GSI selects Foundry Networks to power particle accelerator HPC network

Foundry Networks, a provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and web traffic management services, has announced that the Germany-based Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung institution has selected its computing networking system.

Foundry said that its 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE) switching system for the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung's (GSI) particle accelerator network and facility allows wire-speed handling of the enormous volume of data resulting from experiments with the GSI's own particle accelerator and with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.

GSI has decided on Foundry's networking system to ensure congestion-free communication for its large group of computing and data nodes. Foundry's BigIron RX-32 Layer 2/3 backbone switch was capable of fulfilling these extreme switching capacity demands through port density. The switch delivers maximum flexibility and throughput, with up to 1,536 ports of GbE or 128-ports of 10GbE in a single chassis at wire-speed, according to Foundry.

Mathias Munch, responsible for the IT infrastructure at the GSI, said: GSI is a high-technology institution that puts extremely challenging demands on its network Foundry's advanced switching technology is able to meet our unique performance needs. We have also been very satisfied with the support services provided by Foundry Networks and our system integrator Pan Dacom.

Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager of high-end and service provider systems business unit at Foundry, added: The solution's unprecedented density, scalability and wire-speed capabilities will help maximize the power of the high-performance computing (HPC) network while allowing class-leading total cost of ownership and energy and space efficiency.

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