In brief: New Voltaire offerings based on InfiniBand bus

InfiniBand start-up Voltaire last week launched two products that use the next-generation InfiniBand bus. The company announced the ISR 6000 Switch Router and the ISR 9600 InfiniBand Switch Router. The ISR 6000 is a six-port 4x InfiniBand switch with two Gigabit Ethernet router ports and Layer 4 to Layer 7 features. It is enclosed in a 1U-high chassis. The ISR 9600 has as many as 96 4x InfiniBand ports. It also has integrated InfiniBand to IP router modules and redundant power supplies, management modules and fans for fault-tolerant operation. The ISR 6000 starts at $7,000. Pricing for the ISR 9600 has not been set; it is expected to be available in April.

NEC and Stratus Technologies this week will announce an entry-level server, the Express 5800/320lb and ftServer 3300 system, for fault-tolerant, business-critical applications. The 4U, rack-mounted server or pedestal version is designed to run Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating environments. It has dual Intel Xeon processors running at 2.4 GHz and supports as much as 6G bytes of memory. The server contains as many as six PCI slots, embedded 10/100/1000M bit/sec Ethernet and a single Ultra160 SCSI ports. NEC's 320lb and 3300 replaces NEC's 320la and Stratus' ftServer 3200, which was twice the size and performs two to three times slower than the 320lb or the 3300. It consists of four 1U modules that fit in a common backplane. Two of the modules function as CPUs, which can be configured either as one- or two-processor servers. The other two components are I/O modules. The CPU modules operate in lockstep, allowing fault-tolerant operations.

The Express 5800/320lb and ftServer 3300 start at $25,000 and $20,000, respectively.

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InfiniBand start-up Voltaire last week launched two products that use the next-generation InfiniBand bus. The company announced the ISR 6000 Switch Router and the ISR 9600 InfiniBand Switch Router. The ISR 6000 is a six-port 4x InfiniBand switch with two Gigabit Ethernet router ports and Layer 4 to Layer 7 features. It is enclosed in a 1U-high chassis. The ISR 9600 has as many as 96 4x InfiniBand ports. It also has integrated InfiniBand to IP router modules and redundant power supplies, management modules and fans for fault-tolerant operation. The ISR 6000 starts at $7,000. Pricing for the ISR 9600 has not been set; it is expected to be available in April.

NEC and Stratus Technologies this week will announce an entry-level server, the Express 5800/320lb and ftServer 3300 system, for fault-tolerant, business-critical applications. The 4U, rack-mounted server or pedestal version is designed to run Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating environments. It has dual Intel Xeon processors running at 2.4 GHz and supports as much as 6G bytes of memory. The server contains as many as six PCI slots, embedded 10/100/1000M bit/sec Ethernet and a single Ultra160 SCSI ports. NEC's 320lb and 3300 replaces NEC's 320la and Stratus' ftServer 3200, which was twice the size and performs two to three times slower than the 320lb or the 3300. It consists of four 1U modules that fit in a common backplane. Two of the modules function as CPUs, which can be configured either as one- or two-processor servers. The other two components are I/O modules. The CPU modules operate in lockstep, allowing fault-tolerant operations.

The Express 5800/320lb and ftServer 3300 start at $25,000 and $20,000, respectively.

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