"One Wire" Cluster Computing Interconnect Solutions

QLogic offers the most comprehensive and flexible interconnect fabric solutions on the market. This offering combined with the industry's only Fabric Management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot a fabric in minutes, helps to satisfy the growing demand for high-performance computational clusters and grids. Whether designing automobiles, evaluating financial portfolio risk, performing geophysical modeling for oil and gas exploration, or performing weapons research, QLogic products can improve both the performance and economics of high performance cluster and grid networks.

QLogic’s InfiniBand based products enable computing clusters and grids to be constructed using industry-standard server, blade server, and storage device building blocks. The high bandwidth, low latency, multi-protocol characteristics of InfiniBand, coupled with QLogic’s patented Fibre Channel and Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) technology, allows these building blocks to be interconnected via a “single wire,” virtual, 10 or 20Gbps high-performance interconnect fabric. Network performance, fabric flexibility, and computing resource utilization are all improved when incorporating QLogic products into your network.

Our comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio includes Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors, Edge Fabric Switches, Host Channel Adapters (HCA), and a complete software suite to install, operate, and maintain your high performance interconnect fabric.

The QLogic SilverStorm 9000 family of Multi-Protocol Fabric Directors is the most highly integrated cluster computing interconnect solution available. An ideal solution for High Performance Computing (HPC), database clustering, and grid utility computing applications, the 9000 Fabric Directors are designed to maximize cluster and grid computing interconnect performance while simplifying and reducing the cost of operating a data center.