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posted on 16 June 2008 14:53

Less than a week after Mellanox announced the availability of its 40Gbit/s InfiniBand switch silicon Voltaire has said it will develop a 40Gbit/s/quad data rate (QDR) switching platform based on it.

Voltaire reckons the new silicon enables the design of InfiniBand switches with higher densities, improved scalability and lower latency than current 10 or 20Gbit/s InfiniBand switch offerings.

Asaf Somekh, strategic alliances VP at Voltaire, said: "We are aggressively developing products that enable InfiniBand to remain far ahead of competing interconnect technologies in terms of performance and scalability. 40Gbit/s InfiniBand will address the specific needs of advanced HPC customers who require the highest bandwidths and lowest latencies to drive their applications. ... The 40Gbit/s switches will join our existing 20Gbit/s or DDR InfiniBand portfolio which will continue to be the technology that addresses the performance requirements of the majority of enterprise data centers."

Thad Omura, product marketing VP at Mellanox Technologies, said: "We expect 40Gbit/s InfiniBand to be the interconnect of choice for future multi-Petaflop clusters." 

The first of Voltaire's 40Gbit/s switches is expected to be available in late 2008.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}