QLogic InfiniBand Adapters and Switches Certified with DataDirect Storage Systems

QLogic Corp. announced certification of its InfiniBand adapters and switches with DataDirect Networks’ Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) native InfiniBand, high-performance storage arrays. DataDirect Networks is a data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, highest performance computing environments and delivers more aggregate throughput to the Top500 Supercomputers than all other vendors combined, powering six of the world’s Top10 and 48 of the Top100. This certification gives customers access to high performance computing (HPC) clusters and storage environments capable of delivering 20Gb InfiniBand cluster-to-storage bandwidth.
 
“Demand for highly scalable, robust and consistent performance on a single system is fueling the adoption of native InfiniBand with many of our HPC customers,” said Dave Fellinger, CTO of DataDirect Networks. “DataDirect Networks’ native InfiniBand storage solutions with QLogic InfiniBand adapters and switches, is a great option for governments and enterprises that have extremely high bandwidth requirements for server-to-server and storage communication. This means users can deploy a cutting-edge, yet proven and stable single-wire solution for their cluster computing and storage needs.”
 
“DataDirect Networks has been a key member of the QLogic HPCtrack Alliance,” said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. “With this certification, HPC customers now have access to end-to-end, native InfiniBand solutions from the server through the fabric to storage.”
 
With more than 160 petabytes installed worldwide, DataDirect Networks’ S2A solutions, combined with QLogic InfiniBand adapters and switches, can help solve today’s most challenging high performance storage requirements, including reducing simulation computational times and checkpoint cycle times, providing cost-effective, high-speed ‘scratch’ storage and capturing and serving massive amounts of digital content. DataDirect Networks’ flagship eighth generation product, the S2A9900, manages 1.2 petabytes in only two floor tiles and delivers sustained throughput of up to six gigabytes per second for both writes and reads, per appliance. In a cluster formation, S2A platforms with QLogic InfiniBand infrastructure can deliver more than 100 gigabytes per second of throughput in leading HPC environments today.