Opening the pipe to faster research, discovery, and resource sharing

Scientific computing, computational chemistry, systems biology and chemical mixing and analysis are among the key areas of research and development that encompass the life sciences industry. IT managers in these disciplines share the similar desire to increase the speed of their applications, widen the pipe for storage solutions to alleviate bottlenecks developed when data is constantly pulled from and written to storage and have the ability to modify and move resources on the fly - all in a cost effective manner.

To improve the speed of life sciences applications, engineers need to turn their attention to the hardware clusters that run the applications. Server CPU-technology has kept-up, but where many engineers tend to run into computational delays is in the interconnect they deploy to transport information between the servers. This is exactly where Voltaire solutions provide the answer.

The Voltaire Solution

Voltaire solutions for life sciences offer many compelling benefits:

• High Bandwidth
  Voltaire solutions provide bandwidth of 10-30 Gbps to allow for faster and more frequent analysis by applications.
  
• Low Latency
  Voltaire solutions provide latency as low as 1.3 microseconds. Moreover, Voltaire's InfiniBand-based solutions leverage Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with CPU and OS bypass-technologies that greatly reduce memory-copy overheads and associated CPU utilization.
  
• Standards-Based
  Voltaire solutions are based on InfiniBand: the only industry-standard, high-performance interconnect.
  
• Flexibility
  Grids and clusters that use Voltaire solutions can be built as a fully non-blocking 20 Gbps fabric or as a lower-bandwidth fabric based on the needs of the application. Moreover, Voltaire switches are upgradeable in a non-disruptive, hot-pluggable manner.
  
• Fast I/O for Storage
  Voltaire solutions enable parallel file systems over InfiniBand, which offers far-greater performance and scalability than NFS solutions.