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Campus and wide area InfiniBand storage and visualization, native InfiniBand routing

Longbows are part of five demonstrations this year including two applications of InfiniBand over the wide area. Obsidian introduces Longbow Campus for InfiniBand range extension up to 10km and is the first to demonstrate native InfiniBand routing more

Visualize across distance without compromise

Chromium parallel render servers from Tungsten Graphics use Cisco Host Channel Adapters and InfiniBand switches to deliver scalable high-fidelity real-time visualization experiences. The range of Obsidian Longbow Campus devices extends InfiniBand connections, allowing uncompromised visualization up to 6.25 miles (10km) from the render servers more

Native InfiniBand routing hardware

Obsidian's InfiniBand range extension technology highlighted a need for subnet isolation through native InfiniBand routing. Longbow XR demonstrates its full bandwidth InfiniBand routing capabilities when deployed with Mellanox HCAs and switches or QLogic HCAs by streaming data between two servers running in their own subnets more

Remote Columbia InfiniBand visualization

NASA's "Columbia" supercomputer is harnessed by an InfiniBand connection to its "Hyperwall" visualization facility. Using Obsidian's Longbow XR range extension technology, this same InfiniBand link is relayed from California to Supercomputing 2006 through the National LambdaRail 10Gigabit Ethernet WAN more

Native InfiniBand storage over campus and wide area networks

Rackable System's RapidScale parallel storage clusters offer scalable parallel I/O by aggregating native RapidScale SA3100 InfiniBand storage appliances. Obsidian's Longbow Campus and XR platforms deliver fast storage traffic across Campus and wide area networks at full InfiniBand rates with very low latency more