The Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has deployed Force10 Networks' E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a computing cluster designed for petascale, data-intensive computing. The 10-Gigabit Ethernet platform will be used for replicating large-scale databases. The Grid Datafarm project at GTRC provides a parallel cluster-to-cluster file system with online petascale storage, scalable I/O bandwidth, and scalable parallel processing by exploiting local I/O in a grid of clusters with tens of thousands of nodes. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Sunday, March 2, 2003
Japan's Grid Research Center Deploy Force10's 10 GigE
Sunday, March 02, 2003
