HP marries Cisco's Infiniband switches with clusters and blades
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And clusters made of blades HP has added more Cisco networking gear options to its pre-packaged cluster product line.â¦
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PITTSBURGH, SC2004 SuperComputing Conference, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, announces the PathScale InfiniPath Interconnect.
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Signs deal to resell cluster-related switches that employ the high-speed networking technology.
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Fujitsu Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. said today they have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will help service providers and enterprises build advanced IP networks.
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Brocade Communications Systems Inc. unveiled its 4 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) switch family at Storage Networking World on Monday, a stop-gap
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ is launching two servers using Intel's new dual-core Itanium chip in a bid to gain market traction for the troubled Itanium line. HP's Integrity rx3660 server, with a base price of $10,531, and rx6600 server, which starts at $14,771, will be introduced Thursday and feature Intel's Itanium 2 "Montecito" processor. IntelÂ introduced that processorÂ in July. HP is also offering a Montecito upgrade throughout its existing Integrity line. The industry is watching to see if Montecito will improve Itanium's competitive position against IBM's Power 5 chip architecture and Sun Microsystems' Sparc. It also remains to be seen how many server vendors beyond HP will embrace Itanium. "I would describe this as a marathon," said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing for the Business Critical Server Division of HP, in Palo Alto, California. "It takes a long time to establish a new architecture in the market. It took IBM a long time to establish Power." HP introduced its first Itanium server in 2001. But by the end of 2005, servers based on the processor accounted for less than 1 percent of the market, based on units shipped, according to research firm Gartner, and 85 percent of them were sold by HP. But by another measure, Itanium is growing. Today, close to 9,000 software applications run on Itanium, said Jenkins, up from about 100 in 2003, which gives Integrity broader appeal to enterprise customers. "Customers can't use the server until they have the applications and the application vendors don't want to invest in the applications on that chip until they see the demand for it," he said. Several important software vendors also announced Thursday their support of Integrity running Montecito, including BEA Systems, RSA Security, and Comverse Technology. "HP has been steadily adding to the Itanium portfolio," said Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata. But few other server vendors are following HP's support of Itanium, Haff added. Fujitsu Ltd. announced in August it will introduce a server running Montecito, as did Silicon Graphics. But they are "small players" relative to vendors like Dell, Sun, and IBM, which are not using Itanium. Still, Haff said, Montecito "is a nice upgrade to the Itanium." Integrity is HP's high-end server for business-critical applications. Montecito is the first Itanium design to offer hyperthreading, virtualization and multiple cores, which increase Integrity's performance. The Integrity rx6600 running Montecito performs close to 350,000 transactions per minute (tmp), more than twice the 161,000 tmp of an Integrity running an older version of Itanium, according to tests by the independentÂ Transaction Processing Performance Council. Montecito is also more cost efficient, operating at $2.24 per transaction minute, versus $3.94 on a previous Itanium chip. But skepticism remains. "$2.24 is good but they're still not the most powerful system," said John Clabby, president of the IT research firm Clabby Analytics. "Montecito is an improvement, but it's not a leader and that's what Itanium was supposed to be." The fastest processor tested by TPC is an IBM Power 5. which topped 4 million transactions per minute a with a cost per minute of $2.97, noted Clabby. HP's Jenkins downplays the significance of IBM's performance numbers, noting that most enterprises only need servers that can perform 150,000 to 300,000 transactions per minute. "Four million is a benchmark that doesn't have any relevance other than bragging rights," Jenkins said.
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By Hochmuth, Phil  New stackables support Cisco's IOS Software Activation feature  Cisco last week juiced up its Catalyst switch line with gear that boosts Power-over-Ethernet support, backup power and failover, and 10G Ethernet connectivity at the LAN edge.
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At SC2004 show, Dell and HP plan to unveil servers that can be networked into a single high-performance technical computer.
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To boost performance for high-end users, Dell Inc. is upgrading its high-performance computing clusters by adding support for larger Topspin InfiniBand switches and PCIe host channel adapters.
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NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) has unveiled a blade server powered by the Intel Itanium 2 processor, combining 64-bit computing, InfiniBand capabilities and increased memory, and targeted at the high-performance computing market.
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Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced enhancements to its Catalyst switching product line, and also announced &quot;the industry&#39;s first&quot; Gigabit Ethernet-enabled IP phone.
