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SGI, a Silicon Valley maker of high-performance IT gear, said its one-cabinet "hybrid computing" platform was designed to address the needs of science and engineering customers that depend on high-end software that requires a lot of processing power. Its GPU processing is done by NVIDIA, ATI (subsidiary of AMD) and Tilera products. The company plans to show the technology to the world by the end of the year.
The platform uses open software architecture and can scale from tens of petaflops to hundreds of petaflops, according to the vendor's news release.
SGI also announced first shipments of its Altix UV 1000 supercomputers. First customers to deploy the system ÔÇô capable of scaling up to 2,048 cores and supporting up to 16 terabutes of shared memory in a single system image ÔÇô included Pittsburg Supercomputing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Leibniz Supercomputing Center and University of Cambridge, among others.
The x86 system is based on Intel Xeon series 7500 processors and supports Novell, SUSE or Red Hat Linux operating systems.
Another product that has yet to be released is a joint offering by Green Data Solutions and Interface Masters. The latter company's data center networking gear, including switching, load balancing and failover products, will soon be shipping in the containerized one-rack box from Elliptical Mobile Solutions, with whom GDS has a re-seller deal.
Interface Masters Sales and Marketing Manager Aaron Nankin said the product was still in preliminary stages and this was a new partnership for the company. The box will include Interface Masters' 10Gb switches, 10Gb Ethernet hardware load balancers, 1Gb Ethernet external active bypass switches and TAP systems for link aggregation.
EMS makes a number of different versions of its mini data center container, some of which are armored and self-propelled. The enclosures include closed-loop cooling technology and power-infrastructure elements.
In another networking announcement at ISC, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Luxtera announced new optical technology that will have the ability to support 100Gbps interconnects in data centers. The company's optical modulators currently support 30Gbps serial data rates, the capability Luxtera demonstrated at the show which it says is a key step to enabling four-lane parallel 100Gbps interconnects.
The transmitters are based on Silicon CMOS Photonics technology. According to a Luxtera news release, traditional optical components have trouble reaching required modulation bandwidth and face other problems when pushed to high speeds of 30Gbps and faster. The Silicon CMOS Photonics technology enables the product to avoid these performance restrictions.
SGI, a Silicon Valley maker of high-performance IT gear, said its one-cabinet "hybrid computing" platform was designed to address the needs of science and engineering customers that depend on high-end software that requires a lot of processing power. Its GPU processing is done by NVIDIA, ATI (subsidiary of AMD) and Tilera products. The company plans to show the technology to the world by the end of the year.
The platform uses open software architecture and can scale from tens of petaflops to hundreds of petaflops, according to the vendor's news release.
SGI also announced first shipments of its Altix UV 1000 supercomputers. First customers to deploy the system ÔÇô capable of scaling up to 2,048 cores and supporting up to 16 terabutes of shared memory in a single system image ÔÇô included Pittsburg Supercomputing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Leibniz Supercomputing Center and University of Cambridge, among others.
The x86 system is based on Intel Xeon series 7500 processors and supports Novell, SUSE or Red Hat Linux operating systems.
Another product that has yet to be released is a joint offering by Green Data Solutions and Interface Masters. The latter company's data center networking gear, including switching, load balancing and failover products, will soon be shipping in the containerized one-rack box from Elliptical Mobile Solutions, with whom GDS has a re-seller deal.
Interface Masters Sales and Marketing Manager Aaron Nankin said the product was still in preliminary stages and this was a new partnership for the company. The box will include Interface Masters' 10Gb switches, 10Gb Ethernet hardware load balancers, 1Gb Ethernet external active bypass switches and TAP systems for link aggregation.
EMS makes a number of different versions of its mini data center container, some of which are armored and self-propelled. The enclosures include closed-loop cooling technology and power-infrastructure elements.
In another networking announcement at ISC, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Luxtera announced new optical technology that will have the ability to support 100Gbps interconnects in data centers. The company's optical modulators currently support 30Gbps serial data rates, the capability Luxtera demonstrated at the show which it says is a key step to enabling four-lane parallel 100Gbps interconnects.
The transmitters are based on Silicon CMOS Photonics technology. According to a Luxtera news release, traditional optical components have trouble reaching required modulation bandwidth and face other problems when pushed to high speeds of 30Gbps and faster. The Silicon CMOS Photonics technology enables the product to avoid these performance restrictions.