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March 17, 2010
Award-winning "Large Data" program enters Transition Phase

Obsidian's Longbow X100 and C100 devices are critical enablers of the US Government's "Large Data" Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD) program, which has met and exceeded its operational requirements during its extended four-year Evaluation Phase. The JCTD has now progressed to its Transition Phase, as explained in this document delivered by the program's Technical Manager from the Naval Research Laboratory. more

October 31, 2006
Success Stories: Obsidian Research Corporation

Obsidian Research Corporation is off to a running start in expanding the distances over which supercomputers and computer clusters exchange information at break-neck speeds. more

July 26, 2006
Long Haul InfiniBand Technology: Implications for Cluster Computing

The Obsidian Longbow offers an effective high-bandwidth, low latency method of linking InfiniBand networks over long haul networks. more

January 13, 2006
Is InfiniBand poised for a comeback? (Part 2)

Obsidian has developed a 2-port, 1U box called Longbow XR that encapsulates InfiniBand traffic in a variety of WAN links. In one demonstration, it linked remote clusters over OC192c SONET networks at up to 6,500km. more

November 14, 2005
InfiniBand makes a comeback

Obsidian Research Corp., based in Canada, is working on fixing this problem. The startup's two-port, 1U box called the Longbow XR, encapsulates InfiniBand traffic in a variety of WAN links. The technology promises to link large clusters across geographic distances over existing networks. It's one to watch, analysts say. more

November 11, 2005
Obsidian Extends InfiniBand

A tiny Canadian startup has launched itself out of a storage company and grabbed a couple of contracts with the U.S. government to develop long-range InfiniBand. more

November 10, 2005
High-Speed Links Head for Mainstream

... at least one startup, Obsidian Research, will claim a breakthrough in extending InfiniBand technology to support data replication on WANs. more