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In the three months since IBM and Intel opened design specifications for Big Blue&#39;s BladeCenter, more than 100 vendors have signed up to use the information, meaning that end users will soon have access to network switches, adapter cards and other
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems and Hewlett-PackardÂ see the wireless LAN as something that can help the whole enterprise, not just departments. On Tuesday, HP launched a systems integration practice to plan and build wireless LANs as a strategic asset. The practice uses Cisco hardware and software that can support applications such as advanced security, location-based services, voice, and LAN access for guests and visiting contractors. In enterprises, wireless LANs were first set up by individual departments that had specific uses for them, but Cisco and other vendors have been scaling up their offerings for more general deployments. HP, a long-time Cisco partner with enterprise credibility worldwide, will promote and carry out such deployments through its services business. HP will take advantage of Cisco's Light Weight Access Point Protocol, a management protocol that lets enterprises centralize network intelligence. This approach can bring faster deployment of the whole network and simplify management, according to the companies. Over time, HP's experience in putting together Cisco wired networks should help in achieving Cisco's long-term goal of integrating wired and wireless LANs, said Ben Gibson, Cisco's director of mobility solutions marketing. Emerging capabilities of wireless LANs, such as location-based services, will make them useful across enterprises, Gibson said. For example, the networks can be used in conjunction with RFID (radio frequency identification) to keep track of physical assets, he said. In addition, unified messaging systems could use employees' locations as part of presence information, informing other workers whether they were within reach of their desk phones or PCs. The new systems integration practice is available now. The relationship is not exclusive, the companies said.
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Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2, Novell's version of Linux, bundled virtualization software and, for the first time, a pay-per-use policy for server-based Windows.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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(InfoWorld) - On Wednesday, Cisco Systems announced an upgrade of its Catalyst switching portfolio to include 10-gigabit Ethernet uplink and extensive PoE capabilities. The full Class 3 15.4 watt power delivery capability through each port on the device is "an industry first," Cisco said. PoE is a way of powering certain network devices, such as IPÂ phones, through the switch connection rather than plugging them into a nearby main outlet. The PoE capability is backed by Ciscoâs Redundant Power Systems as a recommended network product option. The 10Gb Ethernet capability can be accessed by replacing the Twin Gigabit Ethernet uplink module with a 10Gb TwinGig Converter module to meet changed network service provision needs. A showcase installation of the new solutions would be at Duke University in the U.S., where it would serve a 27,000 node academic network, Cisco said. The new, higher-capacity Cisco 3750-E switches with 10Gb upgrade capability will be deployed to gradually replace or complement some 1,000 Catalyst 3750 series switches already running the university's student, faculty, and administrative networks. A similar upgrade to an academic network was being considered by University College in London and several other institutions in Europe, Cisco officials said. Duke University and other users would most likely use the 10Gb capabilities to deploy video-based applications and services, they said. Cisco has stressed its support for video and live-image applications. The company is aiming to deliver any video format to any device anywhere on any network built with its infrastructure solutions, said Marthin DeBeer, head of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Unit, at the company's Networkers conference in Cannes, France. In a dramatic example of Cisco's recent TelePresence service, De Beer told conference attendees that his assistant at his San Jose office greeted visitors from a large, high-definition flat video screen while physically present in Dallas -- where the employee had moved. Cisco also announced a showcase installation of its Catalyst 3560 and Catalyst 2960 Compact Switches (for deployment outside wiring closets) on a cruise liner being built in Germany for Aida Cruises. The cruise line, affiliated with Germanyâs Lufthansa AG airline, will install a complete telecommunications and multimedia system based on Cisco infrastructure in all passenger cabins and for crew use on the Aida Diva, a vessel to be delivered later this spring. The services on the Aida Diva would be managed centrally by Lufthansa, regardless of where the ship was cruising, using Cisco's remote network management solutions, said Joerg Liebe, director of voice integration products at Lufthansa Systems. The Aida Diva is the first of four vessels Aida Cruises has on order that will be built with state-of-the art multimedia networks installed by Cisco.
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All together now Fujitsu has kicked off a major effort to see its 10Gbps networking gear make its way into blade servers from the likes of HP, IBM, Dell and Sun Microsystems. More broadly, Fujitsu expects increased standardization in the blade market in the near future.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a new generation of blade PCs. This one uses an improved data-transmission protocol to improve performance for high-bandwidth needs, such as streaming video or graphics-intensive applications.