Brocade will yield network switching for a supercomputer during a Australian National University’s National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) information centre, underneath a partnership announced with Fujitsu.
Fujitsu pronounced it will use Brocade FastIron SX Series switches with 10Gb Ethernet fiber connectors to a supercomputer and ancillary servers. Fujitsu will also use 1GbE connectors to 100 Brocade FastIron WS Series switches for complement government and monitoring devices.
The NCI information centre is approaching to be finished in Oct 2012, while a Fujitsu supercomputer is approaching to be operational in Jan 2013.
The Canberra-based supercomputer is approaching to be a largest x86 high-performance supercomputer (HPC) designation in a southern hemisphere. It could theoretically run adult to 1.2 PetaFlops per second. The supercomputer is approaching to be used for investigate in areas including meridian and weather, physics, astronomy, geosciences, chemistry and modernized services.
Fujitsu chose Brocade as it “felt that a switching capability was proven in identical tellurian HPC environments and a pricing pattern represented value that was good forward of other offerings in a market,” pronounced Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand conduct of strategy, Phil McCormack.
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