[yellowdog-announce] Mellanox Signs Terra Soft as InfiniBand Reseller: Press Release 2003 12/31

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MELLANOX SIGNS TERRA SOFT AS INFINIBAND RESELLER

Loveland, Colorado -- 31 December 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to 
announce a formal reseller relationship with Mellanox, leading supplier of 
InfiniBand semiconductors.

Terra Soft now provides turn-key HPC clustered solutions that include 
InfiniBand switches, host and target channel adapters. Coupled with IBM 
970-based Apple G5 and Xserve RAID, Terra Soft also offers pre-configured 
data storage solutions.

Mellanox Technologies has delivered more than 100,000 InfiniBand ports over 
two generations of 10Gb/sec InfiniBand devices. Current technologies provide 
eight times the performance of ethernet and more than three times the 
performance of proprietary interconnects. The recent Virginia Tech 
installation of 1100 nodes gained world-wide attention for the cost-effective 
means of building the third fastest ranked cluster in the world. Through 
Terra Soft, the LANL Visualization Research Lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
will incorporate Mellanox InfiniBand into an existing Apple G5 cluster.

Mellanox InfiniBand offers:
	 - Dual 10Gb/s InfiniBand 4X Ports
	 - IBTA v1.1 Compatible Design
	 - Support for Millions of Queue Pairs
	 - Large On-chip InfiniBand Port Buffers
	 - Low Latency Transport
	 - Memory Options of 128, 256 or More DDR Memory
	 - InfiniBand Native Layer 4 Hardware Acceleration
	 - Support for Eight Data VLs plus the VL15 Management Lane
	 - Sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) Features
	 - Multicast, Atomic and Large Message Support
	 - Hardware Support for UC, UD, RC and RAW Mechanisms

Terra Soft's COTS Apple G5 compute nodes with Mellanox InfiniBand and Yellow 
Dog Linux offer a highly competitive foundation for large scale clusters 
while maintaining nearly seamless code migration to and from Red Hat-based 
x86 systems, reducing cost of adoption and maintenance. Higher density 
form-factors will enable an even stronger price / performance / density / 
power-consumption ratio, increasingly important for large-scale HPC 
facilities.

Mellanox current product offerings include the MTS9600 96-Port Modular 
InfiniBand switch designed to carry clusters from 64 to thousands of nodes 
with low latency through a 1.92 terabit switch.

	Leaf Board Features:
	 - 12 external 4X (10Gb/sec) copper ports enable cluster interconnect
	 - 12-4X internal connections to the Spine
	 - Non-Blocking CBB or Fat Tree Topology

	Spine Board Features:
	 - 24-4X (10Gb/sec) ports routed to the mid-plane
	 - Non-blocking CBB or Fat Tree Topology
	 - LED status indicators for all internal links

	Management Board Features:
	 - Embedded processor with Linux OS accessible via ethernet or serial port
	 - Chassis management bus to all major components
	 - Redundancy option with second management board


About Mellanox
Mellanox is the leading supplier of InfiniBand semiconductors, providing 
switches, host channel adapters, and target channel adapters to the server, 
communications, data storage, and embedded markets. Mellanox InfiniBand 
interconnect solutions today provide over eight times the performance of 
Ethernet, and over three times the performance of proprietary interconnects.

For more information, visit www.mellanox.com.


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading developer of integrated solutions for PowerPC and an 
Apple Authorized Proprietary Solutions Provider. Yellow Dog Linux has boosted 
viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors with support for desktop, 
embedded, and HPC systems with preliminary 64-bit support for Apple G5s. 
Black Lab is an advanced, scalable, HPC cluster build and management suite.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com

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