Voltaire The Grid Backbone Infini Band CERN Seminar

Voltaire The Grid Backbone™ Infini. Band CERN Seminar Asaf Somekh VP Strategic Alliances June 2006 Strictly Voltaire Confidential - Not to be disclosed outside of Voltaire under

Agenda About Voltaire Products Update Infini. Band – Ethernet connectivity © 2006 Voltaire, All

Voltaire: The Company 2005 Sales: 4 x over 2004, 15 x over 2003 - Over 50, 000 Ports in 2005 Solid Financing - Recent Round: $17 M, Summer 2005 - Sufficient funds to breakeven Global Locations - Business HQ: Boston - R&D Center: Hertzliya, Israel - Sales Offices: San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo - Headcount : 120 © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 3

Deploying Grids Globally Across Industries Manufacturing Oil & Gas Government Entertainment © 2006 Voltaire,

Expanding ISV And Solution Partnerships Server OEMs Management and Scheduling Storage Software Application and

Voltaire Products Summary Grid Directors ISR 9096 - 96 4 X (DDR or SDR) or 32 12 X ports ISR 9288 – 288 4 X (DDR or SDR) or 96 12 X ports Copper and optical support Integrated Gb. E and/or FC ports (up to 144) Full redundancy (PS, FAN, Fabric, Management, . . ) Voltaire ISR 9096 Voltaire ISR 9288 Blade Solutions High performance blade solutions for IBM Blade. Center. H Blade Server Connectivity Solutions © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 6

Voltaire Products Summary ISR 9024 Grid switches - ISR 9024 - 24 port IB (SDR and DDR) - ISR 6000 - Multi-Protocol (IP / FC / IB) Management & Virtualization ISR 6000 - Embedded in switches - Highly scalable Grid management Host software - Unique High-Performance offerings for HPC, Financials, and Storage Grid. Vision™ Management Suite © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 7

Voltaire Top 500 Leadership Largest number of Top 500 Infini. Band sites Broadest and Strongest Channels - Joint Installations with 7 OEMs and Resellers Top Infini. Band Site: NASA Ames #4 Most network-efficient Infini. Band site Interconnect Number of Infini. Band sites doubled from previous list, tripled in a year Infini. Band Proprietary interconnects keep going down Gb. E pushed lower on the list Change from Nov 2004 +200% Gb. E +38% Quadrics -19% Myrinet -23% © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 8

Voltaire Infini. Band = Network Efficiency = $$$ Example: Assumptions: - Cluster Size: 256 Nodes - 2 P Opteron Server Price: $3, 000 - Infini. Band Price/Node: $900 80% Network Efficiency - Myrinet Price/Node $800 65% Network Efficiency - Gb. E Price/Node: $100 55% Network Efficiency Actual Performance TFlops 2 1. 5 1 2 Cost Per TFlop $600 K $500 K 1. 6 1. 4 609 587 507 $400 K Myr Gb. E © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. Myr Gb. E 9

Multi-Protocol Switching Same Switch, Multiple Protocol and I/F Combinations © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights

Voltaire IP Router Unique Capabilities Hardware Configuration and Chassis Management ISR 9096/9288, as well as ISR 6000 chassis are supported - s. RBD is required for holding up to 3 routers (any mix) - s. RBD-D is required for DDR configurations, although the IPR is an SDR device Copper as well as optic-fiber SFPs are supported - IPRs are provided with 4 copper SFPs by default (included in price) Cluster mode is supported (multiple devices per chassis, any mix) Voltaire unique Infini. Band-Ethernet Silicon Link aggregation © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 11

Voltaire IP Router Unique Capabilities Networking Management Centralized management – single point representation - Feedback from the field leads to an improved mechanism - in development CLI and GUI based management support - Including full TFM (Traffic Flow Management) and partitioning support - Click on Routers launches their VDM Automated configuration and application transparency by cluster learning and ARP Proxy Monitoring - management access to programmable hardware classification counters (CLI) © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 12

Healthcare Grid Data from Hospitals WAN Router Voltaire Grid Director ISR 9096 TCP/IP Native Infini. Band Storage with Falcon. Stor IPStor i. SER Local Users IPo. IB SDP Application Servers © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. IPo. IB RDS Infini. Band VTL Oracle 10 g RAC Cluster 13

32 Gb Ethernet Connectivity with Infini. Band Upper tier blocking (over-subscription) factor = 5: 1 Node to node hops (worst case) = 9 Multiple trunks of 4 x 1 Gb. E IP Router 16 Gb. E Links IP Router ISR 9288 IP Router 16 Gb. E Links IP Router 48 4 X links to each lower tier ISR 9288 ISR 9288 … … … 240 4 X links to 120 compute nodes 240 4 X links to 120 compute nodes © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. ISR 9288 … 194 4 X links to 55 compute nodes + 42 4 X links to 90 storage nodes 14

TITECH Grid - Protocols 300 Optical links 650 16 -Core Nodes Each with 2 HCAs MPI (MVAPICH) Lustre i. SER Stretching over 3 floors NFS 1 PB Infini. Band Storage with Lustre Legacy NAS Storage © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 15

Enabling High Performance Commodity Storage with i. SCSI RDMA (i. SER) and Infini. Band Performance 900 MB/s i. SER Target BOM Qty Cost Sum Target platform (PC) 1 $1 -2 K SATA drives 16 $0. 7 * GB 16*300 GB*. 7 = $3. 4 K SATA RAID Adapter 1 -2 $300 -600 Infini. Band Adapter 1 $500 Commercial grade target 1 $2 K -5 K $2 K-5 K (config dependent) Total (4. 8 TB) 400 MB/s FC i. SER ~$2 -3/GB Delivering unprecedented cost/performance, leveraging on industry standard components © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. 16

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1, 024 Compute Nodes on A Single Global File System with Voltaire Grid Backbone™ and HP SFS ™ 1, 024 Compute Nodes 4 Login Nodes 2 Admin Nodes 87 Voltaire ISR 9024 Grid Switches 4 Voltaire ISR 9288 Grid Directors Client Throughput: 350 MB/s 12 HP SFS OSS Nodes (Lustre Servers) with 132 TB OSS Throughput 900 MB/s 1 SFS Admin Node 1 MDS Node Fully Non-blocking 10 Gbps Infini. Band Fabric © 2006 Voltaire, All Rights Reserved. Customer: D. O. D US Air Force Project TI-05 18