SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM -- QLogic(r) Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today is demonstrating its SANblade(r) QLE2460 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs, the fastest HBAs for the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 Series, along with other members of the Intel IHV Optimization Community at this year's Intel Developer Forum. QLogic is also demonstrating interoperability between its InfiniPath(r) InfiniBand adapters and Ethernet networks running the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.0 for Linux-based data center fabrics.
"The new Dual-Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor-based platform, based on Intel's power-optimized micro-architecture, offers significantly improved performance and greatly reduced power consumption," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation. "Optimizing technologies such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand for the new dual-core platform ultimately enables customers to operate more efficiently and effectively."
In side-by-side testing on the new dual-core Intel Xeon platform, SANblade QLE2460 Series HBAs achieved a dramatic 155,000 I/Os per second per port, 76 percent more than the company's primary competitor which performed at 75,000 I/Os per second per port. The QLogic HBA delivered 780MB/second per port in full-duplex mode on the dual-core Intel Xeon platform, 18 percent higher than the rating achieved by the closest competitor.
"QLogic offers a full suite of networking and storage interconnect products that empower a new generation of grid computing," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "We have been working with Intel to exploit the combined computing power of Fibre Channel and InfiniBand solutions with the dual-core Intel Xeon processor-based platform."
Also optimized for the dual-core Intel platform, QLogic InfiniPath InfiniBand adapters use the unique QLogic HyperMessaging Architecture(tm), which delivers the industry's highest message rate and highest effective bandwidth. InfiniPath supports more than 10 million messages per second, which is dramatically higher than the message rate of any other cluster interconnect.
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About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com.
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