FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OSAKA UNIVERSITY SELECTS CHELSIO’S 10GB ETHERNET
Unified Wire Enables Network Convergence For Clustering, Storage and IP Traffic Over Single Ethernet Infrastructure
SUNNYVALE, CA, NOVEMBER 15, 2006 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Storage Accelerator adapters and ASIC solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Osaka University to equip all of its campuses with 10GbE T3 Unified Wire Technology to enable the convergence of the university’s clustering, storage, and networking infrastructures onto a single Ethernet network.
The 700 node network is spread geographically across several buildings and campuses at Toyonaka and Suita. It effectively integrates the university’s storage and networking infrastructures in a seamless, routable fashion. This allows distributed computing resources to be re-tasked during non-peak time to form a large cluster for supercomputing applications. Chelsio’s S310e Unified Wire adapters, which provide line rate performance over long distances, as well as low latency for clustering applications, allow the leveraging of infrastructure investments to provide a very compelling ROI.
Our initial plan was to consider InfiniBand. However, since we have a dispersed campus with direct wide area access requirements we determined that InfiniBand cannot fulfill our requirements, so we switched to Ethernet and evaluated the leading solutions available. Only Chelsio was able to deliver the high bandwidth, low latency, unified solution to allow future proofing our installations, said Manabu Higashida, assistant professor of Cyber Media Center (CMC). We are also planning to move from our current 4Gb Fibre Channel to a 10GbE iSCSI solution and Chelsio was able to address this requirement.
The S310e card used by Osaka for their installation is powered by Chelsio’s T3 Unified Wire Engine. The S310e runs InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and TCP/IP socket applications unmodified, and with its integrated traffic manager, enables the concurrent support of storage, clustering, and networking traffic on an Ethernet fabric. T3 further implements extensive Firewall and I/O Virtualization capabilities, allowing per-connection traffic filtering, steering and rate control.
Osaka University has shown great vision by selecting Chelsio’s Unified Wire as an interconnect technology. They are able to not only upgrade to the next generation of Ethernet technology, but also to lay the groundwork for retiring the legacy fabrics while satisfying the constraints of the university’s budget. In addition, they have deployed a distributed supercomputing infrastructure without additional investment, thereby compounding the already large ROI. This is the model for clusters where the possibility exists of re-tasking the off-peak hours for storage or supercomputing applications, said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. The combination of 10GbE performance, and the unification of all traffic types, has finally enabled IT managers to standardize on the ubiquitous Ethernet fabric without performance penalties.
S310e is in production now. S310e is a single-port PCI-Express x8 10Gb Ethernet solution for high end storage applications. It is offered bundled with a fully commercial grade Linux iSCSI Target.
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven Unified Wire acceleration technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards with protocol offload, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing and storage applications. For more information, visit the company online at http://www.chelsio.com.
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Chelsio Contact:
Korana Stewart
Chelsio Communications, Inc.
408-962-3635
korana@chelsio.com
Osaka University Contact:
Shinji Shimojo, Ph.D.
Professor (Director)
Osaka University, Cybermedia Center
+81-6-6879-8800
shimojo@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp
Media Contact:
Tim Helms
Helms Communications, Inc.
925-606-6936
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