IBM Unleashes New Breed of Hybrid Supercomputers With System Cluster 1350

the Voltaire InfiniBand Pass-through Module for Blades can eliminate the need for intermediate switches and provides direct connections to large core switches that can be long distances from a BladeCenter without sacrificing performance. IBM System Cluster 1350 will also offer ClearSpeed Advance™ accelerator boards, which expands hybrid cluster architecture options. The PCI-X adaptors are designed to improve the performance of many numerically intensive workloads by routing math library routines to the ClearSpeed accelerator board. This acceleration process is transparent to the end user and the application, except for improved speed of calculation.

IBM System Cluster 1350 pricing will vary depending upon specific configuration.

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