DALLAS, July 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it is making high performance computing (HPC),
as part of technical computing, more accessible through the
cloud for clients grappling with big data and other computationally
intensive activities.
A new option from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, will provide
industry standard InfiniBand networking technology to connect
SoftLayer bare metal servers. This will enable very high data
throughput speeds between systems, allowing companies to move
workloads traditionally associated with HPC, such as oil and
exploration and data analytics to the cloud.
"As more and more companies migrate their toughest workloads to
the cloud, they're now demanding that vendors provide high speed
networking performance to keep up," said SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby. "Our InfiniBand support is helping
to push the technological envelope while redefining how cloud
computing can be used to solve complex business issues."
InfiniBand is an industry-standard networking architecture that
delivers high transfer speeds—up to 56Gbps—between compute nodes.
That is the equivalent of transferring data from more than 30,000
Blu-ray discs in a single day. The architecture provides additional
features, contributing to InfinBand's overall
superior reliability, availability, and serviceability over
legacy PCI bus and other proprietary switch fabrics and I/O
solutions.
This new HPC option enables very low latency between bare metal
servers and private clusters of servers with up to hundreds of
compute nodes, making it ideal for applications such as life
sciences and genomics, computer aided engineering, financial
services, electronics design and reservoir simulation. By reducing
latency between bare metal servers in these private clusters
customers can easily manage massive amounts of data faster, more
effectively and efficiently.
"Bringing InfiniBand capability to the cloud is driven by the
growing need for extremely high levels of speed and performance for
scenarios such as HPC and big data", said Philbert Shih, managing director for Structure
Research. "This type of offering will help enable engineers and
scientists to build, compute, and analyze simulations in real time
leveraging hundreds of compute nodes. Being able to share and
analyze data at this speed will only accelerate cloud adoption from
this use case, while making HPC more accessible across a wide
variety of industries."
The introduction on InfiniBand on SoftLayer will especially
benefit customers who are leveraging fully supported, ready-to-run
clusters complete with code name IBM Elastic Storage, IBM Platform
LSF or Platform Symphony workload management. InfiniBand will be
available on SoftLayer through the IBM Platform Computing team,
expected in the third quarter of 2014.
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Press Contacts:
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SoftLayer, an IBM Company
M: 469-394-7274
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