Mellanox Provides Storage Networking for University of Colorado

Mellanox Technologies has announced that its end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products provide high-performance server and storage networking for the new University of Colorado at Boulder Dell-based 1,368-node cluster. According to the company's news release, the new cluster ranks #31 on the June 2010 TOP500 list of supercomputers with peak performance of 152Tflops and an efficiency rating of 86 percent.

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"Scientist and researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Colorado at Denver and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will work together on research topics in biotech life sciences and earth sciences such as atmospheric chemistry, climate, cloud physics and storms, weather hazards to aviation, and interactions between the sun and Earth. Scientists are looking closely in all of these areas at the role of humans in both creating climate change and responding to severe weather occurrences -- all of which require highly-efficient, high-performance computing resources."

Read the Full News Release at Market Watch