GridStack™ Server Software

Voltaire’s server products provide connectivity to high performance InfiniBand-based grids and clusters, storage and networking devices. Voltaire provides server software solutions for many applications including:

• High performance computing
• Clustered databases
• Server virtualization
• Low latency messaging
• Database

Accelerating Application Performance

Voltaire’s products are widely deployed for these application environments and have been fully tested and integrated with our ISV partners. For example, for clustered databases, Voltaire’s solutions have been tested and integrated with Oracle 10g and IBM’s DB2. For HPC CAE applications, Voltaire server solutions have been tested and integrated with a variety of ISV applications.

Based on RDMA architecture, Voltaire server solutions provide high performance connectivity for InfiniBand clusters and grids. Voltaire server solutions support a variety of operating systems—both Intel and AMD architectures—in both 32 bit and 64 bit mode. Without requiring any changes to the applications or the infrastructure, Voltaire server solutions offer 3 times the performance of competitive technologies, from expensive proprietary technologies all the way down to Gigabit Ethernet.

Voltaire server solutions provide an integrated interconnect for all traffic types including inter-processor communications, storage and networking. Using one high performance interconnect link for all traffic reduces the infrastructure complexity and the TCO of the total solution. Both the hardware and software is architected to provide multi-service support such that multiple applications and network traffic can share the same hardware and software.

Voltaire server solutions are comprised of 2 main components.

• Host Drivers for Linux and Windows based on the OFED and WinOF open source projects
• Voltaire Messaging Accelerator for accelerating multi-cast based applications in Financial Services and other high performance messaging environments

Voltaire’s InfiniBand software stack provides drivers for Linux and Microsoft Windows that includes a suite of high performance upper layer protocols (SDP, uDAPL, IPoIB, iSCSI RDMA and MPI) that are ideal for HPC clusters and data center applications including IBM DB2 and Oracle Database 10g.