HPC, Cloud and Web 2.0 Businesses To Benefit from InfiniBand Performance and Scalability in New HP Solution that Promises New Efficiencies for Scale-Out Data Centers

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced that its 40 Gb/s InfiniBand solutions are available for HP ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System, part of the new HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio introduced this month. The solution is ideal for scale-out data centers that enable high performance computing (HPC) — as well as cloud-based services and Web 2.0 businesses.

The powerful combination of Voltaire’s software and InfiniBand switching capabilities bring high-performance, low latency and extreme scalability to HP’s newest server offering, which is optimized for scale-out customers to greatly reduce costs, maximize power efficiency and maintain flexibility. In addition to blazing performance, Voltaire’s 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switches require less than 6-watts-per-port power consumption, which helps maximize the overall solution’s high density per watt.

“The HP ExSO portfolio addresses the extreme scale-out needs of customers using HPC applications as well as in cloud and Web 2.0 businesses to help them compete more effectively on a global scale by lowering cost, increasing efficiency and accelerating time to market. This makes Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand the perfect high performance, scale-out fabric to complement the solution,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand is based on industry-standard technologies to deliver the performance, scalability and energy efficiency requirements of high-performance next generation data centers.”

This new solution for scale-out, high-performance computing customers from HP combines Voltaire’s Grid Director™ 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switches with the HP ProLiant SL6000 server family, which uses an ultra-efficient, modular “skinless” systems architecture that replaces the traditional chassis and rack form factors with an extremely lightweight rail and tray design, enabling customers to quickly and easily build solutions that meet extreme scale-out workload requirements. The solution uses Voltaire OFED software to enable applications to utilize the exceptional performance of RDMA that is inherent in InfiniBand hardware.