Manufacturing

Bringing New Levels of Performance to CAE and EDA

The key to efficient Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Electronic Data Applications (EDA) is finding a way to run tests and conduct analysis faster. Advances in software and server hardware have set the stage for faster computing, but manufacturers now need to improve upon one last bottleneck: the switch interconnects between servers. To dramatically improve the speed of data across and within their server clusters, manufacturing firms are turning to Voltaire's InfiniBand-based solutions.

The Voltaire Solution

Voltaire offers two core solutions for manufacturing companies. They can be used together or on a stand-alone basis to provide a powerful platform to address the benefits that can be obtained by speeding-up CAE and EDA:

• High-speed, low latency inter-processor communication
• Fast I/O with Storage

Voltaire's InfiniBand-based solutions help software applications run faster simulations and product-design analysis. Voltaire offers the high-performance (10-30 Gbps), low-latency computing that CAE and EDA need in order to run faster in a shorter period of time; Benchmark testing has found that Voltaire interconnect solutions reduce CAE and EDA runtime by as much as 50 percent. Voltaire solutions also enable parallel file systems over InfiniBand, which offers far-greater performance and scalability than NFS solutions.

Voltaire has worked for many years with CAE and EDA software-vendors to create the most efficient, fastest, and lowest-latency solutions in the industry. By combining the leading CAE and EDA software with Voltaire's family of products, manufacturing organizations can now analyze products faster and more efficiently to gain a clear competitive advantage.