with no single point of failure and real-time fault notifications
QDR (40 Gb/s) Performance for Mid-Size Clusters
The Voltaire Grid Director 4200 is a high performance, ultra-low latency InfiniBand switch for mid-size clusters. With configurations of up to 162 ports of 40 Gb/s per port InfiniBand connectivity, the Voltaire Grid Director 4200 delivers 11.52 Tb/s of bandwidth and between 100 and 300 nanoseconds of port-to-port latency.
As a result, I/O bottlenecks are removed, allowing applications to operate at maximum efficiency. As a mid-size 40 Gb/s switching solution, the Grid Director 4200 is designed to provide an excellent price-performance ratio for mid-size clusters, along with the reliability and manageability expected from a director-class switch.
Smart Switches for Next Generation Data Centers
Voltaire’s fourth generation InfiniBand switches are equipped with a variety of capabilities that maximize performance as well as efficiency:
Advanced port and signal optimization: Voltaire’s smart switch design leverages advances in cabling technology in concert with the Grid Director 4200’s advanced port and signal optimization capabilities in order to determine the optimal settings for the connected QSFP cable.
On-board device and fabric management: The Voltaire Grid Director 4200 on-board device and fabric management provides a simple interface for deploying, troubleshooting, maintaining and upgrading the switch.
Advanced routing engine: The Grid Director 4200 works with Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) software, which automatically discovers, virtualizes, monitors and optimizes the fabric infrastructure and accelerates the active applications.
Fabric optimization: To promote ultimate and flawless bandwidth and latency, Voltaire fabric optimization includes application-based QoS and isolation, advanced congestion management capabilities, and traffic aware routing to prevent degraded application performance.
Building Efficient Clusters & Grids
The Voltaire Grid Director 4200 is the industry’s most cost-effective building block for deploying high performance clusters and data centers. Whether looking at price-to-performance or energy-to-performance, the Grid Director 4200 reaches new levels of achievement.
Voltaire’s InfiniBand solutions have been at the top of both the TOP500 (www.top500.org) list of fastest supercomputers in the world and the Green500 (www.green500.org) list of “greenest” supercomputers for years, indicating recognized leadership in both performance and efficiency. The design of the Grid Director 4200 ensures that this leadership will be maintained in the QDR era.
Also available is the Grid Director 4700, a director-class switch that features 324 ports of 40 Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity in a 19U chassis, and the Grid Director™ 4036, which offers 36 QDR InfiniBand ports in a 1U switch.
