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Clemson University Selects Voltaire To Accelerate Computational Research for Transportation Industry
High Performance, Low Latency InfiniBand Fabric Powers Sun HPC System
BILLERICA, Mass. and RA'ANANA, Israel - April 13, 2009 -Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, today announced that the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) has selected Voltaire Grid DirectorTM InfiniBand switches and 10 Gigabit Ethernet gateways for a high performance computing system based on products from Sun Microsystems. CU-CCMS is a new world-class computational center dedicated to the automotive and transportation industries located at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).
The 35 teraflop system provides a massive high performance computing infrastructure to address design, development and research issues for leading automotive and general mobility manufacturers worldwide. Computational simulations that previously required many weeks of processor time are now completed within hours, saving time and costs. In one study with an automotive supplier, CU-CCMS researchers reduced turnaround time for new product simulation by over 80 percent. In another case, prototype development that would have required 12 weeks was replaced with a simulation that requires less than 3 weeks - a 75 percent reduction in the time required from concept to results.
"We are pleased to partner with Voltaire on this innovative facility that marries research with industry and selected them based on their expertise at providing solutions to the research and development organizations at many of the world's leading automotive companies," said James H. Leylek, Ph.D, CU-CCMS executive director. "We're extremely impressed with the quality and performance of the Voltaire switches. They have been an important factor in the success of our mission to serve the automotive, aviation, and energy industries."
The factory-integrated Sun HPC system consists of 43 Sun BladeTM 6000 Modular Systems with Sun Blade X6250 server modules, in addition to Sun FireTM servers, Sun SPARC Enterprise® servers and Sun StorageTekTM systems - all interconnected with a high-performance, low latency 20 Gb/s InfiniBand fabric from Voltaire. Voltaire's Grid DirectorTM 2012 and Grid DirectorTM 9024D switches provide all of the server and external blade connectivity and Voltaire's 10 Gigabit Ethernet gateways provide high-performance connectivity between the server fabric and the storage systems. By seamlessly connecting the servers and storage with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 20 Gb/s InfiniBand throughput, the Voltaire unified fabric accelerates performance of the many CAE applications running on the system.
"We're very pleased to deliver CU-CCMS a solution that provides the performance and scalability that the researchers and businesses need to solve complex design problems," said Cheryl Martin, senior director of HPC marketing, Sun Microsystems. "The Sun Blade system together with Voltaire's 20 Gb/s InfiniBand delivers a powerful, high performance and scalable solution that helps solve the computing challenges faced by major manufacturing companies."
"CU-CCMS gives automotive and transportation manufacturers access to a state-of-the-art computing solution that helps them to reduce design cycle time and product costs, while also providing a place to test new concepts and innovations," said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "Many of the world's most popular automotive brands already use Voltaire InfiniBand as part of their design processes and we are pleased to continue our leadership in this market through this exciting initiative with CU-CCMS."
Solution Showcase at SAE World Congress
Voltaire and CU-CCMS will highlight the computational center's high-performance simulation capabilities in booth 530 at SAE World Congress, April 20-23 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.
About Clemson University
Clemson University, located in Clemson, S.C., is a science- and technology-oriented research university ranked 22 among the nation's top public institutions. Since 2001, Clemson has doubled external research funding, raised the academic profile of the student body, increased retention and graduation rates, launched high-profile economic development initiatives -including the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) -
and has earned national accolades, including being named TIME Magazine's Public College of the Year. For more information about CU-CCMS, please visit: http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/cu-ccms/.
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 cluster and blade server offerings from Bull, HP, IBM, NEC, Rackable, SGI, and Sun and provide the internal server-to-storage connectivity for the HP-Oracle Database Machine. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel and Billerica, Massachusetts. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.
Forward Looking Statements
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