QLogic Leads HPC Networking Industry With Over 40,000 DDR InfiniBand Switch Ports Shipped;  Company Showcasing Its End-To-End Portfolio of Double Data Rate InfiniBand Products
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DRESDEN, Germany, June 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- International Supercomputing Conference -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing, announced it is leading the industry by passing the 40,000 mark for DDR InfiniBand ports shipped.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design innovation, today announced the availability of the Cadence(R) Allegro(R) Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) design-in IP portfolio.
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OCTOBER 18, 2004  - IBM last week completed its lineup of servers based on its Power5 chips by adding high-end pSeries and iSeries models that can support up to 64 processors, double the previous threshold for CPUs.
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Hewlett-Packard's Integrity rx4640 server is available with Intel's new Itanium 2 processor, which has 9MB of high-speed cache memory.
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The highest-end of the three new offerings, the p5 560Q, includes IBM's Advanced Power Virtualization, which runs multiple partitions per processor and allows customers to consolidate 320 x86 machines onto one rack.
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The Xeon 5355, which packages up two dual-core chips, is being shipped ahead of schedule.
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Storage powerhouses Hewlett-Packard Co. and QLogic Corp. have created an easy-to-use SAN-in-a-box product targeted at small and midsize businesses.
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The grid is made up of over 6,000 machines, with over 1,000 in the UK alone, in 78 countries as part of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) - the world&#39;s largest and first permanent grid, destined to carry out research into particle physics.
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Broadcom today unveiled two wireless Lan chipsets which it claims allow Wi-Fi users to maintain high speed wireless connections at distances up to 50 per cent greater than previous offerings.
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(InfoWorld) - Azul Systems Inc. is doubling the capacity of its "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore processors and is a departure from the typical server-based approach to large scale computing. Azul Thursday is scheduled to launch two new models of its Vega 2 computing appliances that feature up to 16 chips with a total 768 cores for running Java software applications. Rather than add more servers with dual- or quad-core chips as computing needs grow, Azul describes its product as a pool of processing power that applications can dip into as needed. The company calls it "network-attached processing," because of its similarity to network-attached storage. Besides the Vega 2 7280, Azul is also launching the model 7240 with eight chips and a total 384 cores. This follows the December 2006 launch of the Vega 2 3210 with two chips and 96 cores and the 3220 with 4 chips and 192 cores. Network-attached processing is more energy-efficient than the multiple servers that would be needed to deliver the same performance, said Stephen DeWitt, CEO of the 5-year-old firm. He compares the concept to that of an electric utility. "Imagine, if you will, in New York City trying to power every light, toaster or refrigerator with a battery. It's incredibly inefficient. Instead, what everyone does is tap into a big [electrical] grid," De Witt said. In an Azul system, one server could be loaded with multiple Java applications and would connect to the appliance to do the processing. Azul is taking a contrarian approach to delivering processing power, said Cal Braunstein, CEO of the research firm Robert Frances Group. Azul processors act as attached processors to the server and only handle the Java code, Braunstein explained, which allows the server processors to perform more work by shifting the Java execution to the Azul appliance. Although Azul's approach shares similarities with IBM Corp. mainframe computers, there are also important differences. "Azul's model is unique," Braunstein said in an e-mail interview. "I am not aware of any other companies pursuing this particular model." But since Azul is new and small, big companies that could use it may be reluctant to buy technology they're not familiar with, he said. An Azul Vega 2 is running part of the network at Pegasus Solutions Inc., a company that provides the back-end technology for making hotel reservations through online travel sites, hotels and travel agencies. The Azul system easily handles the workload of nine servers, said Steve Lapekas, chief technology officer for Pegasus. "I can't get the box to sweat," Lapekas said. Pegasus limits its use of Azul to a portion of its data center, though he said it may expand its use elsewhere. DeWitt and the founders of Azul started the company after leaving Sun Microsystems Inc. The two companies are embroiled in a patent dispute dating back to March 2006 in which Sun accuses Azul executives of taking Sun's patented technology with them to start Azul. A lawsuit is still pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, DeWitt said. Â
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Last Month saw IBM launch a range of very high performance, very cost effective Unix servers with the release of its latest pSeries machines.
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According to a Samsung release, the device is the most advanced graphics double-data-rate synchronous DRAM available for graphics card makers, as well as game console manufacturers.
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Broadcom said its new chips will operate at the highest transmission rate possible for a longer time than currently available chips, which are quicker to shift to lower data rates in order to maintain clear transmissions.
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Company looks to leap past current limit of eight Opteron processors in a single server.
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Figures from ZDNet Germany labs show AMD's fastest chips outpacing its rival's for mainstream applications.
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Defender of the Universe? Infiniband specialist Voltaire is playing the green card to hawk its new 20Gb/s director-class switch for high-performance grid computing.â¦
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HP (www.hp.com) announced an investment of more than $3 billion over the next three years designed to vault Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers to the leadership position in the $20 billion market currently served by RISC processors.