In March, Sun selected Topspin to provide Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet I/O cards that connect SANs and LANs to 10-Gbit/s InfiniBand-based servers. RLX chose Topspin to provide software, hardware, and systems for its IB-enabled blade server for high-performance computing in June (see Sun Circles Topspin and Topspin Teams With RLX for IB).
Topspin, which has 60 employees and is based in Mountain View, Calif., offers two configurations of its switched computing system. The chassis-based Topspin 360 and the slim 1RU Topspin 90 use IB fabric switches with Ethernet and Fibre Channel Gateway modules, and host channel adapter and software.
InfiniBand, and the way we use InfiniBand technology, is alive and well, Ramakrishnan says. The trend today is customers are going after a wire-once platform. They can wire once with InfiniBand and connect the gateways.
Topspin also announced today that the Air Force Combat Climatology Center in Asheville, N.C., selected its server switch as the fabric for its new weather data network. The AFCCC system runs an Oracle 9i RAC database with a Topspin 360 Server Switch, Topspin Fibre Channel gateways, ProMicro servers with Topspin InfiniBand HCAs, EMC Clariion storage, and Texas Memory Systems RamSan 220 solid state storage.
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