Force10 wins fans with rocket scientists

By Phil Hochmuth, NetworkWorld.com, 04/19/04

NASA is using Force10 Networks' E300 switch for a clustering project at its Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The switch will be deployed in the organization's Earth and Space Data Computing Division (ESDCD), where it will interconnect several high-speed server clusters for computer-simulated research.

The ESDCD is NASA's supercomputing arm, which manages IT infrastructure for all of NASA's high-performance computing needs. NASA says it chose the Force10 box for its high Gigabit port density and fault-tolerance capabilities, which will allow NASA to increase its research computation activities, while doing this more cost effectively.

The E300 is Force10's smallest chassis, which supports 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports or one 10-Gigabit Ethernet port per line-card slot, and up to 6 line card slots per chassis. A total of 72 Gigabit, or 6 10G ports are the box's total capacity.

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