QLogic Adapters Set Performance Record
QLogic Adapters Set Performance Record
September 12, 2008: QLogic has achieved world-record performance with its new DDR InfiniBand adapters, cementing its reputation for performance in parallel computing and cluster environments.
Based on TrueScale ASIC platform, QLogic says its 7200 Series DDR InfiniBand host channel adapters are undisputed performance leaders based on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. benchmark suite, SPEC MPI2007.
The benchmark measures the performance of parallel computing systems and clusters running message-passing interface (MPI) applications. Consisting of 13 different application types, the benchmark suite simulates a mixed workload, with performance across all thirteen applications aggregated to determine overall results.
The QLogic 7200 Series adapters, operating with dual Intel quad-core (E5472) CPUs, QLogic MPI 2.2, across a QLogic 9024 InfiniBand switch, achieved world record performance at 96 and 128 cores, scoring 9.78 and 13.1, respectively.
QLogic says that these scores mean HPC customers can deploy QLogic 7200 Series InfiniBand adapters to achieve superior scalable performance over a variety of different types of applications.
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