Company Type: General Member
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| Founded in 1994, Myricom, Inc., is a leading global supplier of high-performance networking solutions: network-interface cards (NICs), switches, and associated software. Myricom's Myri-10G products are standards-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet, fully interoperable with the 10Gb Ethernet products of other companies. Myri-10G NICs deliver wire-speed performance for conventional TCP/IP applications, and also have optional software distributions with firmware for low-latency, video, and other specialized applications. Myri-10G switches scale economically to thousands of ports.
Myricom products are used in many thousands of customer sites in more than 50 countries, including in many BladeCenter clusters. For example, the famous MareNostrum blade cluster at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center uses Myrinet-2000 adapters and switches to connect 2,560 blades. Myricom has been shipping Myri-10G HSECs for the BladeCenter-H since 2006. These HSECs are bundled with software support for all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and VMware ESX. For more information, please visit www.myri.com.
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Blade server-oriented products from Myricom Inc
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Product Description
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| Subsystem - Cluster Interconnect
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Myricom Myrinet-2000 Switch Family
The Myrinet-2000 switch product family is recommended for clusters with 128 or more hosts, or that may grow to this size. These are the new but proven switches that are used, for example, in the MareNostrum cluster, #4 in the Nov-04 TOP500 list, 2282 IBM JS20 BladeCenter hosts plus 82 additional switch connections to file servers. These products are highly modular, and include a complete set of enterprise features.
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| System - Cluster Interconnect
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Myri-10G High Speed Expansion Card (HSEC) for the IBM BladeCenter H - 2 network ports for failover (10Gb/s throughput)
Myricom, the company that pioneered high-performance cluster interconnect, is now shipping Myri-10G products, a convergence that leverages 10-Gigabit Ethernet technology into the HPC world, and HPC techniques into the Ethernet world.
The new Myri-10G solutions are 10-Gigabit Ethernet from Myricom, and more. Myri-10G’s Myrinet extensions open a broader universe of system solutions than Ethernet alone can provide.
In Ethernet mode with the bundled drivers for Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, or FreeBSD, Myri-10G network-interface cards (NICs) deliver maximal performance at minimal cost, and are fully compliant with Ethernet standards. Connect the NIC port to your 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch and you’ll see near-wire-rate TCP/IP and UDP/IP throughput (9.7-9.9 Gbits/s).
The broader software support for 10-Gigabit Myrinet and Low-Latency 10-Gigabit Ethernet is MX (Myrinet Express). Connect the NIC to a 10-Gigabit Myrinet switch or to a low-latency 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch, and MX unleashes the capabilities of a network that supports the same software interfaces as Ethernet, plus low-latency, kernel-bypass communication using MPI and Sockets APIs. Also, 10-Gigabit Myrinet is interoperable with 10-Gigabit Ethernet for connections to IP networks (grids) and storage.
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| Subsystem - Cluster Interconnect
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Myri-10G High Speed Expansion Card (HSEC) for the IBM BladeCenter H - 4 network ports for performance and failover (20Gb/s throughput)
This HSEC contains two independent PCI Express x8 devices that connect to Link A and Link B of the PCI Express connector in IBM BladeCenter H blades. Each of the two interfaces (Lanai-Z8ES chips) has two ports. Either port of an interface can carry traffic at 10Gb/s, but not at the same time. Together, the two interfaces can carry network traffic at rates approaching 20Gb/s.
If both interfaces are using the bundled Myri10GE Ethernet software distribution, traffic can be combined using Ethernet link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad, also called port aggregation, trunking, teaming, NIC bonding, etc.). Between blades with sufficient memory bandwidth, the netperf TCP_STREAM test shows a bandwidth with link aggregation of 19.82 Gb/s with a 9KB MTU, and 18.95 Gb/s with a 1500B MTU. If both interfaces are using the optional MX-10G software distribution, traffic can be combined using MX NIC bonding, resulting in an MX or MPI unidirectional data rate greater than 2.4 GB/s. It is also possible for the two interfaces to use different firmware and drivers.
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