Leading Suppliers of High Performance Interconnect
Quadrics is a leading supplier and developer of high performance networking products and resource management software. Our software and hardware expertise is behind some of the world's fastest computers.
With a philosophy and proven track record of working in partnership, we are helping to solve the world's most complex technological challenges. Able to call on a long heritage of expertise and the strength of one of Europe's leading corporations, Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica Company, we combine world-leading technology and industry backing with a collaborative approach to doing business. Quadrics is ideally placed to remain at the forefront of supercomputing. |  | |  | QsNetIII, Quadrics' third generation HPC Interconnect
QsNetIII is a multi-stage or 'fat tree' switch network connecting commodity servers. QsNetIII comprises adapters, switches and cables allowing the construction of federated network of up to 4096 nodes. QsNetIII software includes support for HPC programming tools including MPI, Shmem, UPC and Lustre. HPC specific optimizations include low latency, high bandwidth links, adaptive routing, hardware barrier and broadcast support. QsNetIII is particularly suited to large simulation programs that require the combination of outstanding network performance and 24*7 production execution.
Technical Papers and presentations on Quadrics QsNetIII technology | 
QsNetIII components photos | | | Quadrics Customer Focus: UC San Diego
GreenLight, a project run by the University of California, San Diego aims to measure the energy efficiency of new technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) and their impact on cluster capacity and efficiency - and reduction of energy costs.
"The Quadrics TG201 24-port 10GiGE switch is a full-bisection bandwidth switch that enables us to richly connect the Greenlight Instrument into campus research networks,"said Philip Papadopoulos, a San Diego Supercomputer Center scientist and co-PI on the GreenLight project. "We are driving DWDM optics directly from the switch to support as much as 80Gbit/sec on a single fiber pair."
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