100G InfiniBand Connects Supercomputers across Continents

Obsidian Strategics and Singapore's A*STAR Computational Resource Centre are pioneering long-distance, 100G InfiniBand as a means of interconnecting geographically distributed supercomputers. A demonstration planned for this week's SC14 conference in New Orleans aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using the technology for global supercomputer collaboration. The key is to transmit RDMA over transcontinental distances. The demo will show real...

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Facebook's New Data Center Architecture

Facebook's Alexey Andreyev outlined a new data center switching architecture deployed at the company's new facility in Altoona, Iowa. In a blog posting, Andreyev writes that while its previous data centers have been built with a hierarchically oversubscribed system of clusters, Facebook set out to make its newest data center into a single, high-performance network for the whole building. The new design is characterized by small, identical "server...

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Ericsson Forecasts 3-5% Growth, Announces Cost Cutting

Ericsson is projecting the total addressable market it serves to grow at a CAGR of 3-5% from 2013-2017, with its own target at or above these levels. Ericsson's growth will be supported by a CAGR of approximately 10% in 2013-2017 in targeted areas. At its Capital Markets Day last week in Stockholm, Ericsson said it aims to reduce its operating costs by SEK 9 billion, with full effect during 2017, with a restructuring cost of SEK 3-4 billion.  To...

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Mellanox Delivers EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet Adapter

Mellanox Technologies introduced its ConnectX-4 single/dual-port 100Gb/s Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter. Mellanox’s ConnectX-4 VPI adapter delivers 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100Gb/s throughput supporting both the InfiniBand and the Ethernet standard protocols.  It can connect any CPU architecture – x86, GPU, POWER, ARM, FPGA, etc, Performance is listed at 150 million messages per second with latency of 0.7usec. The new adapter...

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Wilcon Deploys Ciena Packet/Optical in SoCal

Wilcon, a provider of fiber optic network infrastructure in Southern California, is using Ciena’s converged packet-optical and packet networking platforms to offer scalable Ethernet and wavelength services.  Wilcon targets industry professionals and production houses from San Diego to Los Angeles. It fiber network connects major data centers, colocation facilities, enterprise locations and wireless communications sites across the region....

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Xilinx Announces 25G Ethernet IP for FPGAs

Xilinx announced low latency 25G Ethernet IP for FPGAs aimed at data center switching. The low latency 25G Ethernet MAC and PCS LogiCORE IP solution supports the new 25G Ethernet Consortium specification and will be aligned with the industry's continuing advancements in next-generation processors, which are doubling their performance for tomorrow's data center servers. Xilinx is demonstrating the 25G Ethernet MAC and PCS LogiCORE IP solution at...

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CityFibre Signs EE and Three UK

CityFibre has signed a long-term national framework agreement to provide dark fiber to mobile network operators EE and Three UK, along with their infrastructure joint venture, Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL). The deal will see CityFibre deploy dark fiber backhaul connections to mobile masts across both operators’ networks. CityFibre operates fiber networks in 57 UK towns and cities.  The company has begun four Gigabit City projects...

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NEC Debuts Cloud Service for Car Dealerships

NEC introduced a cloud service aimed at car manufacturers and dealerships expanding throughout emerging markets. The idea is to help car manufacturers implement management systems in dealerships quickly and at low cost for sales and maintenance functions. The service is able to collect and analyze dealership management data and provide it in a report format for the companies that oversee dealerships.  "This innovative new service utilizes...

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