[November 17, 2009] HPC Advisory Council Offers 'World's Fastest' 120Gb/s Networking Demo Tweet Nov 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The HPC Advisory Council, an organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, announced the largest demonstration of what the group termed the industry's fastest network during the SC09 conference (Nov.16-20) in Portland, Oregon --120Gb/s InfiniBand over SC09's massive conference network - SCinet. The 120Gb/s demonstration will connect 23 exhibitors on the SC09 showroom floor for demonstrating solutions and technologies for high-performance computing such as MPI application offloads and high-speed visualization that will enable real-time 3D navigation of full-scale automotive CAD models. Coupled with a high-resolution portable immersive system, the demonstration will allow visitors to literally walk in unedited automotive CATIA (Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) models composed of millions of polygons. The following HPC Council member organizations have contributed and are participating in the 120Gb/s InfiniBand SCinet demonstration: AMD, Avago, Colfax Intl, Dell, HP, IBM, InfiniBand Trade Association, Koi Computers, LSI, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Luxtera, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, RAID, Scalable Graphics, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Utah Center for High-Performance Computing, and Voltaire. "Delivering the industry's highest 120Gb/s bandwidth network demonstration at such a large scale would not have been possible without the support of many of the members in the organization," said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. "One of the HPC Advisory Council's missions is to demonstrate world-leading HPC technologies. We are happy to continue and showcase the next generation of HPC systems at SC09 and look forward to future demonstrations, workshops, and continuing the Council's missions through the collaboration between our hardware and software vendors and end-user membership." "With their ongoing worldwide HPC workshops and large ecosystem demonstrations, IDC believes the HPC Advisory Council's efforts around the globe will not only help accelerate the development of HPC technologies, but also broaden the HPC adoption," said Jie Wu, Research Manager, Technical Computing, at IDC. "As more organizations continue to participate in the council's activities and contribute their knowledge and expertise to create best practices in many different areas, it will ultimately benefit the entire HPC community." HPC Advisory Council members include: Ace Computers, Advanced Clustering Technologies, Allinea Software, Altair Engineering, AMD, ANSYS, Appro, Ashley Pittman, ATK Space Systems, Auburn University, Avago Technologies, Bay Microsystems, Blue Ridge Numerics, Centre For Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Cimcorp Informatica, C.S.I.R.O, CD-adapco, Clustercorp, Colfax International, Corning Cable Systems, Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing, DataDirect Networks, Dawning Information Industry, Dell, Dildy Enterprises, Digital Waves, Diglio A. Simoni, Evergrid, Eyescale Software, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, GigaSpaces Technologies, Gnodal, GraphStream, The George Washington University, HCL Infosystems, HP, HPCTech, Ibrix, IBSwitches.com, Inspur, Institute of Network and Information Security, Intel, Interactive Supercomputing, InterSect360 Research, The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT), Kinder Morgan CO2, Kirchhoff-Institute of Physics, Ruprecht-Karls University, Koi Computers, Lamprey Networks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore Software Technology, Locuz Enterprise Solutions Limited, LSI, Luxtera, McGill University, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Microway, University of Minnesota, Montana State University, National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems (NCIC), NEC of America, Netweb Technologies, Network Equipment Technologies, Numerical Algorithms Group, Nvidia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Obsidian Strategics, OCF, Ohio State University, Panasas, ParTec Cluster Competence Center, PCPC Direct, Penguin Computing, Platform Computing, Queen's University, Quellan/Intersil, Quix Computerware, RAID, RNA networks, SGI, Scalable Graphics, Scalable Informatics, ScaleMP, Schlumberger, Scientific Computing, Silicon Mechanics, Simula Research Laboratory, SoftModule, StreamScale, Sun Microsystems, Supermicro, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, System Fabrics Works, Terascala, Texas Advanced Computing Center, The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Transtec, Total E&P Research and Technology USA, T-Platforms, Tycrid, Virginia Tech University, Voltaire, VXtech, University of Wisconsin Madison, W.L. 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