Voltaire Introduces A Breakthrough Solution to Accelerate Distributed Applications by Orders of Magnitude
11 March 2010 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Continuing on the path of innovation for scale-out data center
fabrics, Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT) today announced a
ground-breaking new software and hardware solution that accelerates
distributed application group communications in scale-out fabrics.
Group communications challenges are common in cloud computing and
high performance computing and addressing them is key to scaling
out the data center. The first edition of Voltaire FCA™ accelerates
high performance computing applications such as reservoir modeling,
fluid dynamics, crash analysis and others by up to a factor of
ten.
Voltaire’s patent pending Fabric Collective Accelerator™ (FCA™)
accelerates MPI collective operations by using Voltaire switches
and their on-board processors to offload significant parts of group
communication onto the switching fabric while Voltaire Unified
Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) orchestrates an efficient, topology-based
collective flow. Working in concert, these products ensure that all
bottlenecks are removed, at both the server and interconnect
levels. The computational acceleration is achieved transparently
without requiring changes to the application.
“With Voltaire FCA, the IMB Allreduce & Barrier benchmarks
ran seven times faster on a 512 core portion of our Intel Xeon
E5520 based cluster,” said Niclas Andersson, technical director at
the National Supercomputer Center in Sweden. “We are extremely
proud to be the first customer to run Voltaire FCA in a large
environment, and expect it to help us increase the efficiency and
productivity of our research clusters by orders of magnitude.”
“With their global, synchronous nature, collective operations
often become the bottleneck when scaling MPI-based parallel
applications to thousands of computers, and have been known to have
a significant impact on the scalability of some applications with
standards-based clusters,” said Earl Joseph, program vice
president, IDC. “Voltaire’s FCA provides an innovative way to help
remove the congestion created by collective operations in HPC and
is also applicable to other distributed computing frameworks such
as MapReduce in cloud computing.”
Until now, typical solutions for accelerating collectives over
standards-based clusters were based on host-based offload,
addressing only a small part of the challenge residing at the
server level. The Voltaire fabric-wide solution leverages
Voltaire’s unique switch design, which incorporates a CPU on every
module, eliminating congestion and reducing latency throughout the
fabric.
“This is the industry’s first fully integrated solution to
offload collective operations across the full fabric topology,”
said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “Using the
Voltaire FCA software combined with the intelligence on the switch,
dramatically accelerates the collectives process, so customers can
boost application performance by orders of magnitude.”
Voltaire FCA works with Voltaire’s complete portfolio of 40 Gb/s
InfiniBand switches and will be available in early Q2 2010.
Introducing the Grid Director™ 4200
Voltaire also today introduced a mid-size 40 Gb/s InfiniBand
director switch expanding its full line of 40 Gb/s platforms. The
Voltaire Grid Director 4200 is a high performance, ultra-low
latency InfiniBand switch that is ideal for high performance
clusters running scientific, commercial HPC and enterprise
applications. With configurations of up to 162 ports of 40 Gb/s per
port InfiniBand connectivity, the Grid Director 4200 delivers 11.52
Tb/s of bandwidth and between 100 and 300 nanoseconds of
port-to-port latency.
As a mid-size 40 Gb/s switching solution, the Grid Director 4200
is designed to provide an excellent price-performance ratio for
mid-size clusters, along with the reliability and manageability
expected from a director-class switch.
The Grid Director 4200 will be available at the end of March,
2010.
About Voltaire
Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading provider of scale-out
computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and
cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric
switches and advanced management software improve performance of
mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs
through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption.
Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier
organizations across many industries, including many of the TOP500
supercomputers, Voltaire products are included in server and blade
offerings from Bull, HP, IBM, NEC, SGI and Sun. Founded in 1997,
Voltaire is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and Chelmsford,
Massachusetts. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or
by calling 1-800-865-8247.
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