The success of Verari Systems’ Infiniband enterprise computing clusters in the market is driving the demand for native InfiniBand attached storage and has lead to Verari Systems’ Unified System Area Network.

InfiniBand, with features such as 10Gb/sec performance, low latency, remote direct memory access (RDMA) and kernel bypass that enabled InfiniBand to excel as a high performance standard for processor to processor communications, also enhance processors to storage communications. Verari Systems, InfiniBand based System Area Networks include the bandwidth, features and scalability to enable the same unified interconnect to serve both purposes; message passing.

Verari Systems’ InfiniBand System Area Networks unify the data center delivering a converged communications, clustering and storage interconnect; thereby simplifying management and lowering both capital and operational expenses.

Verari Systems' InfiniBand solutions are architected to provide balanced performance across the complete System Area Network including processors, latency, bandwidth system resources and storage. Verari Systems is uniquely qualified and experienced in delivering complete InfiniBand System Area Network solutions that include BladeRack clusters, MPI software and native InfiniBand attached storage solutions.

Many parallel applications such as simulation and modeling are compute and communication intensive. These applications must perform millions of calculations and then exchange intermediate results before beginning another iteration. To maximize processor performance, this exchange of data must be fast enough to prevent the compute processors from sitting idle, waiting for data. Consequently, the faster the processors, the greater the bandwidth required and the lower the latency that can be tolerated. In addition, different applications stress different aspects of the computing system. Verari Systems’ InfiniBand solutions are designed to balance the requirements of the applications and match memory, I/O and interconnect performance with computing power to maximize processor utilization.

A weakness in CPU, memory, I/O and interconnect performance results in a potentially degradation in efficiency and overall cluster performance. For parallel applications the I/O subsystem will usually be tasked with both clustering MPI and storage traffic often resulting in the inability to keep the CPUs fully utilized. The result can be an I/O bottleneck, which limits the overall system performance. Therefore it is critical to architect a platform perfectly balanced in each of these important elements. Verari Systems delivers proven expertise in InfiniBand System Area Network clusters that maximize computing power simply, easily in a highly flexible, cost-effective and efficient enterprise computing environment.