Press Releases
2002
FORCE10 NETWORKS LANDS THIRD TERAGRID CUSTOMER:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
E-Series Connects Caltech to the TeraGrid, World's Largest Grid Computing Network
MILPITAS, Calif., November 12, 2002 — Force10 Networks Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, today announced that the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) of Pasadena, CA, is using the Force10 E-Series™ the most scalable and highest performing Ethernet switch/routers in the industry, in its grid computing network. The E-Series is connecting the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) to the TeraGrid project, the world’s largest supercomputing grid, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Force10 has already won business with the National Center For Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC).
Research groups such as Caltech’s CACR are driving the creation of cluster grid computing, the next IT revolution. Ultimately, computational grids will allow users to access enormous ‘virtual supercomputers’ – computers at different locations linked together to work as one – that will provide CPU cycles on demand. The NSF TeraGrid project will initially use a dedicated 40Gbps wide area “backplane” to connect computers, storage facilities, visualization systems and applications at Caltech and other TeraGrid sites to create the largest, most comprehensive grid computing environment for open scientific research in the United States. Clusters connected over this grid are being built using 10GE interconnections between Gigabit Ethernet-attached Linux server clusters. The E-Series has the density and non-blocking performance needed to interconnect thousands of servers, and the L3 robustness to provide scalable, controlled access to them.
“The E-Series was chosen because it provides full 10 Gigabit performance on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports,” said James C.T. Pool, CACR’s executive director. “The E-Series allows us to aggregate all of our Gigabit Ethernet-attached Linux systems.”
About CACR
For almost two decades, the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) and its predecessors at the California Institute of Technology have provided leading-edge capabilities for computational science and engineering research collaborations and experimented with new technologies to help define the technical computing environment of the future. In recent years CACR has focused on the convergence of data intensive applications with numerically intensive computing and the associated storage, networking, and visualization challenges. For more information, see www.cacr.caltech.edu.
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks develops high-performance data center solutions powered by the industry’s most innovative line of open, standards-based, networking hardware and software. The company’s Open Cloud Networking framework grants Web 2.0/portal operators, cloud and hosting providers, enterprise and special-purpose data center customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation—fundamentally changing the economics of data center networking. Force10 Networks operates globally, providing 24x7 service and support to its customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.force10networks.com.
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