VirtenSys I/O Virtualization Services Aid Deployment of High-Performance Compute Clusters

VirtenSys (News - Alert) Ltd, a provider of next-generation I/O solutions for data centers, reportedly announced that its VIO 4000 I/O virtualization switches allow the deployment of high performance compute clusters with high I/O price/performance and lowest energy usage.

 

The company is the first-to-market with a new class of data center switches that virtualize and share server I/O resources. Virtensys I/O Virtualization switches dramatically reduce IT complexity and expense and establish industry-best I/O price/performance and lowest energy usage for server connectivity.

 

The VIO 4000 switches consolidate, virtualize and share all the servers I/O resources within a rack. It provides the full network and storage connectivity bandwidth to each server, while cutting I/O equipment cost by half and reducing energy consumption by nearly 70 percent. The I/O virtualization switches are based on the native PCI (News - Alert) Express server standards.

 

Also, the VIO 4000 switches provide servers with low-latency and high-bandwidth inter-processor communication (IPC (News - Alert)) for message passing utilizing PCIe interconnects, with no additional cost or performance overhead. Also, they provide applications with access to high-performance, low-latency and low-cost global shared memory for high-speed data caching and processing. Large arrays of local shared solid state drives are also available as raw storage for information logging and file sharing. No changes are required in servers, operating systems or applications to leverage these capabilities.

 

High-performance, low-cost, small footprint and low-power compute clusters can now be built within a single rack. Compute capacity and I/O resources within a cluster can be independently added, deleted and dynamically allocated depending on applications’ needs. Clusters I/O resources are also managed as a single entity, reducing management complexity and costs by more than 60 percent.

 

“We are very pleased to bring this capability to HPC customers. Our VIO 4000 switches are shipping now, and customers can immediately deploy computer clusters with the maximum server performance at the lowest cost and energy consumption levels,” said Ahmet Houssein, president and CEO at VirtenSys, in a statement. “With IT budgets so tight, customers now have more dollars to spend on their compute resources. The demand we have received from customers has been phenomenal.”