FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHELSIO SHOWS ORACLE DATABASE RUNNING OVER iWARP RDMA
T3 Unified Wire Runs Unmodified Infiniband Applications At IDF
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters and ASIC solutions, today announced it will demonstrate 10Gb iWARP RDMA Ethernet adapter running an unmodified RDMA application over an Ethernet network. The demonstration will take place this week at Intel Developer Forum (in the OpenFabrics booth #728), at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The demonstration features an Oracle Database using the OpenFabrics API to run indistinguishably over InfiniBand or Ethernet. Chelsio’s adapter, based on the recently announced Terminator 3 (T3) ASIC, shows the power of the Unified Wire to run InfiniBand and Fibre Channel applications with lower latency, higher bandwidth and lower total cost of ownership, in addition to high performance TCP/IP applications.
With this milestone, the T3 heralds the era of Ethernet as a high performance clustering fabric, requiring no changes to existing cluster applications, while bringing in Ethernet’s versatility and ease of use and management.
10Gbps Ethernet is emerging as an important tool in the High Performance Computing industry, as witnessed by the introduction of standardized, fabric-independent programming interfaces, said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation. The 10Gbps demonstration featuring an application running over both InfiniBand and Ethernet showcases the versatility of this solution.
The T3 ASIC is Chelsio’s third generation Ethernet protocol acceleration engine, the first silicon in the industry that integrates NIC, iSCSI, RDMA and TOE with wire virtualization functionality to enable convergence of storage, clustering, and networking applications onto a single unified fabric. T3 introduces remote management and value added features, such as traffic management, line rate traffic classification and filtering, and virtualization on top of the core offload technology. These unique features enable the use of T3 in various embedded applications such as blade servers, video servers, application gateways and performance proxies, server and storage virtualization, SAN arrays, and NAS filers.
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven protocol 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 applications. For more information, visit the company online at http://www.chelsio.com.
About the Intel Developer Forum
In its 10th year, IDF is the premier global technology forum for hardware and software developers to confer on Intel-based platforms, technologies and solutions, and the new usage models they enable. Visit www.intel.com/idf for more information.
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Korana Stewart
Chelsio Communications, Inc.
408-962-3635
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