DRESDEN, Germany, June 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- International Supercomputing Conference -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing, announced it is leading the industry by passing the 40,000 mark for DDR InfiniBand ports shipped. At ISC, QLogic is showcasing its end-to-end portfolio of Double Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand networking products. QLogic has been delivering a full offering of DDR products for over a year and will be demonstrating this hardened end-to-end configuration at the International Supercomputing Conference this week. The end-to-end portfolio is designed for HPC clusters in which the performance of the cluster interconnects can define overall application performance. High-bandwidth, low-latency DDR switches and HCAs from QLogic are combined with powerful, easy-to-use management tools to form HPC networking solutions that are faster and easier to deploy. QLogic will also be showcasing gateways which provide connectivity between InfiniBand and 4Gb Fibre Channel SANs as well as 10Gb Ethernet Networks. A single card installed in an InfiniBand switch from QLogic provides hundreds of servers in HPC clusters with access to storage in Fibre Channel SANs or Ethernet Networks.
"There has been major growth in the number of HPC users around the world, but system administrators are deploying solutions that are splintered across many different product offerings," said Earl Joseph, program vice president, High-Performance Systems, IDC. "We expect many sites will move toward simplifying their environments by standardizing on fewer solutions. We also expect many sites to explore combining their storage and compute interconnects into a common solution that handles both."
HPC -- The Fastest Growing Server and Storage Segments
According to a recent IDC presentation entitled "HPC Storage Trends," the market for HPC servers has grown faster than all other server markets over the last five years. In 2006, sales of HPC servers surpassed $10 billion and continued a trend of double digit year-over-year growth. IDC projects the HPC server market will exceed $14 billion in revenue by 2010. IDC estimates that sales of storage systems in the HPC market totaled $3.9 billion in 2006 and will grow to $5.7 billion in 2010. Increasing demand for storage is being driven primarily by skyrocketing performance gains from HPC servers with rapidly growing processor counts that generate far higher data volumes and traffic than just a few years ago. It is not uncommon for larger HPC sites to produce terabytes of data per week, in some cases per day, and to require storage capacity in the multiple-petabyte range.
The QLogic Network Platform
The QLogic Network Platform is the industry's only end-to-end portfolio of networking products that spans adapters to switches, core to edge, for storage and high performance computing.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high-performance storage networking solutions, producing the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage and HPC networks for Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes adapters, switches and management tools for a variety of network topologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand. 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.
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