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Customers
Quadrics' products have been selected by the world's leading vendors and integrators as well as major Supercomputing Centres such as Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory.
Click here to see testimonials from some valued Quadrics customers. |
CEA
CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.
Tera-10, the new supercomputer of CEA, is a 602 nodes connected with three rails of Quadrics' high-performance QsNetII network.
"Our simulation program requires outstanding performance from the network interconnecting the nodes of such a large machine, especially in terms of latency and barrier synchronization. Quadrics, who we chose for our previous computer TERA-1, is still today the only one able to meet such a challenge." Jean Gonnord, Numerical Simulation & IT program director at CEA/DAM
For more information see: www.cea.fr |
ETHZ
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich is a science and technology university with an outstanding research record, one of the top research centers in the world.
Gonzales, is a 288 dual-processor HPC cluster connected with Quadrics QsNetII which provide ETHZ with a reliable and robust cluster for their capacity/capability environment.
Jürgen Winkelmann, Head of System Services at ETH Zurich said "An essential aspect for choosing Quadrics QsNet as the high-speed interconnect for this system was reliability, performance and robustness for an production environment. Quadrics technology combines best performance in latency and bandwidth, a robust MPI production software environment and scheduling software for managing a large user base."
For further information see: www.id.ethz.ch |
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security.
9 out 11 Intel™ systems installed at LLNL use Quadrics. Thunder is a highly integrated, well-balanced capability compute resource with 1,024 nodes, capable of supporting a complex workload consisting of medium (1,024-2,048) and large (2,048-4,004) MPI task count parallel jobs for unclassified Multiprogrammatic & Institutional Computing (M&IC) simulations.
"The type of Science and Engineering calculations required by Livermore's national security mission require a cluster of this size and a very high bandwidth and low-latency interconnect that provides demonstrable and scalable performance", stated Dr. Mark Seager, LLNL's Assistant Department Head for TeraScale Systems.
For more information see: http://www.llnl.gov |
Sharcnet
SHARCNET stands for Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network. Formally established in 2001, SHARCNET is the largest high performance computing consortium in Canada, involving sixteen universities and colleges across southern Ontario.With the investment from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Ontario government, in 2005 SHARCNET chose HP to install 4 new systems to their cluster of clusters, augmenting its computing network's capacity from 1,000 to 6,000 processors, nearly half of them using Quadrics' interconnect.
"The present installations will increase SHARCNET's capability by over an order of magnitude. We are spending a lot of time building an environment that lets users access these systems effectively so that they can produce quick research results." Hugh Couchman, Scientific Director of SHARCNET.
For more information see: www.sharcnet.ca |
University of Florida
The High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory at the University of Florida focuses on research in advanced computer architectures, networks, systems, services, and applications for critical applications in reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing.
The High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS)Research Laboratory at the University of Florida focuses on research in advanced computer architectures, networks, systems, services, and applications for critical applications in reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and fault-tolerant computing.
The Mu cluster of the High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory comprises 32 Opteron servers connected with Quadrics' QsNetII fast interconnect.
"Mu is the newest and the most powerful Linux cluster of CARRIER system, greatly enhancing its research in high-performance computing, performance analysis and optimization, reconfigurable computing, high-performance networking, and grid computing." Dr. Alan D. George, Director of the High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory.
For more information see: www.hcs.ufl.edu/lab/carrier.php |
Sandia
Sandia is a US national security laboratory involved in a variety of research and development programs.
Red Squall is a 256-way system with 248 Compute Nodes and 8 Service Nodes, dedicated to research purposes to support Sandia's Advanced Simulation and Computing programs. Red Squall nodes are based on the AMD's Opteron® processor and uses the Quadrics QsNetII high-speed interconnect. The system's design was a collaboration between Sandia, Hewlett-Packard, Verari Systems and Quadrics Ltd.
Doug Doerfler, Principal Member of Technical staff in the Computer and Software Systems Department at Sandia National Laboratories, said "Red Squall's primary mission is as an early development platform for Sandia's Red Storm supercomputer and we wanted the industry's highest performance interconnect for Red Squall. We found that our applications scale better with Quadrics' QsNetII interconnect than any other HPC interconnect on the market at this time."
For more information see: http://www.cs.sandia.gov/ |
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory, managed by the University of California. The Laboratory is one of the largest multidisciplinary science institutions in the world.
ASC Q, the biggest Quadrics system at LANL, deploys 2 rails of Quadrics QsNet and spans over 2000 nodes.
John Morrison, CCN Division Leader:
"Very integral to Q is the Quadrics dual-rail switch interconnect, which uses a fat-tree configuration. The final switch system will include 6144 Quadrics PCI adapters and six 1024-way Quadrics federated switches, providing high band-width (250 Mbytes/s/rail) and low latency (~5 us). The Quadrics network enables high-performance file serving within the segments".
For more information please see: http://www.lanl.gov |
Pennsylvania State University
Quadrics worked with the Pennsylvania State University in building its high-performance computing cluster, Lion-XL, to further the research computing endeavors of scholars from a variety of departments and disciplines.The Lion-XL cluster at PSU consists of a total 176 Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers.
"Quadrics is a major vendor of high-speed interconnect technology, a crucial element in building scalable and well-balanced computational cluster. Larger machines, when properly run, significantly lower the cost of ownership. When it comes to measuring and tuning the performance of real applications as opposed to generic benchmarks, highest performing interconnects are a must for large computational systems." Penn State's Vijay Agarwala, Director of Graduate Education and Research Services (GEaRS) group at Information Technology Services.
For more information see: http://gears.aset.psu.edu |
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