Infiniband Technology & Solutions
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HPC Systems, Inc. offers the best in high speed interconnect technology for today's most demanding applications. We offer fully qualified products designed by our partners pioneering in Infiniband technology.
HPC Systems offers comprehensive Infiniband solutions that includes:
  • Infiniband Channel Adapters: We offer the latest quad data rate (QDR) adapters offering up to 40 Gbps per port. Designed specifically for MPI communication patterns widely used in scientific, seismic, CFD and other HPC applications, our HCA's feature industry's fastest message rate, lowest latency at MPI layer and highest effective bandwidth. Our entire range of high performance servers are optimized to support Infiniband QDR, DDR & SDR adapters at their full performance.
  • QDR Infiniband, DDR Infiniband, Infiniband Cluster
    Model Latency Bandwidth
    QDR 3.5 µS 40 Gb/s
    DDR 3.5 µS 20 Gb/s
    ConnectX QDR 1.2 µS 40 Gb/s
    ConnectX DDR 1.2 µS 20 Gb/s

    * All add-on HCAs are PCIe interface
    * Integrated HCAs are connected via PCIe interface

  • Infiniband Switches: HPC Systems offers the most comprehensive, relevant, flexible & scalable Infiniband switching solutions for HPC clusters of all sizes, from 8 nodes to 256 nodes and more. Our product line includes optimized designs for edge switches, core switches & multi switch cascade configurations with port-to-port switching latency as low as 5 microseconds. Based on the latest scalable switching platform, our 40 Gbps switches offer highest port count, port density, flexibility, low power requirements and RAS features. Switch integrated Subnet management is for small & medium clusters. Host based Subnet management is available for large clusters.

  • Model Switching Capacity Max. Ports
    1U DDR 960 Gbps 24
    1U QDR 2.88 Tbps 36
    7U DDR 11.5 Tbps 288
    10U QDR 17.2 Tbps 288
    14U QDR 25.9 Tbps 432
    29U QDR 51.8 Tbps 864

  • Scalable Fabric Management: Unique fabric management tools like FastFabric toolset, facilitate easy configuration, fast boot up, status monitoring, management and diagnosis from a single point of control. Routing & management algorithms are optimized for varying cluster sizes. All components are optionally available with automatic failover and redundancy. Our integrated tools makes it easy for you to validate the system configuration.

  • Optimized Host Software Stack: All our Infiniband clusters fully support Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software stack for maximum compatibility, performance and best value. In addition to OFED, HPC Systems Infiniband products support production quality, optimized Infiniband host stack like QLogic Fabric Suite. Open-MPI, vendor supplied MPI, MPICH2 and other MPI implementations are optimized based on customer requirements.

  • Infiniband User Services: HPC Systems offers the following add-on services for our Infiniband users:
    • Cluster management and monitoring
    • Application porting, optimization & performance tuning
    • Factory integration of multiple MPI implementations
    • Factory integration with job scheduler
    • Infiniband topology design services - bandwidth optimized, latency optimized, best value, best performance
    • Infrastructure upgrade & modernization