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Force10 Networks Powers SCinet; Korean National Supercomputing Center Relies On Force10 Networks Switch/Routers To Build One Of The World?s Largest Supercomputers

Force10 Networks, a pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, has announced that its Reliable Networking product portfolio, including the TeraScale E1200 switch/router and the S2410 data center switch, is powering SCinet, the high performance network built for the SC07 conference. Force10 switches and routers deliver the reliability, network control and scalability that are required to ensure always-on access in high performance computing and networking environments. The Force10 TeraScale E1200 will support 44 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in SCinet for Bandwidth Challenge entries as well as for exhibitors that require high utilization, non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet links for booth demonstrations. With robust support for Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing functions, the TeraScale E1200 is being utilized in a variety of capacities within the show network. Force10 is also providing four S50 access switches for the SCinet network operations center (NOC) and the Cluster Challenge. The Force10 S2410 will demonstrate interoperability in the new low latency Open Fabrics/RDMA infrastructure that is part of SCinet this year. This infrastructure allows exhibitors to leverage InfiniBand and low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, including the S2410, for clustered computing, server-to-server processing, visualization and file system access to attached storage. With Infiniband-like switching latency of 300 nanoseconds, the S2410 enables organizations to gain the efficiencies of Infiniband while capturing the cost and management benefits of Ethernet in high performance clustered environments. In addition to demonstrating interoperability of the S2410 in the low latency Open Fabrics infrastructure, Force10 will also demonstrate interoperability with Finisar's Laserwire solution, a low cost plug and play interconnect. Laserwire requires nearly 95 percent less power than 10GBase-T, resulting in lower cooling requirements. The Force10 S2410 supports 24 line-rate ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, allowing organizations to efficiently connect directly to 10 Gigabits per second servers. Together, the Force10 S2410 and the Laserwire interconnect enable organizations to cost effectively optimize high performance computing resources. In a seperate annoucement Force10 Networks has announced that the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea's national supercomputing center, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S2410 data center switch to build a massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer with a peak performance of 250 Teraflops or 250 trillion calculations per second. With four Force10 TeraScale E1200s at the core of its supercomputer, KISTI is supporting 240 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports to interconnect more than 3,000 nodes and provide scientists across the country with the computing resources they require to advance research on a diverse range of topics. As the core of the network

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