Press Releases
2003
AIST IN JAPAN DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS
Largest Public Research Organization in Japan Uses Force10 for Computing Cluster
MILPITAS, Calif., March 3, 2003 — Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that the Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Tsukuba, Japan) has deployed Force10 E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a computing cluster designed for data-intensive computing.
“Ethernet provides high-performance cluster communications, and is interoperable with the wide area network,” said Mr. Satoshi Sekiguchi, director of the Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) at AIST. “And 10-Gigabit Ethernet provides high bandwidth for replicating large-scale databases, making it possible to share the large-scale data efficiently. We deployed the Force10 E-Series switch/router because it has the performance and scalability we needed for our cluster solution.”
The primary objective of the GTRC is to perform research on Grid technology in areas of high performance computing, networking, database, and applications. The GTRC utilizes a high-performance computing system and large-scale databases to accelerate the dramatic advancement and systemization of grid technology. The Grid Datafarm project at GTRC provides a parallel cluster-of-cluster file system with online petascale storage, scalable I/O bandwidth, and scalable parallel processing by exploiting local I/O in a grid of clusters with tens of thousands of nodes.
About AIST
On April 1, 2001, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (the new AIST) began operations. The AIST is a newborn research organization that comprises 15 research institutes previously under the former Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (the former AIST) in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Weights and Measures Training Institute. The new AIST is Japan's largest public research organization with many research facilities and around 3,200 employees in all. For more information, please visit http://www.aist.go.jp/.
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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