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Intel Demonstrates Complete Infiniband Architecture Solutions and Expands Infiniband Industry Programs and Tools
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001--
Wide industry support and momentum behind the InfiniBand*
architecture and product development will be illustrated this week
with four live demonstrations at Intel Developer Forum, Fall 2001 in
San Jose.
Intel Corporation also announced the addition of an InfiniBand
test development kit for hardware vendors and the Intel InfiniBand
Software Optimization Lab, which is available to software vendors
optimizing applications for InfiniBand fabrics. Each of these new
programs will enable vendors to develop and tune InfiniBand
architecture-ready products.
``This is an exciting and pivotal time for InfiniBand technology
development,'' said Tom Macdonald, general manager of the Advanced
Components Division of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group. ``These
demonstrations highlight the tremendous advancement that Intel and the
industry have made toward delivery of InfiniBand products, as well as
the progress software vendors have made in optimizing their
applications for InfiniBand fabrics.''
The InfiniBand architecture is an I/O infrastructure technology
that simplifies and speeds server-to-server connections and links to
other server-related systems such as remote storage and networking
devices. InfiniBand architecture's easier connectivity, reduced
latency, improved bandwidth and enhanced interoperability features
increase the performance, reliability and scalability of Intel
architecture-based servers to meet the growth needs of emerging
e-Business data centers, service providers and server farms.
Three Tier Enterprise Solution Demonstration
In Thursday's IDF Fall 2001 keynote by Gadi Singer, vice president
and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Processors Division, a
demonstration featuring Intel host components, IBM DB2, and SAP will
show a true three tiered application running on existing IBM X-series
hardware. Coupled with switches from InfiniSwitch, QLogic and
OmegaBand, this demonstration will illustrate how InfiniBand
Architecture and Intel-based platforms deliver a true scale out data
center clustered solution.
Managed Fabric Enterprise Solution Demonstration
Illustrating reduced latency and minimized CPU idle time as a
direct result of InfiniBand architecture, this demonstration features
an InfiniBand* solution running over an Intel product based InfiniBand
fabric with the SAS WebHound* Web analysis application. The first
example of integrating InfiniBand specific fabric management into the
HP-OpenView enterprise management suite will also be demonstrated.
This demonstration highlights InfiniBand-enabled products from,
Adaptec, Agilent, Dell, EMC, LSI Logic, OmegaBand, QLogic and
Voltaire.
100 Node Interoperability Demonstration
First staged at Intel's Interoperability Lab, the world's largest
InfiniBand fabric to date features twenty-four vendors and over 100
InfiniBand devices. Shown at the IDF technology showcase, the devices
are connected together in a distributed fabric and featuring video on
demand, Web hosting, and a database cluster running real enterprise
workloads.
Clustering Demonstration
This InfiniBand architecture-enabled solution stack is based on
five standard Dell PowerEdge* servers, each with Intel InfiniBand Host
Channel adapters and software, powered by two Intel® Pentium (R) III
processors, 2 GB RAM and 100 GB disk space per server. The Linux-based
IBM DB2 EEE clustered database supports SAP's BW product. Database
performance and efficiency is expected to improve dramatically as a
result of the underlying InfiniBand fabric. The InfiniBand
architecture will enable industry standard clustered and distributed
databases to provide scalability and failover. Previously, this type
of clustering could only be performed using proprietary interconnect
protocols and hardware. This demonstration can be seen in booth 315 at
the IDF technology showcase.
To accelerate industry development of software optimized for
InfiniBand fabrics, Intel also announced the opening of an InfiniBand
software optimization lab located at Intel's Utah site. The lab will
complement Intel's existing interoperability lab. The lab will allow
software vendors to optimize their applications on Intel InfiniBand
enabled server platforms and solutions.
Intel announced the delivery of test development kits to aid in
development of interoperable InfiniBand products. These are a
supplement to the InfiniBand product development kits that Intel has
been supplying to the industry since February 2001. The kit includes
InfiniBand test agents based on the InfiniBand Trade Association's
test specifications and will assist developers testing their products
for compliance to the InfiniBand architecture specifications. Kits
will ship immediately and will be included in the existing product
development kit.
Intel is one of seven founding companies of the InfiniBand Trade
Association, including Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft
and Sun Microsystems, aiming to deliver products based on a new common
I/O specification to deliver a channel-based, switched fabric
technology that the entire industry can adopt. To generate broad,
industry-wide implementation of an InfiniBand infrastructure, Intel
and other key information technology system suppliers are developing a
variety of building blocks to support servers, switches, software and
connections between storage and networking devices within an
InfiniBand fabric. More than 220 companies have joined the InfiniBand
Trade Association since its launch in 1999. Additional information
about the InfiniBand Trade Association is available at
www.infinibandta.org.
About IDF
Intel Developer Forum is a worldwide program that gives developers
the technical economy. The IDF Fall 2001 conference features a full
slate of sessions and hands-on labs, along with numerous
demonstrations of cutting-edge products and technologies. Industry
participants include software and hardware developers of
communications equipment, servers, PC and handheld clients. Visit
http://developer.intel.com/idf for more on the IDF conferences (San
Jose, Calif., Aug. 27-30; Tokyo, Sept. 26-27; Taipei, Taiwan, Oct.
22-23; Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, Oct. 25-26). For the
latest information on technology developments throughout the year,
visit Intel Developer Update at http://developer.intel.com/update.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading
manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.
Additional information about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/pressroom. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Intel and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel
Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other
countries.
Contact:
Intel Corporation
Diana Wilson, 916/356-8064; During IDF: 916-768-2202
diana.t.wilson@intel.com
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