Voltaire Offers 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Director Switches and Software for Scale-Out Data Centers

Voltaire, a provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, is rolling out a 40 Gb/s InfiniBand director-class switch, the Grid Director 4700, which offers low latency. This switch, and Voltaire's new advanced management software, Unified Fabric Manager software, provide performance, scalability and ease-of-use for large, high-performance clusters. When used together, the switch and software offer high performance and reliability, high availability and service-level manageability.

Part of Voltaire's 4th generation switch family, the Voltaire Grid Director 4700 features 324 ports of 40 Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity, with the option to double capacity to 648 ports using double-density fabric boards. The double-density fabric boards are the basis for HyperScale architecture, a stackable architecture for building larger configurations into the hundreds and thousands of nodes, with lower latency and greater simplicity. The 19U high Grid Director 4700 has less than 300 nanosecond port-to-port latency to accelerate performance of applications running on server and storage scale-out fabrics. The switch runs a smart distributed software architecture that delivers signal quality, enhanced performance optimization, and resiliency, which are all key challenges in large-scale deployments. Its low 6.5-watts-per-port power consumption makes the switch a greener choice for energy-efficient data centers.